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Mamaliga Porridge With Plum Compote
The ultimate Jewish breakfast porridge, Romanian mamaliga is served here with sour cream and a seasonal plum compote. Last spring, , I traveled around Romania with my friends Julie and Benjy. Julie was also pregnant, right around 6 months like I was, and we saw the trip as a last hurrah before life got different….
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Pommes Frites Explores Life After Second Avenue Explosion
Golden fries served in a signature paper cone at the original Pommes Frites, which was destroyed in a gas explosion on the Lower East Side last spring. For weeks after the devastating March explosion that destroyed an East Village block, Omer Shorshi kept thinking he had to get to his restaurant. Moments later, Shorshi would…
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You Say Wonton. I Say Kreplach.
“Pumpernickel is Jewish; white bread is goyish,” said comedian Lenny Bruce in the early 1960s, asserting that Jews instinctively categorize everything as Jewish or not. We agree, especially when it comes to food. Fast-forward 50 years. Much has changed on the culinary landscape since Bruce got arrested for using the word shmuck onstage. These days,…
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Fruit of the Vine
If there is one sentence in the Tanach that makes me yearn for summer, it is, “But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.” [Micah 4:4] In my mind’s eye is a…
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Recipes How to Make Stuffed Grape Leaves
These treats offer both sweet and savory tastes, and smooth and crunchy textures. No gooey, gelatinous rice in these beauties. They are guaranteed to garner raves from your guests. For the Jewish history behind the grape, . Makes 36 6 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, chopped fine 2/3 cup your choice of rice mixture (I…
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Carnegie Still Closed and All the Week’s Hottest Dish
Where will all those tourists get their overstuffed sandwiches? Still Out of Gas at the Carnegie Deli Carnegie Deli, which was in April because of an illegal gas line, will stay shuttered at least another few weeks, the New York Times says. “We’re in the process of paying the necessary fines in order to obtain…
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The High Cost of a $1 Slice
There might be a high cost for those dollar pizza slices. A class-action lawsuit is charging the Jewish owners of New York City’s with putting employees through 60- to 70-hour workweeks for less than minimum wage and no overtime, the Daily News reported today. Eli and Oren Halali and their father Joshua, who own the…
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Body of Ex-White House Chef Found in New Mexico Mountains
The body of a former White House chef last seen setting off for a hike alone more than a week ago near Taos, New Mexico, has been found, according to media reports. Searchers late Sunday found Walter Scheib, 61, dead in a forest near Taos Ski Valley on the fifth day of the search-and-rescue mission,…
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Beyond the Bagel — The Shuka Truck
Purely for research purposes, you understand, the author sampled both the traditional red shakshuka and the green version, with a sauce of asparagus and spinach. The website for — a recently opened, kosher-certified food truck in New York City — says it opens for business at 9 in the morning. That makes sense. Shakshuka, a…
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Scenes From a Foodie Street Fair
A Montreal-style pastrami sandwich from was just one of the many fabulous foods on offer at the Workmen’s Circle’s Taste of Jewish Culture street fair. It was supposed to be a washout. Heavy rain, flooding rain, pouring rain… That’s what I kept hearing, all week long. But the intrepid organizers of The Workmen’s Circle’s Taste…
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Dirt Candy’s Bet on Veggies Pays Off
Amanda Cohen, chef-owner of Dirt Candy. (Reuters) – Chef took a gamble in 2008 when she opened a tiny restaurant in New York City called Dirt Candy, which focused on vegetables at a time when bacon was the rage among food enthusiasts. Cohen moved the original 18-seat restaurant to a new location on the Lower…
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