Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Hanukkah Cupcakes and All the Weekly Dish
Not only are these cupcakes kosher; they’re also gluten and dairy free. If fried foods aren’t your thing but you’re still craving something sufganiyot-ish for Hanukkah, New York’s has your back. Its line of gluten-free, dairy-free, kosher Hanukkah cupcakes includes four designs — menorah, two different dreidels and gelt — on chocolate and vanilla cake-icing…
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Food Mexican-Jewish Chef Wins Thanksgiving Chopped Challenge and All the Weekly Dish
Chef Dafna Mizrahi (above) won Chopped’s Thanksgiving Challenge. Mexican-Jewish chef Dafna Mizrahi has won top prize on The Food Network’s . The 23-year-old chef/owner of farm-to-table spot Monte’s Local Kitchen in upstate Amenia, New York, triumphed over three opponents on the show’s Thanksgiving episode. Mizrahi donated her $10,000 prize to a local horse-rescue organization. New…
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Food A Zabar’s Craft Beer Bar and All the Weekly Dish
Eli Zabar has expanded his with Eli’s Night Shift, a “craft beer bar” he’ll run with son Oliver. Also on offer: Signature cocktails and haimish dishes like fish & chips, house-made sausages and house-cured pastrami on rye with mustard. During the day, the space is one of Zabar’s Essentials cafés. Eli’s Night Shift, 189 E…
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Food 5 Reasons Tel Aviv Is ‘Best Vegetarian’ City
A vegetarian dish at Nanuchka in Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv is home to the world’s best vegetarian food, says . On the list of must-visit spots: Vegan eateries Café Anastasia, Caffe Kaymak, and Tenat, an Ethiopian joint. “Veggie-friendly” options also make the cut, like Georgian resto Nanuchka, and The Herbert Samuel Restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton…
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The Schmooze Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in the North Carolina Mountains
The mountains of North Carolina make an unlikely locale for the world premiere of a Yiddish-inflected play about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. But Asheville’s not a typical Southern burg, and “Washington Place” opened last week to rapturous reviews at downtown’s Magnetic Theater, which produces original works by regional playwrights. The fact that…
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Food Babka Pie for Thanksgiving and All the Weekly Dish
Humble pie? Not at Israeli-owned , which is whipping up five new pies for Thanksgiving. Among them: chocolate babka (pictured above), a riff on its cultishly admired babka; a traditional double-crust apple pie; delicately spiced pumpkin pie; and a classic pecan made with caramel. We’re kind of pumpkined out, but Breads has also rolled out…
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Food Ruffled Feathers Over Wegmans’ Kosher Labeling
A New Jersey lawyer is crying “fowl” over food-handling practices at a Cherry Hill branch of supermarket giant , calling its kosher labeling “misleading and fraudulent.” Adam Rosen alleges that the chain is unwrapping kosher chickens, cooking them in unsupervised ovens, seasoning the birds and then repackaging them with stickers that say “kosher.” “It struck…
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Food The Hottest Latkes in Philly and All the Weekly Dish
Chef Yehuda Sichel’s latke with gin-cured salmon, pickled beets and Boursin. Grab a ticket for this sizzling event before it sells out: Philadelphia’s will host a latke tasting dinner for Hanukkah, chef Yehuda Sichel tells Philadelphia Weekly. “It hasn’t been super publicized yet, but it will be for the first night of Hanukkah,” Sichel says….
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