Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Finding Connectedness Through Food at Haven’s Kitchen
Haven’s Kitchen owner Alison Cayne (above) says, “Everything you do creates this bigger energy. That connectedness is a very Jewish concept.” Alison Cayne went big when she opened Haven’s Kitchen, renovating a gorgeous three-story carriage house on a busy Manhattan block. But behind the marble tabletops, rustic-chic decor and house-made granola at this cafe and…
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Food Einat Admony Sets Date for Combina Opening
Einat Admony, chef-owner of Balaboosta, Bar Bolonat, Taim and the soon-to-open Combina. Foodies, mark your iCals: Chef and her husband and business partner Stefan Nafziger have set November 14 as the opening date for Combina, their new West Village Sephardic-tapas spot. Molly Breidenthal, who is executive chef at Admony’s Bar Bolonat, will also be executive…
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Food Hard Times for Fairway and All the Weekly Dish
, the New York grocery chain founded in 1933 by Nathan Glickberg, is in trouble, says The New York Times. A leveraged buyout has loaded it with debt. An East Coast expansion has stalled. And its share price has tanked. Chains like Whole Foods and Trader Joe have become formidable competitors, says the Times. Nathan…
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Food Pastrami and Our Jewish Identity
Ted Merwin (above) writes that the roots of secular Jewish culture in America were, to a large extent, in the deli. The title of Ted Merwin’s new book isn’t completely accurate. is billed as “An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli.” But the book’s so packed with insights on American Jewish identity, assimilation and mobility…
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Food 20-Foot Challah Loaf Sets New World Record
Now immortalized in the Guinness Book of World Records, the loaf above measured in at 20 feet. Did you smell bread baking last week? You weren’t hallucinating: The 3rd-annual Great Big Challah Bake brought thousands of women out around the world to collaborate on giant loaves. How big was it? Here’s the shopping list from…
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Food Jewish Delis Everywhere and All the Weekly Dish
New in Toronto: , a tiny downtown spot serving latkes, matzo-ball soup, chopped liver, knishes and kilometer-high sandwiches — this is Canada, after all. According to BlogTO, the place is named for Sid Starkman — the late president of Chicago 58 Foods, “a Toronto institution famous for its Jewish style salami, hot dogs and cured…
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Recipes Chef to Stars Shares Vegan Recipes With the Rest of Us
Israeli-born Tal Ronnen orchestrated Oprah Winfrey’s highly publicized 21-day vegan cleanse in 2013. He catered Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s 2008 wedding after years as their private chef. But these days, he’s more concerned with spreading the gospel of veg to the masses. And in the new Mediterranean-themed cookbook (Artisan), named for his white-hot…
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Food Katz’s Deli Confirms It’s Opening Brooklyn Outpost
The shop on Ludlow and Houston will no longer be the only place to pick up the prized pastrami when a satellite shop opens in DeKalb Market next year. When in June that Katz’s Deli might expand to Brooklyn, owner Jake Dell called the rumor “unconfirmed.” As of this week, that’s changed. Katz’s has announced…
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