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Israel’s Top Tables and All the Weekly Dish
Israel’s top foodie, Gil Hovav, a chef, restaurant critic, cookbook author and TV personality, reveals his favorite restaurants. offers up tips this week on Israel’s hottest tables from Tel Aviv-based restaurant critic Gil Hovav. Among his picks: Creative bistro Pastel at the Tel Aviv Museum](http://www.pastel-tlv.com “”); Talbiye, a Jerusalem hotspot from the team behind [Machneyuda…
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Recipes Beyond the Bagel — Moving Breakfast
Moving is always hard. Moving in New York City is harder. The real estate game is hyper competitive and frenzied, and one rarely ends up with more than a month (often much less) to whittle down, then gather up belongings before handing over the keys. As my family and I packed up our apartment to…
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Chubby Chickpea Kosher No More
Boston’s first kosher food truck is backing up on its kosher certification. , whose opening the Forward touted in 2013, Tweeted last week that “effective immediately our truck has decided to give up its Kosher Certification. Love the KVH; just made sense.” KVH is the kashrut division of the Rabbinical Council of New England. In…
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Recipes 2 Easy Recipes To Keep You Cool As A Cuke
Fresh kirby cukes from the farmers’ market are the foundation of an excellent — and very easy — cold cucumber soup (left) and a sweet-and-sour salad from Carol Ungar’s cookbook, “Jewish Soul Food.” There’s nothing like a just-picked summer cucumber from the farmers’ market — or the garden, if you happen to be so lucky….
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Recipes Sweet-and-Sour Cucumber Salad
We substituted shallots for the onion in this recipe because we had them on hand and loved the look of the purple color against the green of the cucumber. Uborka salata, Hungarian Jewish sweet-and-sour cucumber salad, actually benefits from a long stay in the fridge. That’s why it is such a perfect choice for Seudah…
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Bay-Area Bagel Saviors and All the Weekly Dish
San Francisco’s Bagel Saviors Amid all the about lousy bagels in the Bay Area comes this welcome bit of news: Evan Bloom and Leo Beckerman of Wise Sons deli will open a bagel shop this month on Fillmore St. in San Francisco, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Bloom and Beckerman will aim to crank out…
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Confessions of a Herring Hater
A trio of pickled herring on pumpernickel from Russ & Daughters Café (above) may be an exemplary version of the classic Eastern-European breakfast staple — but it couldn’t convince our author to give up her intense dislike of the stuff. I want to love herring. I do. The oily little fish are healthy (packed with…
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Bay-Area Bagel Deficiency? A Response to the Times
Oakland, California’s Authentic Bagel Company, owned by Mark and Jason Scott (above), wasn’t mentioned in the Times’ Bay-Area bagel takedown. When the paper of record devotes almost 3,000 words of its Sunday magazine to the issue of , you know this is a matter of gravitas; that this is truly serious. Poking around the website…
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Recipes 3 Meatless Main Dishes for the Nine Days
During the first nine days of the month Av, observant Jews abstain from eating meat, in a collective act of mourning. Meat lovers, fear not! Going vegetarian for a while is healthy and delicious. These three recipes require little prep work and are satisfying enough to make you forget they’re meatless. Related Tofu Over Ratatouille…
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Recipes Ratatouille With Baked Tofu
Tofu ratatouille makes a great vegetarian main dish. Related Read: Make: Bean Salad With Couscous When I’m craving something stew-like, I love to make veggie ratatouille. Topping it with tofu gives the meal more substance, and I often buy baked tofu that’s already marinated. This dish pairs particularly well with a sesame-ginger-flavored tofu. Serves 4…
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Recipes Bean Salad Over Couscous
A delicious meatless main course. Beans are a vegetarian staple — they’re packed with protein and fiber to keep you satisfied. The lemon-tahini dressing is simple to make and is a healthy alternative to a store-bought dressing. Related Ratatouille With Baked Tofu Serves 4 For the salad 1 15-ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained…
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