Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
-
Food Fillmore District Gets Deli and All the Weekly Dish
A once-Jewish San Francisco neighborhood gets a new deli. The empire keeps expanding. Owners Evan Bloom and Leo Beckerman opened a new location in San Francisco’s historically Jewish Fillmore neighborhood last week. The Fillmore District once thrived “with Jewish-owned bakeries, restaurants, shops and kosher markets. There were synagogues, a Yiddish Cultural Center and a Jewish…
-
Food Robert de Niro Has Brush With Deli Greatness at Ben’s
Ben’s Best Deli in Rego Park, Queens, was transformed into a movie set for The Comedian, which co-stars Edie Falco and Robert de Niro. , the iconic kosher deli in Rego Park, Queens, enjoyed a brush with greatness this week — or maybe it was actor Robert de Niro who had the brush with deli…
-
Food By the Way, a Gluten-Free Kosher Bakery
For 22 years, Helene Godin was a hard-charging lawyer for companies like Audible and Bloomberg. These days, she’s a different kind of advocate. As founder of , a purveyor of gluten-free, dairy-free and kosher breads and desserts, Godin’s become an unlikely champion of alternative eating. For someone who swears she couldn’t bake before beginning her…
-
Food ‘The Pickle Recipe’ Makes Sour Splash on Big Screen
This movie might leave a sour taste — or maybe it’s dill. , a caper involving a Jewish family’s secret pickle formula, premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival this month. “Every family has its secret,” proclaim the creators on its web site, sounding more like a mafia film than a feel-good Jewish tale….
-
Food New Kosher Bakery in Brooklyn, Plus All the Weekly Dish
Brooklyn’s getting a new kosher bakery this summer. Danny Branover, the Lubavitche owner of Crown heights kosher wine bar , will open the yet-unnamed shop nearby, DNA Info reports. More to come. New Kosher Market in N.J. Meanwhile, another kosher market’s opening in Clifton, New Jersey, home to a sizeable Orthodox population. Seasons, a kosher…
-
Food Hipster Halva in NYC
The new Seed + Mill in Chelsea Market. From left, Rachel Simons, Lisa Mendelson and Monica Molenaar. The seed of a business idea came to Lisa Mendelson after she and her banker husband left Tel Aviv for New York in 2014. “I’m obsessed with tahini, and when I moved to New York it was difficult…
-
Food Modern Cookies With Old-World Connections
Café Warshafsky’s lavendar and coconut shortbread. makes great shortbread cookies. Its ice creams are a hit. There’s even a hip, handmade logo. Don’t bother mapping it; the café doesn’t exist — at least in physical form. But it’s very real in the mind of Mai Warshafsky, the artist-turned-baker who created the nostalgia-drenched brand to market…
-
Food Mayor Bill de Blasio Celebrates Carnegie Deli Reopening
Mayor Bill de Blasio thanked owner Marian Harper (left) ‘for restoring this jewel in our crown.’ At least one fan at ’s official reopening ceremony this morning insisted that the legendary eatery makes “the best pastrami sandwich in the city.” That’s Mayor Bill de Blasio, who beamed as he cut a ceremonial cheesecake while the…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
- 2
Opinion The moral degradation of Israel’s far right is even worse than you think
- 3
Fast Forward CA Gov. Newsom says he regrets apartheid comment, ‘reveres’ Israel in new interview
- 4
News Mamdani voices concerns about synagogue buffer zone bill poised to pass NYC Council
In Case You Missed It
-
News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
-
News Scallion fights, soft matzo and other Passover traditions live on around the world
-
Fast Forward For Passover, an interactive map brings the haggadah down to earth
-
Fast Forward Mayor of Bath, England, resigns after amplifying idea that Jewish ambulance arson was a ‘false flag’ attack
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
