Naomi Major
By Naomi Major
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Food Feminist Beer To Celebrate Mother’s Day
“This is a man’s world, this is a man’s world.” So sang James Brown, and unfortunately it seems that our current administration wants to keep it that way. The Godfather of Soul did go on to say, “But it wouldn’t be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl.” That’s a nice afterthought; afterthought being…
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Food Don’t Put Blueberries In My Kreplach!
I really like saying the word kreplach. It’s got all the elements of what I consider to be a good spoken word: the hard, short “K” to start, with that throaty, elongated “ach” to finish, and the gentle “p” in the middle, making the two syllables, when spoken, what I would call a delicious word-meal….
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Food Tofu Cream Cheese Is My Secret Shame
When I was growing up in Toronto, Sunday was the best meal day of the week. Early in the morning, my father would go to Harbord Bakery and get kaiser rolls, bagels, sticky buns, a coffee cake and maybe even a few buffalo buns. Then he would head north to Eglinton Avenue to Daiter’s Dairy…
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Food 6 Things That Should Never Be Seen On A Bagel
Friends of my parents told me this story many years ago. I love it and have never forgotten it. Geraldine (Jewish) was bringing her boyfriend Bob (not Jewish) home to meet her parents for the first time. They were going to have a traditional Sunday breakfast: bagels, cream cheese, white fish etcetera. As everyone began…
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Food The Queen Of Beers For Purim? Catch Her If You Can
I never really gave much thought to beer in Israel. Recently, however, I did some reading, and here’s what I discovered. According to the Biblical Archaeology Society: “Ancient Israelites proudly drank beer…and lots of it. Men, women and even children of all social classes drank it…Even Yahweh, according to the Hebrew Bible, consumed at least…
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Food Shmaltz Brewing Co. Gets Funky With New ‘Jewbelation’
Shmaltz Brewing Company owner Jeremy Cowan never bought the old adage that Jews didn’t drink. In fact, he decided early on that he was going to brew a beer with a distincty Jewish identity. “The very first beer was Genesis Ale,” Cowan told me recently over the phone. “We hand squeezed pomegranates on the floor…
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Recipes From Cantoring to Cocktails
Allen Katz, co-founder of New York Distilling Company. Not long into my interview with Allen Katz, co-founder (with Tom Potter) of , I decided I wanted to meet his parents. More specifically, I wanted to go back in time and be invited over to Katz’s childhood Baltimore home for Friday night dinner, to meet his…
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Food Small-Batch Vodka, Made in Brooklyn U.S.A.
Making vodka is a family affair for Gary Shokin and his daughters Kary Laskin (left) and Samantha Shokin (right). One day in 2009 Gary Shokin and his daughter Kary Laskin were driving down the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn when Gary blurted out, “We should make vodka.” “Oh,” thought Kary. “My dad’s having another idea.” But…
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