Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food Manischewitz Just Started Making Frozen Pre-Sliced Gefilte Fish For Your Passover Seder
If you’ve ever felt a desperate craving for some gefilte fish, perhaps with a delicate sprinkling of paprika on top or a slightly less delicate dipping-into-horseradish, you already know that the cook time (a wretched hour-and-a-half) is far, far too long. For years, Jews (who else eats gefilte fish?) have waited by boiling pots in…
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Food Alon Shaya on #MeToo, Weed Recipes and His Jewish Heritage
Is Alon Shaya cooking’s new socially conscious heir apparent? In his new restaurants, Saba and Safta, he’s planning to pay competitive wages far and above the median average payscale of restaurant employees, and provide health benefits, continuing education, and mandatory cultural training on a regular basis. In his new cookbook, Shaya, an ode to the…
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Food Nur NYC Has The Best Brunch In Town — All The Way From The Middle East
If you’re like me and love the variety of a brunch but hate the procedure of it, from the endless line of hungry people to the fight for the last breadstick, maybe it’s time for you to try a new kind of brunch. At Nur, the new Middle Eastern joint in Flatiron that’s been open…
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Food The Truth About Kosher Salt
From Himalayan salt that looks like solid pink marble to the glittery flakes of truffle salt, the world of salt is a colorful, diverse place, so why are so many chefs still stuck on kosher salt? Kosher salt isn’t necessarily kosher. In fact, lots of salts labeled kosher aren’t kosher at all. The original purpose…
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Food Quinoa Will Save Millions Of Jews From Starvation This Passover
A Brief History of Quinoa You’ll probably be shocked to hear that quinoa used to be the poor man’s food. (Whole Foods clearly didn’t get that memo.) When the Spanish invaded South America, they mocked the grain and called it “food for the Indians”. They forbid the cultivation of the grain, and the Incas (who…
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Food A Kosher Chipotle-Style Restaurant Opens In Baltimore
Downtown Baltimore will be getting a kosher chipotle-style ‘The Daily Special’ at 201 N. Charles St. for a quick bite as soon as Passover ends. The restaurant will feature the delicacies of Chef Daniel Neuman, previously of kosher steakhouse ‘Serengeti’ in Pikesville, Maryland, according to Ayelet Dresin, who is co-ordinating the launch. So dream big,…
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Food Would You Eat An Ice Cream Called ‘Poor Jews’?
Slavitsa is a food company that’s no stranger to bad press. They’ve been in hot water before for “Obamka” ice cream, naming the chocolate dessert after former president Barack Obama (complete with a picture of an African boy on the wrapper and derogatory -ka suffix!), and for another ice cream with a Ukranian slur. So…
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Food Is Paul Ryan Kosher? Wikipedia Says No
Lots of delicious things aren’t kosher, from shellfish to cheeseburgers, but Paul Ryan isn’t exactly something Jews have ever felt the need or desire to want to eat. Some lone, noble hero, likely operating out of the private sanctity of his mother’s basement, recently updated the invertebrate Wikipedia page to classify American politican Paul Ryan…
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