Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Birch Coffee Began With Bar Mitzvah Money
From savings bond to burgeoning business: Above, a cappuccino from Birch Coffee. Jeremy Lyman got a $10,000 savings bond from his grandparents for his bar mitzvah. When he cashed it in early, at age 27, he kept it quiet. Now he can kvell. That bar-mitzvah money funded , the burgeoning New York business he started…
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Food Schmaltz Is Chic — And All the Week’s Hot Dish
Schmaltz is a key ingredient in the base for Ivan Orkin’s shio ramen. Schmaltz is hot, says hip mag. At Ivan Ramen, the Lower East Side spot from the New York chef who took Tokyo, Ivan Orkin, schmaltz is a key ingredient in the base for his shio ramen. Chef David Santos, who operates a…
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Food Fargo Gets a Deli of Its Own
The blackboard menu at BernBaum’s. No, not the ; we mean the real place, in North Dakota. BernBaum’s opened this month with hand-rolled/boiled bagels, schmears, brisket…and a smoked ham sandwich with sauerkraut and cheese. (There’s only so much you can do in a state with a Jewish population of 400.)
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Food Celeb Chef Jose Andres Goes From Serrano to Sephardic in L.A.
A Sephardic Jewish eatery may be the next project for celeb chef , whose restaurant empire spans Washington D.C., Beverly Hills, Las Vegas and South Beach. “I want to open a Sephardic Jewish restaurant. I think L.A. should be the place for that,” the chef behind hotspots like The Bazaar and Oyamel tells Munchies. Stay…
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Food Former White House Chef Helping Washington Heights Eat Healthfully
Former White House chef Sam Kass helped First Lady Michelle Obama create the first major vegetable garden at the White House since the 1890s. The Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan is a long way from Washington D.C., but on Tuesday, March 15, , former White House assistant chef and a senior policy advisor for…
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Food Zahav Alum To Open Jewish Bakery in Philly — and More Hot Dish
A veteran of Michael Solomonov’s Zahav is striking out on her own with a bakery focused on Jewish breads. Thirty-year-old chef Tova du Plessis, who’s been a line cook at Zahav and worked the kitchens in a gamut of Philadelphia hotspots, will open the Jewish-baked-goods-focused next month on Passyunk Avenue, home to a vibrant indie-restaurant…
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Food Popular Toronto Deli Spreading Chutzpah Across Canada
An image of Zane Caplansky hanging in one of his deli’s Pearson International Airport offshoots. Look out, world: , the hugely popular Toronto deli, is about to expand in a big way. “Canada needs a little chutzpah, and I’ve got plenty to spare,” Zane Caplansky, the restaurant’s irrepressible founder, told the Forward. “Our goal is…
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Food 70-Layer Blini Tower at Mile End Deli
Meet New York’s most outrageous brunch offering, courtesy of Noah and Rae Bernamoff’s . It’s a 70-layer blini tower, and AMNY reports that it takes 30 minutes just to compile it, which doesn’t count the time it takes a prep cook to make each of the 35 blini that comprise its structure.) Inside each layer:…
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