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Baking a Perfect Bagel In Utah
(JTA) – When Robb Abrams first moved to this mountain city from the New York area six years ago, he loved the idea of living in an outdoorsman’s paradise. But there was one thing in particular he found very troubling: He couldn’t find a decent bagel anywhere. What began as a casual hunt quickly turned…
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Recipes Playful Pop-Tart Hamantaschen
An American junk-food classic meets the traditional Purim pastry. The result? Fun and festive hamantaschen (that just happen to be vegan). You definitely don’t have to be a kid to enjoy them. Makes about 12 2 tablespoons ground flax seed combined with 6 tablespoons water (you can also use two beaten eggs, but the pastry…
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A Pre-Purim Peek at the Kosher Food & Wine Experience
The 10th annual , held at Chelsea Piers last week, featured an exciting lineup of kosher wine, spirits and tasty treats — many of which came from first-time vendors at the event. With the new KWFE 2016 phone app ready to go (no more paper pamphlets to scribble my notes in!), I began wandering the…
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Zahav Alum To Open Jewish Bakery in Philly — and More Hot Dish
A veteran of Michael Solomonov’s Zahav is striking out on her own with a bakery focused on Jewish breads. Thirty-year-old chef Tova du Plessis, who’s been a line cook at Zahav and worked the kitchens in a gamut of Philadelphia hotspots, will open the Jewish-baked-goods-focused next month on Passyunk Avenue, home to a vibrant indie-restaurant…
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Popular Toronto Deli Spreading Chutzpah Across Canada
An image of Zane Caplansky hanging in one of his deli’s Pearson International Airport offshoots. Look out, world: , the hugely popular Toronto deli, is about to expand in a big way. “Canada needs a little chutzpah, and I’ve got plenty to spare,” Zane Caplansky, the restaurant’s irrepressible founder, told the Forward. “Our goal is…
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Time To Get Serious About Cereal
On National Cereal Day, forget the Frosted Flakes and try one of these awesome alternatives. In her weekly breakfast column, , Leah Koenig explored all sorts of imaginative alternatives to your basic cereal and milk. Here are a few of her delicious discoveries: Mamaliga On a trip to Romania, Koenig discovered a delicious porridge, which…
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Books The Making of ‘Falafel Nation’
Yael Raviv (above) is author of “Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel (Studies of Jews in Society).” by Yael Raviv, is a work of culinary anthropology that looks at the founding of the state of Israel through the prism of food. The book (University of Nebraska Press) is the outgrowth…
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My Breakfast With Mario Batali
Yesterday morning, I spent my breakfast time with Mario Batali. Okay, no, we didn’t actually speak. But there he was in all of his orange Crocs, shorts-in-February, scrunchied-ponytail glory. And I had just finished a latte. So that counts, right? I was attending a taping of , ABC’s food-focused daytime talk show. (A family friend…
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70-Layer Blini Tower at Mile End Deli
Meet New York’s most outrageous brunch offering, courtesy of Noah and Rae Bernamoff’s . It’s a 70-layer blini tower, and AMNY reports that it takes 30 minutes just to compile it, which doesn’t count the time it takes a prep cook to make each of the 35 blini that comprise its structure.) Inside each layer:…
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Fillmore District Gets Deli and All the Weekly Dish
A once-Jewish San Francisco neighborhood gets a new deli. The empire keeps expanding. Owners Evan Bloom and Leo Beckerman opened a new location in San Francisco’s historically Jewish Fillmore neighborhood last week. The Fillmore District once thrived “with Jewish-owned bakeries, restaurants, shops and kosher markets. There were synagogues, a Yiddish Cultural Center and a Jewish…
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Gillibrand Urges More Kosher Food to Food Banks
JTA — U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand asked the Department of Agriculture about reports of shortages of halal and kosher food at food banks. “I am deeply concerned by reports of shortages of Kosher and Halal foods available to the many observant individuals and families facing hunger and food insecurity in New York and throughout our…
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