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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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Kosher Sushi and All the Week’s Dish
What’s Yiddish for “California Roll”? Sushi’s become a staple for the kosher crowd, says The New York Times. More than 100 kosher sushi spots operate in Brooklyn alone — and most have opened in the last decade. Why? It’s parve. It’s convenient. And “you have your protein, carbohydrates and vegetables all in one,” says one…
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Recipes 3 Secret-Ingredient Breakfast Smoothies
These days, when I ask my almost-2-year-old son, Max, what he wants for breakfast, he nearly always requests a smoothienana. If you don’t happen to speak Max, that’s toddler language for “banana smoothie.” He then heads to the cabinet where we keep the blender and all but picks it up and puts it on the…
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Falafel War Erupts in Paris — Who Will Win Battle of Jewish Quarter?
(JTA) — On a crowded sidewalk in the French capital, Yomi Peretz exchanges jokes and backslaps with customers who are waiting in a 20-yard queue in the rain to enter his falafel shop. This chummy interaction comes naturally to Peretz, a tall enthusiast of boxing and poker who owns and runs l’As du Fallafel (The Falafel…
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The 9 Best Jewish Food Trucks in the U.S.
JTA — Summer is upon us. And that means swimsuits, summer camps, sticky temperatures — and food trucks. True, many of these trendy restaurants-on-wheels are known to ply their wares in the depths of winter. But as the weather warms, everyone from office workers to tourists find themselves beckoned outside for lunch. Sadly, kosher options…
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Recipes Father’s Day ‘Closet’ Brownies
The following is an excerpt from the memoir “My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, With Recipes” by Dawn Lerman (Berkley Books, September 2015). My maternal grandmother, Beauty, always told me that the way to a man’s heart was through his stomach — and by the look of pure delight on my…
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Schmaltz By the Sea — and More Hot Dish
She sells schmaltz by the seashore: Cherry Hill, New Jersey deli The Kibitz Room is opening a summer seaside satellite. The restaurant, which makes “everything from scratch, including kishkes,” will offer seating for 50 inside and 30 outside at its new Margate, New Jersey location, where people can enjoy “the best view on the Jersey…
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Solomonov’s Federal Donuts Rolling Out New Locations
Today Philadelphia; tomorrow the world. The paint’s barely dry on his new Dizengoff counter inside NYC’s Chelsea Market, but Michael Solomonov’s CooknSolo group just announced two new Federal Donuts outposts, in Miami and Nashville. Though rumors have swirled that the James Beard Award winner would bring his beloved Zahav to Miami, Federal will be his…
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