Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food ‘Patis Bakery’ Offers Hot New Kosher Date Spot On The Upper West Side
With Pardes, the boundary-pushing restaurant he ran in Brooklyn, Moses Wendel reinvented kosher for the foodie generation. Now, he’s doing the same for kosher bakeries. Patis, which opened in Manhattan this summer after launching in New Jersey last year, is bringing an artisan touch to kosher baked goods in “what’s not a typically kosher environment,”…
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Food This Modern Jewish Deli Is Committed To Supporting Women And Queer People
A decade since David Sax published Save the Deli, his rallying cry for old-school Ashkenazi food, there’s still much hand-wringing over the disappearing Jewish delicatessen. But a new generation is rebooting the whole deli concept, sometimes in unexpected places with unconventional approaches. Manhattan’s Harry & Ida’s creates Instagrammable hybrids like carrot hot dogs; buzzy Freedmans,…
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Food Where To Book A Rosh Hashanah Restaurant Dinner
If you’re looking forward to Rosh Hashanah dinner – but not necessarily to cooking – fear not. Restaurants around the country are rolling out special menus for the High Holidays this year. Here are some of our favorites. Please note: None of these are kosher. Prices are per person, and don’t include taxes, beverages, or…
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Food The Fascinating Story Behind ‘Russ & Daughters’, On Exhibit Now
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Center for Jewish History (@centerforjewishhistory) on Aug 30, 2019 at 11:45am PDT Delicious, but such tiny portions. That’s the feeling after noshing on “Russ & Daughters: An Appetizing Story”, a compact exhibition that opened this week at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. Russ &…
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The Schmooze Toronto Strip Club Owner Was Also The ‘Best Zaidy You Could Have’
Girls! Girls! Girls! Rabbis! Rabbis! Rabbis! That’s the backstory of one of Toronto’s most colorful characters, who died this week at 84. But David Cooper, who owned the legendary Zanzibar strip club on Toronto’s bustling Yonge Street, was also a hugely successful real-estate mogul — and “the best zaidy you could have”, granddaughter Nicole Cooper…
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Food Toronto’s Newest French Bistro Is Inspired By…The Dreyfus Affair
Pop quiz: What was the Dreyfus Affair? If you’re thinking of the 19th-century case of a Jewish army captain falsely convicted of treason — and a pivotal moment in France’s history — you’re right. But a different Dreyfus affair — lower-case “A” — is unfolding in Toronto, where an ambitious young chef named Zach Kolomeir…
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Food Buenos Aires’ Famed ‘Mishiguene’ Restaurant Is Popping Up In NYC
Opening a Manhattan pop-up when your Buenos Aires eatery, 5,300 miles south, is still one of the hottest tables in town? A little mishugeneh, right? Exactly. Tomas Kalika, the acclaimed chef of “Jewish Diaspora” eatery Mishiguene, will open a temporary branch of his celebrated restaurant this weekend in a Meatpacking District space run by Lexus…
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Food Israeli Cuisine Is More Chic Than Ever, In Chicago’s New ‘Galit’
You’ve won a James Beard Award for your Israeli-accented cooking at pioneering New Orleans eatery, Shaya. How do you top yourself? If you’re Chef Zachary Engel, you open your own restaurant — and earn raves. Galit, Engel’s “Israeli immigrant cuisine” hotspot, opened in Chicago this summer to rapturous reviews – “a Middle Eastern masterpiece”, gushed…
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