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How To Tackle The Daunting, Delicious Artichoke
Confession: Even as an experienced cook, I sometimes find artichokes daunting. Forget to drop the raw, freshly cut vegetable into lemon water during preparation and it quickly turns brown. Stop paying attention while cutting off the pointy end of the leaves, and get pricked. And then there’s the choke, that little hairball at the center…
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The 9 Most Outrageous Bar Mitzvah Cakes
Nothing is more emblematic of a party’s theme than its cake. At some bar and bat mitzvahs, they outdo even the most extravagant wedding cake with over-the-top embellishments. The awesome, outrageous bar mitzvah cakes we found on Pinterest exemplify the creativity, theatricality and attention to minute detail that goes into them. Whether you’re planning a…
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Star Chef’s Jewish Diner Makes GQ Top 10 Restaurant List
The accolades keep coming for Philadelphia’s CookNSolo, the restaurant group of chef Michael Solomonov and business partner Steve Cook that includes the acclaimed Zahav, Abe Fisher and Federal Donuts. In the May issue of GQ magazine, one of the team’s newer spots, Rooster Soup Co., whose chef is Erin O’Shea, is dubbed one of the…
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Recipes Fiddlehead on the Roof, Starring The Russian Violin Of Vegetables
It used to be said, only half in jest, that if a Russian immigrant coming off the plane at Ben Gurion airport wasn’t carrying a violin, it meant that the new oleh (immigrant to Israel) was a pianist. I was thinking of the Russians this week as fiddlehead fern season kicked into high gear. Well…
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Recipes 17 Perfect Plant-Based Dishes For Earth Day…And Beyond!
Every day is a good day to think about eating sustainably: making food choices that are not only healthy for our bodies, but also help us make the gentlest impact on animals and our environment. Earth Day feels like a particularly good time to gather some delicious, creative, mostly vegan Spring recipes that offer inspiration…
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Jew Is Crowned NYC Brisket King… Again
For the second year in a row, a Jewish pitmaster took home the top prize in the Brisket King NYC competition. It was a post-Passover triumph: Sruly Eidelman of the Crown Heights kosher barbecue establishment Izzy’s Brooklyn Smokehouse took home both the crown and the golden calf trophy. Eidelman placed second last year, while Ari…
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How ‘Passover Paradise’ Turned Into A Holy Nightmare
Just back from a highly problematic Passover program in Cancun, a large group of weary travelers is creating cyber-support groups on Facebook, What’s App and Jewish community forums such as DansDeals.com. They are swapping war stories about what was supposed to be a luxurious Passover trip, run by a travel outfit called Passover Paradise. The…
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Pesach ‘Hostages’: Mexican Hotel Won’t Let Our People Go
When guests attempted to check out of the Royalton Riviera Cancun hotel on April 19 — the last day of a Passover program hosted by a travel group called Passover Paradise — they were told that they couldn’t leave until they paid tens of thousands of dollars each. According to the hotel, the Passover Paradise…
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Who Will Be Next King Of BBQ?
Tonight, a new Brisket King will be crowned. The 6th-annual Brisket King of NYC event will be held from 6–9:30 p.m. at the Food Sciences Academy of Long Island University Brooklyn in Downtown Brooklyn, and tickets are still available. Last year, the Wandering Que’s Ari White won the top prize with a kosher lamb brisket….
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Berlin’s 1st Jewish Food Festival Is Not Just For Jews
Smells of kreplach and challah wafted into the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin on a rainy Friday in March, as Israel-born chef Itay Novick and his staff hurriedly worked in the nearby kitchen to prepare Sabbath dinner for nearly 100 guests. The dinner was part of the first-ever Jewish food festival in the city, Nosh Berlin,…
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A Queer Chef Shut Down An Interview Request From Ivanka Trump’s Brand
When an interview request from an IvankaTrump.com contributing writer slipped into the Instagram inbox of Angela Dimayuga, executive chef at New York City’s Mission Chinese Food, she knew she had to respond. In a note published publicly on Instagram, Dimayuga explained to the writer exactly why she wouldn’t grant an interview, citing, among other issues,…
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