Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food Masala Mamas: An Indian Cookbook For The Kosher Home
If you ask any of the women in the Kulwa slum how old they are, chances are they’ll shrug their shoulders. These women did not receive enough math education to calculate their ages. Living in a slum, often without running water or electricity, where sewage sluiced through the villages, scarcely conscious of the passage of…
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Food Instead Of Checking For Bugs In Your Lettuce, Check For E.Coli
Don’t eat any lettuce you can’t identify the origin of. That overpriced lunch salad? That heirloom vegetable dinner you had planned? That burger with lettuce and tomatoes? Gone, gone and gone. As an E.coli outbreak spreads across this country and Jewish neurotics like myself take to Google in search of symptoms, the CDC has issued…
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Food Morrissey Just Compared Kosher Slaughter To ‘Rape’
The man, the myth, the militantly vegan legend. Pop singer Morrissey of the Smiths fame doesn’t speak to the press anymore. So when he posted an interview on his own site, www.morrisseycentral.com, viewers rushed to see what kind of unhinged things he said and were rewarded with talk of Brexit, the debauchery of London and…
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Food Decline Of The Coconut ‘Macaroon King’
Since 2008, couple Elka Gould and Ami Kaplan, director and producer, have been filming the Badner family coping with the slow decline of their macaroon factory in Williamsburg. A forty-minute film was whittled out of fifty hours of footage, and The Macaroon King documentary was born. The film is an unexpected time capsule into the…
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Food Orthodox Kosher Foodies Are Taking Center Stage On Instagram
Today’s food celebrities on Instagram are increasingly coming from an unlikely place — the kosher foodies of the Orthodox Jewish community. This phenomenon of religious kosher food bloggers like Jamie Geller, with 33.4k followers (and frequent appearances on TV), or @peasandcarrots , with her 27.9k followers, or @dinidelivers,with her 21.9k followers, may be indicative of…
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Food What Does Natalie Portman’s Snub Mean For The Israeli Food World?
To a casual observer, Natalie Portman’s abdication from her position of prominent, staunch celebrity Israel supporter might seem shocking. To a more refined class of salariat types (like me, kind of) this position is nothing more than Miss Natalie expressing what she has always believed: that while she is a fan of vegan hummus and…
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Food Why You Must Try Glamping ASAP, According to Emma Frisch
Humans want two contradictory things at the same time, to feel safe and pursue grand adventure and excitement. Which is why glamping, a portmanteau of glamour and camping, the process of being not too far from civilization but far enough, satisfies both simultaneous needs. I interviewed Emma Frisch, who runs Firelight Camps, an upstate New…
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Food Sodastream Celebrates Israel’s 70th Birthday In A Bizarre Way
In honor of Israel’s Independence Day, Sodastream has released a video in which a giant Sodastream bottle stands tall, gleaming and erect in a cityscape. Koalas cling to monster-size bottles of Sodastream. The Statue of Liberty proudly holds a Sodastream Sodastream in the air, trumpeting its presence as the new symbol of freedom. Sodastream bottles…
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