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Turkish Lamb With Green Garlic
Spring is when green garlic appears at the market. These fragrant green shoots with tiny young bulbs resemble large green onions or baby leeks, and combined with green onions, they make for a delicate and aromatic stew. If you cannot find green garlic at your market, you can use garlic cloves. With the slow cooking,…
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Chocolate Moses, Macaroons, Mini Truffles and More Passover Sweets
One of the Passover-themed offerings from Mouth. Wasn’t it just Purim? Well, it’s time to start thinking about Passover goodies. At , the hipster-approved mail-order food operation, Passover items include whimsical gift boxes like Parting of the Sea Salt ($70), a collection of indie sea salts like herb salt from Amangansett Sea Salt and Citrus…
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Artisanal Matzo From Brooklyn — and All the Dish
You could say matzo’s always been artisanal; it’s a labor-intensive product that usually bears the maker’s stamp. But Brooklyn’s is upping the ante with “small-batch” matzo in buttercrunch and salted varieties. A handful of retailers across NYC now carry it; more roll out on April 15. The box alone makes The Matzo Project worth seeking…
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My Overpriced Dinner at Ukraine’s Faux Jewish Eatery
(JTA) — There’s a Jewish-themed restaurant attached to the ruins of the 16th-century Golden Rose Synagogue here. It first caught my eye last month when I was taking photographs of Meylakh Sheykhet, a haredi Jewish man who is fighting to preserve what’s left of the once beautiful structure. Sheykhet insisted I train my lens in…
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No Bull! Jon Stewart Gets Runaway Bovine Spared From Slaughterhouse
Comedian Jon Stewart (right) in quiet conversation with Frank the bull after a dramatic rescue April 1. April Fools Day was eventful for comedian and former Daily Show host Jon Stewart this year — and not because of a prank. It was entirely serious when a bull en route to a Brooklyn slaughterhouse escaped in…
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Recipes The Secret Jewish History of Arugula
Arugula was recommended as an ideal vegetable to act as karpas – the bitter green – at the Passover Seder by Amram Ga’on, the ninth-century rabbi and Talmudic genius. There was a point in time when arugula was a code: a vegetable that said “here is the great white bobo-latte-liberal!” All the way back in…
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Recipes Chickpea Arugula Salad With Caramelized Onions
Though this salad is a modern creation, it uses several ingredients that were common in ancient and medieval Jewish cuisine. Related Arugula, chickpeas and onions are all mentioned in both the Tanakh and the Talmud, and appeared in many Jewish cuisines throughout history. This simple salad serves as a light meal or a protein- and…
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‘In the Night Kitchen’ at a Brooklyn Breakfast Table
Every morning at my house, two things are bound to happen. The first, of course, is breakfast. On the days that I take on early-morning toddler duty, that means splitting a banana-yogurt-strawberry-tahini smoothie with Max. Sometimes I throw in frozen spinach or a spoonful of pumpkin puree to sneak some vitamins into my vegetable-avoidant child’s…
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My Ottolenghi Adventure
Delectible dishes on display at Yotam Ottolenghi’s flagship shop in London. I don’t tend to plan the heck out of vacations, because when we travel as a family we like to pretend we’re natives. We prefer apartments to hotels and we quickly master the public transportation system, if there is one. Having said that, I…
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Books New Cookbook Is Chef’s Love Letter to Mediterranean Diet
Eighty is an age when many people would be resting on their laurels and hanging up their chef’s whites — especially someone like Joyce Goldstein, the former Chez Panisse Café chef who went on to run her own Mediterranean restaurant and has written numerous cookbooks. But when you open your first restaurant at 49, as…
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Canter’s Deli Doubles Down — and All the Weekly Dish
Canter’s Deli, an L.A. icon, is trying its hand in Las Vegas (again). Three years after retreating from Las Vegas, where it had opened an outlet at the Treasure Island casino, is coming back in a big way. The iconic L.A. delicatessen will open a 4,200-square-foot branch at the Linq, a splashy new gambling resort…
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