Michelle Honig
By Michelle Honig
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Food Bagel + Sushi? An Unexpected Match
We love bagels. We love sushi. Who doesn’t? So when we heard that Uma Temakeria, the inventor of the sushi burrito, is creating — for a limited time only — a BAGEL-inspired temaki (hand) roll, we kvelled. Chef Chris Jaeckle of Uma Temakeria will be incorporating beet-cured smoked salmon from Black Seed Bagels into a…
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Food 5 Amazing Trader Joe’s Products That Happen To Be Kosher
With their ridiculously low prices, generous return policy and a stock of organic produce and cruelty-free eggs that puts Whole Foods to shame, Trader Joe’s is a foodie paradise. But it’s also a kosher foodie paradise — a place where many products, including the Trader Joe’s-branded products that make up most of the store, are,…
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Food 5 Fab Kosher Restaurants That Will Fool Your Non-Kosher Friends
Although kosher restaurants aren’t necessarily known for their quality, in recent years several have opened that are not only excellent by kosher standards, they are excellent by non-kosher standards as well. Using seasonal ingredients, small menus and a splash of creativity, these establishments have perfected the art of making kosher versions of classically non-kosher foods…
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Food Celebrate National Bagel Day With Free Bagels
February 9 is National Bagel Day — a whole day devoted to a food that, more than any other, is probably the definitive, most widely recognized Jewish food item. Something about it makes it easily translatable across cultural divides, so in that sense it’s become a distinctly American food, enjoyed and adopted by all. What…
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Food Knish Exhibit To Serve Up History And Potato Pies
Why is the knish — that simple-yet-comforting food item made of mashed potatoes and encased in a puffy golden dough — such a ubiquitous New York food? The answer will be revealed in a new exhibition at the City Reliquary called “Heroes of the Knish: Making a Living and Making a Life,” which dives into…
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Recipes Celebrate Chinese New Year Jewish Style With Molly Yeh
Chinese New Year celebrations are in full swing this week. And we can’t help but notice how similar the Chinese New Year is to the Jewish one. Take, for instance, the fact that the Chinese and Jewish calendars both follow the same Metonic cycle (lunar and solar), which allows holidays to fall out roughly the…
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