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Brooklyn Soup Kitchen to Serve Meals for the Hungry — on Fine Hollywood China
What do Brooklyn’s poorest residents have in common with the guests at Bella and Edward’s wedding in the popular vampire movie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1? They could soon find themselves eating off the elegant dinnerware featured at the fictional wedding reception. Masbia Soup Kitchen Network, a project to alleviate hunger among…
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Israeli Street Food in Brooklyn + More Hot Dish
The Kiosk, the summer concession at Brooklyn’s 12 Chairs Café, is back online for summer with some delicious-sounding menu additions. Along with Israeli-street-food staples like pita and falafel, sabich and terrific hummus, you’ll now fine a shakshuka pita with feta cheese, green omelet pita with herbs, cream cheese and salad. Wash it down with Israeli…
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An American Cookout With Middle Eastern Flair
How do you put a Jewish twist on a Fourth of July barbecue? Take summer staples — burgers, watermelon, even a red-white-and blue frozen dessert — and add an Israeli accent. Instead of the usual hamburger, there’s a spiced lamb burger with garlicky mint pesto. Watermelon comes in the form of a cool sweet-and-salty salad,…
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Iraqi Lamb Burgers With Mint Pesto
A burger infused with Middle Eastern spices — mint, cinnamon and allspice — and with added pine nuts is a nice break from a traditional American hamburger. (Note: When the Forward tested this recipe, we made 8 patties instead of 6, and cooked them longer than the recipe indicates — about 5 minutes per side.)…
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15-Minute Black-Bean ‘Mujadara’
There’s nothing I like more than finding a great cheat for a dish that usually takes a long time to prepare. For my version of the classic Middle Eastern rice-and lentil dish called mujadara I’m using leftover rice from the other night’s takeout and canned black beans instead of dried lentils. The only thing that…
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Coconut Sorbet With Summer Berries
Coconut milk offers the richness of cream without the dairy. Red and blue berries dot the white sorbet, lending it a distinctly patriotic appearance, perfect for the Fourth of July — or any hot summer day. Also on the Menu 15-Minute Black-Bean “Mujadara” Iraqi Lamb Burgers With Mint Pesto Watermelon Salad With Black Olives, Basil…
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Coolhaus Rolls Out Ice Cream Sandwich Summer Giveaway
From Coolhaus, the gourmet ice cream company that created the decidedly nonkosher pastrami ice cream sandwich, come two new “sammies”: “Pie in the Sky” — frosted whoopee cookie with a mascarpone cheesecake ice cream with crumbled Biscoff cookies and a strawberry swirl — and “Jet Set Crunch” — brown-sugar cookie with pretzels and butterscotch chips,…
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James Corden Goes From Late-Night Comedy to Kosher Butchering
When I watched James Corden host the Tony’s last weekend, I didn’t imagine that the next time I saw the British comedian he’d be wearing a kippa and an apron in a kosher butcher shop, ringing up sales and cutting up steaks. Then I saw this hysterical video. As part of a running sketch called…
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Chabad Rabbi Is ‘Chopped’ in Final Round of Food Network Showdown With Fellow Clerics
“Judges, no joke: A nun, a priest, a pastor and a rabbi have walked into the Chopped kitchen!” That’s how Ted Allen, host of the Food Network’s Chopped, kicked off the competition on Tuesday night’s show. Called “Leap of Faith,” the hour-long episode pitted four foodie spiritual leaders against one another to see who could…
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Whisky Jewbilee, All Grown Up
Other people’s kids: You see them born, you see them grow, you write reviews of them. That’s how I feel about the fifth-annual Whisky Jewbilee that took place on June 15. I was there at its birth — the only national correspondent in attendance at the first Whisky Jewbilee in 2012 as it opened in…
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Taste of Jewish Culture Street Fair This Sunday
It’s that delicious time of the year again… This Sunday June 26th marks the third annual Workmen’s Circle Taste of Jewish Culture Street Fair. From 11 a.m.–6 p.m. on Avenue of the Americas between 48th and 49th streets, the event will feature NYC’s top Jewish food vendors including The Gefilteria with OneTable and Black Seed…
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