Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Wexler’s Deli Spreads Lox Love in Los Angeles
Houston may have Ziggy Gruber, but Los Angeles has its own Deli Man — Micah Wexler, dubbed “the Seth Rogen of chefs” by our own Leah Koenig. More of This Week’s Food News Four Season’s Restaurant’s Jewish Soul Shuka Truck Really Gets Around! Reubens in Berlin and All the Week’s Food News Now, two years…
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Food Shuka Truck Really Gets Around!
We’ll leave it to you to judge whether this is good use of taxpayer shekels. But the Israeli embassy in Bogota reportedly flew down New York’s Shuka Truck — yes, the whole truck — to serve shakshuka on Yom Haaztmaut. The truck normally roams Big Apple streets. More of This Week’s Food News Four Season’s…
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Food Reubens in Berlin and the Week’s Hottest Food News
Newish Jewish deli Louis Pretty gets a shout-out in Travel + Leisure this month as part of a rocking food scene in Berlin. The Kreuzberg eatery’s “German interpretations of American Jewish deli food” like Reubens and matzo-ball soup “typifies Berlin’s current global outlook,” the mag says. If anyone’s tried it, Dish would love to hear…
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Culture Montreal Is Finally Getting Its Very Own Jewish Museum
After six years of presenting online exhibitions and pop-up events, the Museum of Jewish Montreal is finally getting a permanent brick-and-mortar home. The museum, scheduled to open by the end of May, is located in the city’s Plateau neighborhood, in a circa 1912 building that once housed a garment factory — a remnant of the…
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Food Kosher ‘Shrimp’ — and More Hot Dish
Coming soon to a kosher restaurant near you: shrimp. The U.K. Daily Mail reports that a San Francisco outfit called New Wave Foods has grown fake shrimp in a lab using red algae — which the crustaceans feed on — and baking it with a plant-based protein powder. Its very realness may become a problem….
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Food Spicing It Up at Abe Fisher
This is turning into an exciting year for guest-chef events and one-off dinners. Next on our radar: a four-course feast at Philly’s terrific Abe Fisher, which is part of the Cook N Solo group owned by star chef Michael Solomonov and his business partner Steve Cook. Chef Yehuda Sichel will team with Lior Lev Sercarz…
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Food Pommes Frites Reopens in New Neighborhood After LES Blast
More than a year after a devastating explosion destroyed its Second Avenue block, Pommes Frites reopened today in a shiny — albeit smaller — space near NYU in New York’s West Village. Two employees died in the 2015 blast, which displaced Pommes Frites after 18 years. “I don’t want it to be an opening with…
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News Did Orthodox Union Water Down Kosher Standards To Keep Manischewitz Happy?
A rabbi who worked for the Orthodox Union, the world’s biggest kosher certifier, for 20 years is claiming in a lawsuit that the agency acquiesced to demands from Manischewitz, a client and the iconic matzo-maker, that it soften its standards. The O.U. let Manischewitz hire and pay for its own kosher inspector, a practice that…
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