Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food For This Year’s Forward Food Awards 2018, We Want Your Feedback
For the 2018 Forward Food Awards, we want to get some feedback from our readers on who they think should be nominated — and why. We want your best, most out of the box ideas. Send us your reliable old favorites along with your latest and trendiest picks. We want to hear about what you…
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Food An Iconic Jewish Bakehouse Reveals Its Tightly Kept Secrets
What can we say? It’s Zingerman’s! If you’ve ever been to Ann Arbor, Michigan, you know a Zingerman’s Bakehouse cookbook essentially sells itself. Ann Arbor is a university town, where the University of Michigan and football reign supreme. The cookbook is a reflection of cooking for an ever-changing flow and ebb of visitors, students and…
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Food Toronto’s First Kosher Food Bank Is Closing
It feeds 150 hungry families a week. On Tuesdays, it has about 25 to 30 loyal volunteers prepping meals to hand out about 400 bags of food. And it only costs about $800 a week to run, as Alan Marks, one of Pride of Israel Synagogue’s food banks founders, told CJNews.com. Donations have shrunk and…
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Food Trump-Supporting Kosher Restaurant Owner Accused Of ‘Gentrifying’ LA
Kosher restaurant Asher Caffe and Lounge is being accused of neighborhood gentrification by protesters in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Boyle Heights has been a hotspot for gentrification protests lately, but the newest target of activist ire isn’t your usual overpriced, artisanal coffee shop. In fact, Asher Caffe is kosher. But gentrification wasn’t the only reason…
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Food The Secret Ingredients For The Perfect Cholent: From Coke To Falafel Balls
Growing up, one of the most egregious kitchen crimes my mother ever committed was cooking hot dogs and chopping them up into our Shabbat cholent. Upon finding a hotdog in our cholent, we would collectively groan and push our bowls away. Cholent had a very small window of being good. It isn’t photogenic, it’s easily…
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Food Who’s Eating Jewish Food In New York — Right Now?
New York is the city that never sleeps. It’s a place where bagels and babka can flourish, where people can go for a whitefish salad at any time of day or night. But for an enterprising food editor like me, it’s sometimes hard to keep my eye of Sauron on all the Jewish food happenings…
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Food WeWork Goes Vegetarian, Banning Meat From Its Offices
WeWork, the company owned by Shabbat-keeping billionaire Adam Neumann, is going vegetarian in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint. WeWork is a company selling access to shared workspaces, that has been honored as a traditional workspace disruptor, that is now effectively banning meat at all company-wide events, refusing to reimburse employees for lunches that…
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Food In The Kosher Market, Artisanal Cheese Is A Hard Sell
From camembert to cotija to chèvre, fancy artisanal cheeses are universally acclaimed and adored — and are becoming increasingly available for kosher-keeping consumers. Outside the United States, Israelis and French Jews live in cultures that value artisanal cheese more than Americans might. The shuk in Israel is full of cheese vendors and kosher certified cheese…
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