Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food The Case For Eating All Food At Room Temperature
Long before eateries like Sweetgreen and Just Salad took urban areas by storm, there was Ilene Rosen at City Bakery. For fifteen years, she served as the savory chef of that institution, cultivating a following that mourned her departure to R&D Foods, a specialty grocery store featuring her prepared foods. So can a food cookbook…
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Fast Forward Why Has Bagel Shop Nussbaum And Wu Closed?
Nussbaum and Wu, a venerable Upper West Side New York City bagel joint, has mysteriously closed its doors. A recent health inspection reported that its hygiene was…not the greatest. A sign was posted to the door declaring alleged owner Shlomi Sela (who is, notably, neither a Nussbaum nor a Wu) to have “failed the community…
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Food Does Keeping Kosher Mean Having Less Sex?
The grass always seems greener on the other side, doesn’t it? Especially for a particular segment of neurotic, anxious Jews with an abundance of hang ups about sex. But as a new Harvard study recently revealed, couples who eat a lot of seafood may have more sex and get pregnant faster than folk who don’t….
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Food New York Schools Are Finally Starting To Offer Kosher And Halal Meals
As the New York City fiscal budget for 2019 begins to take shape, city officials are taking the opportunity to push new initiatives. With 38% of today’s New York public school students Jewish and Muslim, and growing rapidly, new measures are needed to suit their dietary restrictions. David Weprin, a state assemblyman from Queens, first…
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Food Why Food Preserving Is The New Hot Jewish Thing
Judaism is all about preservation, both literally and figuratively. There’s a reason why some Jewish traditions haven’t been swept away by the tide of history – it’s because there were some dedicated preservationists out there making sure their way of life wasn’t forgotten. Preservation is why, if you take a trip to New Square or…
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Food Why ‘Ladies’ Cocktails’ Are Sexist — And What We Should Drink Instead
What does the liquor industry think women like to drink? Is it “vodka that tastes like cupcakes, whiskey that tastes like cinnamon, or some “skinny-ized” variation of an otherwise classic drink” as Misty Kalkofen and Kirsten Amann write in their new book “Drinking Like Ladies”? What do women actually like to drink? Equally importantly, what…
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Food The Charlotte Russe Is Making A Comeback
What is a charlotte russe? It’s a Jewish dessert that fell by the wayside. It’s a forgotten piece of Jewish culture. As Leah Koenig wrote for Politico, “Eighteenth-century European aristocrats knew Charlotte Russe as a cake made of ladyfingers pressed into an elegant mold, filled with thick custard or Bavarian cream, and flavored with cooked…
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Food Kylie Jenner Shares Her Matzo Ball Soup Recipe
I didn’t want to do this. But there comes a time in every media writer’s life in which she must choose whether or not to write about the Kardashian-Jenners. Today I didn’t have a choice. Because, according to her Insta Story, Kylie Jenner made matzo ball soup —and it really isn’t that bad. The matzo…
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