Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food Whatever You’re Spending On Coffee, It’s A Steal
Let’s clear this up: taking your coffee black is perfectly fine. But it doesn’t make you virtuous. Neither does avoiding instant coffee. Just ask Jordan Michelman. Coffee is Jordan Michelman’s life. Michelman, who grew up as one of the only Jews in University Place, Washington, started in on his coffee habit early, drinking a morning…
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Food This Israeli Lab Has Produced Steak, Hold The Cow
Can creating real meat without real animals ever be possible? Israeli startup Aleph Farms claims the answer is yes — it has created the first lab-made steak. No, not soy or mushrooms that look like steak, real steak. Complete with blood vessels. The meat problem is one that has confounded the food world and environmental…
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Food A Kosher Meals Vending Machine Comes To Manhattan
In Midtown, where there was once a kosher food desert, there is now a vending machine stocked with fresh Kosher meals. The heckshered contraption is meant to serve the Jews working inside Midtown Manhattan’s 10 W 33rd Street, but folks hankering for a kosher salad and smoothie can slide past security towards the haven of…
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Food This Restaurant Serves Authentic Vietnamese Pho To Hasids
Every day throngs of Lubavitch Hasidim pass by Pho-Men in Crown Heights and stare. A Japanese place that doesn’t serve sushi nestled in the middle of Hasidic Crown Heights is bound to raise some eyebrows. The man (or “visionary,” as one of his staffers called him) behind those raised eyebrows is Levi Jurkowicz. “I never…
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Food If Natalie Portman Ruled The World, Everyone Would Eat ‘Jewshi’
Natalie Portman wants to know why sushi has never been made with gefilte fish. “You have horseradish on the side,” she told Vox Lux co-star Jude Law in a WIRED autocomplete interview. “It’s kind of the same thing as wasabi, right? Jew-shi. No one’s made it. Why don’t they make sushi with gefilte fish? It’s…
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Food Marijuana-Based CBD Oil Is The Next Big Thing On Jewish Restaurant Menus
A quick foray into the world of Jewish cooking reveals a surprising amount of CBD and marijuana products, from Orthodox Union certified edibles like the ones Mitzvah Herbals offers to Jeff the 420 Chef’s ouvre to kosher-certified industrial hemp producer GenCanna, all created with this trending non-psychoactive form of weed. While the world waits for…
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Food How Real Housewife Bethenny Frankel ‘Leaned In’ On Shark Tank
This might be the first time you’ve heard the word Yumble, but it probably won’t be the last, now that Bethenny Frankel is on board. On a recent episode of ABC show “Shark Tank” the Real Housewife-turned-entrepreneur, who sold her Skinnygirl cocktail line for a rumored $120 million, played hardball with her fellow sharks and…
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Food Shelsky’s Bagels Serves An Artisanal Jewish Breakfast In Brooklyn
In the dark ages, otherwise known as 2017, visiting an appetizing store from Park Slope involved some finesse, some planning, and some knowledge of the precarious subway system. And what was an appetizing store? Just the spunky younger sister of the deli. As per Jewish law, milk and meat cannot be eaten together. This meant…
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