Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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The Schmooze Tiffany Haddish Is Not Afraid To Make A Move On Leonardo DiCaprio
Tiffany Haddish has skyrocketed to the top of the A-list, where she belongs. Along the way, she ran into a few of Hollywood’s requisite A-listers and gave them some Haddishional motivational inspirational words to keep them going. In this case, the A-lister was Leonardo DiCaprio, the scene was a few months ago, and the sexual…
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Food How To Throw Your Own Interfaith Eid Dinner
Eid al-Fitr (meaning the feast for breaking the fast) is the celebratory feast that marks the end of Ramadan, a month of fasting, prayer and introspection for Muslims. It’s a day of thanksgiving and joy, where Muslims wear new clothes, prepare delicious foods, put up lights and decorations and give each other gifts. And increasingly…
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Food Molly Yeh Is Bringing Jewish Cuisine To The Food Network
Molly Yeh is a big deal, but she’s about to get a lot bigger. For nine years her blog “My Name Is Yeh” made waves around the Internet. Now she’s about to head to the silver screen, with her new Food Network show Girl Meets Farm. I spoke with Molly about her new yogurt-focused cookbook…
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Food Debunking The Myths Of Veganism
Human beings, like their bovine counterparts, pretty much need to spend their entire day grazing on food. This means we spend a pretty considerable amount of time thinking about when, where and how our next meal is coming. The underlying fantasy is cooking delicious, healthy meals in nominal amounts of time, but that fantasy –…
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Food Ben’s Best Deli Is Closing. Are We Witnessing The End Of The Jewish Deli?
Jewish delis used to be a New York staple. In the Lower East Side of Manhattan, for a group of Jewish immigrants longing for a sense of place, delis offered the Eastern European foods of their home countries (which they often would not have been able to afford in their home countries). Over heart-attack-inducing juicy…
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Food MeToo Killed The Most Profitable Restaurant Partnership In NYC
Together they ruled the culinary scene in Manhattan. After fourteen years of Chef April Bloomfield and restaurateur Ken Friedman being the hottest partnership in the New York restaurant world, Bloomfield recently announced that she was dissolving her business relationship with Friedman, after a New York Times report accused Friedman of sexual harassment. Bloomfield scored The…
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Food Juices And Acai Bowls Are Hot Now In Orthodox Brooklyn
Come to Brooklyn, all you who are malnourished and dehydrated, and Re:Juicebar will give you smoothies and acai bowls. If you’re a fan of fruit eaten with a fork or straw, it might be time to head to Flatbush, where kosher juices, filled with unexpected delights like cucumber, spinach, celery, pineapple, carrot, orange, pomegranate, grapefruit,…
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Food Can Kosher Encourage Mindful Eating?
When I first saw Beth Warren’s new cookbook, Secrets Of A Kosher Girl, it looked to me like the kind of book that could’ve easily been published twenty years ago. In the food world, diet foods and books are passe these days, with people focusing more on a “health first” philosophy that welcomes different kinds…
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