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Beloved East Village Café Closes After 36 Years
Café Orlin, a beloved eatery in Manhattan’s East Village that served hummus and other Israeli/Middle Eastern dishes — along with popular, inexpensive breakfasts and other classic American fare — is closing its doors today after 36 years in business. Once one of the only places in New York to offer the flavors of North Africa…
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New Yorkers Experience The Ultimate Israeli Brunch
A day after attending James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov’s Israeli brunch, part of the New York City Wine & Food Festival (NYCWFF), I’m still too full to type much — so my pictures will have to tell most of the story. First, there was a basket of beautiful little bourekas, flaky pastries filled with…
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Finding The Best Bourekas On The Planet
It’s an unforsaken hour and I’m flying over the Atlantic Ocean towards Tel Aviv in August. The dinner cart is making its way down the aisle, knocking elbows and dispensing hot mini pitas. I order the chicken. The answer to any question about what you’d like to eat on a plane should always include the…
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Score A Seat At Star Chef Solomonov’s Israeli Brunch
The New York City Wine & Food Festival (NYCWFF), which runs October 12–15, is packed with every kind of culinary happening: dinners, demos, tastings, classes, parties and more. But the event that caught my eye (go figure) is an Israeli brunch on Saturday at noon hosted by James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov. The Israeli-born,…
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Santa Cruz Is Introduced To Kosher Food — And It’s Unlike Any You’ve Ever Eaten
What do you get when you mix a kosher food wasteland, a Nigerian convert to Judaism and vegan cuisine? No, that isn’t the set-up to a bad joke: Nigerian-born Akindele Bankole just opened the only kosher restaurant in Santa Cruz, California, a vegan eatery called Veg on the Edge. According to an article by Alix…
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Toronto Food Fest Shows Can-Jew Attitude
Pickles and pastramis. Borscht and bourekas. Latkes and lox. Toronto’s rocking Jewish food scene was the star of the second-annual Noshfest, which took place on an unseasonably warm Canadian Thanksgiving, Monday, October 9. More than 1,500 locals packed a midtown arts center to meet the machers and mavens of Can-Jew cuisine. “We wanted a fun…
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Kosher Winery And Vineyards Scorched By Raging California Wildfires
The raging wildfires that have left a trail of destruction across northern California’s wine country have been fickle when it came to kosher wineries. One vineyard, Hagafen Cellars, sustained serious damage. The other, Covenant Winery, was largely spared by the devastating blazes that have killed at least 15 people and driven thousands from their homes….
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Gal Gadot Tries Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups For The First Time — And It’s Adorable
Last Thursday night, Gal Gadot made a pre-SNL appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” After she and Fallon talked about her major motion picture success and her upcoming first appearance on SNL, the conversation turned to more pressing matters: chocolate. Specifically, types of chocolate that each had never tasted before and would try…
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Recipes Spectacular Stuffed Cabbage, Revisited for Sukkot
The list of foods I don’t like is short. And today it got even shorter, because today I gave stuffed cabbage a second chance. My maternal grandmother often made this Ashkenazi classic, and as a kid I found the sweet-and-sour flavor of the sauce utterly objectionable. While everyone else at the table seemed to relish…
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Recipes Spicy Stuffed Peppers for Sukkot
Moving from Yom Kippur straight into Sukkot, I started to think about what to cook, of course, and checked a few books and online references for inspiration. Stuffed vegetables are de rigeur — they symbolize the hope for plenty during the harvest period — and being reminded of this, I thought of a crowd-pleasing recipe…
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Recipes 11 Of The Best Stuffed Dishes For A Plentiful (And Delicious) Sukkot
Sukkot isn’t just a festival that resembles glamorous camping, or “glamping,” with its abundant (sometimes too abundant) meals in a hut. It’s also a holiday that happens to coincide with the harvest season. Like Rosh Hashanah’s reliance on symbolic foods to guarantee a new year, Sukkot has some symbolic foods of its own: Stuffed dishes,…
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