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The Best Jewish Delis In New York
Here are the nominees for Forward Food Choice Award for best Jewish deli. Learn more about the awards and vote for your favorites here. Ben’s Best There’s a reason deli mavens flock to this humble Queens storefront — and not just because of its star turn on the Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” One…
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The Best Jewish Bakeries In NYC
Here are the nominees for Forward Food Choice Award for best Jewish bakery. Learn more about the awards and vote for your favorites here. Breads Bakery Co-founded by Israeli-born, New York-based Gadi Peleg and Israeli star baker Uri Scheft, Breads Bakery turns out some of the most delicious babka in the city along with exquisitely…
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Welcome To The 2017 Forward Food Choice Awards!
We’ve launched the Forward Food Choice Awards as part of the Forward’s 120th anniversary. Because food is such an integral part of Jewish culture, we’re not only celebrating our birthday, but also the most delicious and innovative contributions to Jewish food this year. The nominees were chosen by Forward staff, but the choice of winners…
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Best New Israeli/Middle Eastern Restaurants In NYC
Here are the nominees for the Forward Food Choice Award for best new Israeli/Middle Eastern restaurant. Learn more about the awards and vote for your favorites here. Bar Bolonat The tireless Einat Admony hasn’t always had an easy ride — Combina, her tapas joint, shuttered fast — but she’s found her groove with Bar Bolonat,…
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Best New Kosher Packaged Foods
These are the nominees for the Forward Food Choice Award for best new kosher food product. Learn more about the awards and vote for your favorites here. Bertinelli Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese In 2015, the Bertinelli farm became the first in the world to produce an authentic wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano made according to kosher laws under the…
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The Best Appetizing Shops And Cafés In NYC
Here are the nominees for the Forward Food Choice Award best appetizing shop/café in NYC. Learn more about the awards and vote for your favorites here. Barney Greengrass This beloved Upper West Side appetizing shop and eatery celebrated its centennial in 2008. Whether you eat in or take out, you’ll find everything much as it…
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Recipes Borscht Crostini
This beautiful holiday hors d’oeuvre delivers all the best of Ashkenazi cuisine — the tangy and bright and creamy and crunchy — in one bite. Serves 6 3 medium beets, peeled, halved and cut into ½-inch chunks 4 medium carrots, peeled, halved lengthwise and cut into 2-inch lengths 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar 2 tablespoons…
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Recipes Pickled Cherry Tomatoes
Best if left in the refrigerator four to five days before eating, these pickles can be part of a festive Jewish cheese plate that might also include sour cherries, dried figs and slices of halvah. ½ cup apple cider vinegar ¼ cup white wine vinegar 1 cup water 1 tablespoon kosher salt 2 teaspoons sugar…
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Beloved Deli Braves Harvey — Stays Open Throughout The Storm
It seems nothing short of miraculous, but Kenny & Ziggy’s, the beloved Houston deli immortalized in the 2015 film “Deli Man,” has emerged from Hurricane Harvey unscathed. “I’m one of the lucky and fortunate ones,” Ziggy Gruber, the deli’s indefatigable owner, told the Forward from his Houston home. “Both of our restaurants are in dry…
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7 Insane Ice Cream Flavors With Deliciously Hebrew DNA
Funny, that ice cream doesn’t look Jewish. But one bite of the new rugelach ice cream at Quality Eats, a Manhattan steak house, reveals its Semitic roots: chewy chunks of rich rugelach from Orwasher’s, the century-old New York bakery, in a sweet-tart base of cream-cheese/sour-cream ice cream. The treat debuts this week. We started wondering…
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Meet The 26-Year-Old Female Entrepreneurs Turning College Students Into Digital Foodies
As college students across the country head back to campus this month, it’s a good moment to step back and consider the value of that very expensive education. Like many millennials raised by loving parents who valued their child’s happiness above pragmatic concerns like career development, I was told when I started college to take…
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