Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food Why Did NYC Lose 15 Kosher Restaurants In 2018?
Everyone knows opening a restaurant is a tricky business. Only 21% of restaurant start-ups survive past 15 years, the average restaurant lifetime is 4.5 years, and 17% of restaurants fail within their first year of business. In the kosher community, all of those percentages are a whole lot higher. 2018 was a particularly terrible year,…
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Food Middle Eastern Food (Traditionally Meat-Heavy) Gets The Vegan Treatment
If Middle Eastern food is so heavily dependent on meat — can it be converted to vegan? According to cookbook “Tahini and Tumeric”, the answer is a resounding yes. Vicky Cohen and Ruth Fox, the Lebanese-Jewish-Spaniard sisters behind food blog May I Have That Recipe, embarked on a quest to turn all the traditional foods…
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Food Bringing The Israeli Shuk To Los Angeles
At Charcoal Bar and Grill in Los Angeles’ Beverly Grove, Israeli shuks (marketplaces) are the inspiration for executive chef (and partner) Lenny Nour. According to Eater LA, Nour was sent at age fourteen to Israel, where he worked on a farm and served in the military. He got his cooking credentials at East Coast kosher…
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Food He Ate A Poppyseed Bagel, Failed A Drug Test — And Lost His Job
When New York City jail guard Eleazar Paz had eggs, a poppy seed bagel and a coffee for breakfast in January of 2016, he had no idea it would cost him his $82,000 job. A random urine test revealed 522 nanograms of morphine and 358 nanograms of codeine in his system, and he was subsequently…
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Food Controversial Rabbi Planning Kosher Food For World Cup In Qatar
During the eagerly anticipated 2022 World Cup, which will be held in Qatar, thousands of Jewish fans are expected to be at the games — and now there will be kosher options to feed them. According to Bloomberg, Rabbi Marc Schneier, who previously had a hand in bringing kosher hot dogs to New York stadiums,…
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Food Here Are The Best Cookbooks Of 2018
They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. We say, the way to an examination of our cultural ecosystem is through the cookbooks it published in 2018. From a manual on eating alone to tips for using up those pesky leftovers, 2018 was a banner year for unusual cookbooks. Here are…
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Food How Two Orthodox Musicians Got Oprah To Love Their Pricy Popcorn
In the dead of the summer, when people crave popcorn the most, Aaron Zutler and Jacob Goldenthal, the two owners of artisanal kosher dessert popcorn Popinsanity, used to make ten batches of popcorn a day. Now they make forty batches daily, and it’s all thanks to Oprah Winfrey. “We started February 2013, and didn’t sell…
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Food 2018 In Food, According To Ruth Reichl
At Manhattan’s Rizzoli Bookstore, a heated conversation about food was happening, presided over by the elder statesman of food writing, Ruth Reichl. Their mission? To talk tachlis on the food world — all the way down to the kosher meat of the matter — calling on decades of combined professional experience. Their excuse? The release…
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