Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food The $5 Kosher Falafel On The Lower East Side
A post shared by Falafix (@falafix) on Aug 14, 2018 at 9:26am PDT As Jewish food takes a turn towards the Middle Eastern, falafel shops are sprouting up all over town, even in the old haunts of Jews from a hundred years ago, in the Lower East Side. One such shop is Falafix, a newly…
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Food Ben and Jerry’s Is Now Serving Ice Cream Bagels
It’s only available in London, but Ice Ice Bagel is already making headlines. The new cross-breed of carbs and dairy is available at Ben & Jerry’s in Soho, London. When Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield first decided they wanted to go into business together, they had their hearts set on infiltrating the bagel business. Though…
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Food You’ll Never Think Of Leftovers The Same Way Again
In ‘Now & Again’ (forthcoming September 4, 2018), Turshen ventures beyond the recipes, into the tricky why’s and wherefore’s of cooking, offering timetables for serving (how long can that chili and cornbread lunch last in your freezer?) options for sides to accompany main dishes, and options for ways to reinvent leftovers. Here, Turshen deals with…
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Food How Chopped Liver Came To Signify Jewishness In Hollywood
Chopped liver and onions was my grandfather’s favorite dish. He would sit down at the kitchen table, loosen his belt, and prepare to dig into a heaping platter of the stuff while me and all my siblings turned up our noses. The mound of gray sludge interspersed with sauteed onions looked far from appetizing to…
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Recipes A Rosh Hashanah Menu With A Modern Twist
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, a time of rebirth, of putting apples in everything, and of marking the passing of another year. There’s no better way to celebrate Rosh Hashanah than by rolling your sleeves up and getting into the kitchen to cook for everyone you love. Here are some recipes, new and…
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Food Putting Kosher Restaurants On The Map — Literally
How long does it take to build a map of all the kosher restaurants in NYC? For Yossi Hoffman, creator of koshermap.nyc, a compendium of all vegan, vegetarian and kosher restaurants in the New York City area, the answer was a lifetime of preparation, and two weeks of intensive work. “I want it to be…
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Food Do You Dare To Try And Finish This Monster Deli Sandwich?
Kenny and Ziggy’s Deli of Houston, Texas presents a challenge to all their customers. It arrives in the form of the Zellegebetsky, touted as the sandwich that’s bigger than its name. It’s a colossal 8-decker sandwich on rye bread, corned beef, pastrami, turkey, roast beef, salami, tongue & Swiss cheese with cole slaw, Russian dressing…
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Food Your Rosh Hashanah Honey Might Cost More This Year Than Ever Before
Honey is one of the few foods in the world that can never go bad, but still qualifies as real food your grandmother would recognize. Since ancient times, honey has been a major part of many cultures, and Judaism is no exemption. On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, apples and honey are traditionally eaten,…
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