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WATCH: How To Make Cheesecake
A few years ago, I decided to try and wow my in-laws by baking a step-intensive, outrageously decadent cheesecake. It was a white and milk-chocolate “bullseye” design that required a laborious process of measuring and pouring the mixtures just so to create perfectly symmetrical concentric circles, alternating brown and white batters. However, the end result…
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Star Chef Solomonov Named Israel’s New Culinary Ambassador
Chef Michael Solomonov can add a new honor to his multiple James Beard awards and foodie hosannas: culinary ambassador for Israel. In a partnership that launches this month, the Philadelphia-based, Israeli-born Solomonov and the Israel Ministry of Tourism are forming a culinary partnership “to champion Israel’s extraordinarily diverse and vibrant culinary landscape.” Translation: Solomonov will…
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Recipes 9 Delicious Vegan Recipes For The 9 Days
This week is the Nine Days, a period of mourning commemorating the days leading up to the destruction of the Holy Temple. During this time, religious Jews observe certain mourning traditions, including refraining from listening to music and eating meat. Here are some vegan recipes to try during this sober time: Find Michelle Honig on…
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What Foods Are Campers Begging Parents To Send To Camp?
Unlike most camps, the one I went to when I was a kid actually allowed parents to send food. So there was no need to smuggle anything in. I was perhaps a bit more spoiled than the typical camper: My mother would send up a huge package filled with nosh before me and my siblings…
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WTF: Is Shark Kosher?
A day ahead of the start of Shark Week, a couple of chums in New Jersey made history this weekend by catching the largest shark in the state’s history, a 926-pound shortfin mako shark. Though it won’t count as a state record because it took so many men to bring the shark aboard the boat,…
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Ivanka Posts Cute Breakfast Pic Of Kids — As Jared Heads To Congress
Ivanka Trump’s husband may have spent the morning appearing in Congress to answer questions, but it was just another perfectly blissful day in the Kushner house. Or so it appeared in an image Ivanka posted on Instagram Monday morning of baby Theo in his highchair, donning sunglasses and smeared in what appears to be yogurt….
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The Beyond Burger Is Beyond A Vegan’s Wildest Dreams
Biting into a hamburger these days often comes with a hearty side dish of guilt — and not just because it’s loaded with saturated fat. The classic, craveable, all-American dish isn’t quite so satisfying for many informed consumers once they consider all of the ethical concerns that come with modern beef production. To bring each…
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How An Orthodox Mom Made Marijuana A Mitzvah
Selling cannabis edibles is hardly the typical job for anyone, let alone an Orthodox Jew. But that’s exactly what Shifra Klein, a mom of four and member of Los Angeles’s Ultra-Orthodox Lubavitch community, does. In fact, before she became a producer of kosher edibles with her company Mitzva Herbal Co., she used cannabis to treat…
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Zucker’s Bagels Is Expanding Its Empire And Opening Its Biggest Location Yet
There’s nothing stopping Zucker’s from taking over New York City, the Bagel Capital of America. According to a report by the New York Post, Zucker’s Bagels & Smoked Fish is opening a flagship in Flatiron, which will be Zucker’s fourth and largest eatery. The eatery, which is 1,800-square-feet, will be located at 40 East 23rd…
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NYC’s Oldest Seltzer Man Passes The Bottle To New Generation
If you live in Brooklyn long enough, you will invariably cross paths with one of the very few remaining seltzer delivery men left in New York. You might see an older gentlemen shuffling up a brownstone’s steps carrying a wooden crate filled with jostling glass seltzer siphons in clear and blue hues with silver-colored nozzles…
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Don’t Be The ‘Odd Mom Out’! 4 Fab Foods To Bring For Parents’ Weekend
Odd Mom Out, which premiered last week on Bravo, is a show about a “normal” woman named Jill living amongst a sea of prissy and perfect Upper East Side moms. Jill functions not only as comedy relief, but also as the Greek Chorus, directing our attention toward the absurdity of excessive lifestyles. In the premiere…
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