Michelle Honig
By Michelle Honig
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Food Experience Crown Heights’ Vibrant Kosher Food Scene At This Sunday’s Food Crawl
Food crawls are a great way for tourists and locals alike to experience a city or neighborhood’s unique subculture in all its gastronomic glory, especially in a vibrant foodie community like Chinatown or Little Italy. Crown Heights has had a kosher-food revolution in recent years — with gourmet restaurants representing all kinds of flavors and…
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Life Rent The Runway Debuts ‘Affordable’ Subscription — For $89 A Month
Renting designer clothes just got cheaper. According to CNBC, Rent The Runway will be debuting “RTR Update,” which is a cheaper membership alternative that allows customers to rent four pieces from the site every month for only $89 a month. RTR Update includes free shipping, returns, dry cleaning and insurance. Their current membership option, RTR…
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Food ‘Kosher Pizza Wars’ Restaurant Regroups With New Chef And Improved Menu
Yesterday, Basil Pizza and Wine Bar — a Crown Heights-based kosher dairy hotspot — was closed for business. But only temporarily. According to a report from hyperlocal news site, COLlive, Basil is undergoing a remodel of sorts. It will reopen on Wednesday, October 18, with both a new chef and a new menu. The owners…
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Life This $36,000 Kippah Is The Ultimate Luxury Item
If you’ve got $36,000 to spare, ModernTribe — a site that sells contemporary Judaica — has the perfect gift for you: A kippah made of diamonds. The kippah (literally called “The Kippah,” as if denoting its ultimate baller status), is made out of Italian leather and features a bling-encrusted Jewish star, with 873 tiny diamonds…
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Food Santa Cruz Is Introduced To Kosher Food — And It’s Unlike Any You’ve Ever Eaten
What do you get when you mix a kosher food wasteland, a Nigerian convert to Judaism and vegan cuisine? No, that isn’t the set-up to a bad joke: Nigerian-born Akindele Bankole just opened the only kosher restaurant in Santa Cruz, California, a vegan eatery called Veg on the Edge. According to an article by Alix…
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Food Gal Gadot Tries Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups For The First Time — And It’s Adorable
Last Thursday night, Gal Gadot made a pre-SNL appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” After she and Fallon talked about her major motion picture success and her upcoming first appearance on SNL, the conversation turned to more pressing matters: chocolate. Specifically, types of chocolate that each had never tasted before and would try…
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Breaking News Ivanka Trump Fall Fashion ‘Magazine’ Is Predictably Yawn-Worthy
Like other ecommerce juggernauts such as Net-a-porter who create online magazine spreads as a way to sell their merchandise, Ivanka Trump HQ has sent out an email today announcing their “Fall Fashion Issue.” Being that most “Fall Fashion Issues” tend to come out in late August/Early September, it seems that Ms. Trump’s brand is a…
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Recipes 11 Of The Best Stuffed Dishes For A Plentiful (And Delicious) Sukkot
Sukkot isn’t just a festival that resembles glamorous camping, or “glamping,” with its abundant (sometimes too abundant) meals in a hut. It’s also a holiday that happens to coincide with the harvest season. Like Rosh Hashanah’s reliance on symbolic foods to guarantee a new year, Sukkot has some symbolic foods of its own: Stuffed dishes,…
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