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Tomato-Basil Cousous Is Picnic Perfection
The classic pairing of tomato and basil is always great over grilled bread, but mix it with Israeli couscous and it becomes a splendid summer salad. One of my favorite signs that summer has arrived is biting into a tomato that’s been sprinkled with some fresh basil, and realizing that it actually is fresh! Every…
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Seamless Goes ‘Kosher Style’ (Bacon Included)
JTA — Kosher users of the popular food-delivery website may have noticed a subtle but significant change in recent weeks: The website’s category for kosher eateries has shifted from “kosher” to “kosher style.” In New York, that means seekers of kosher food will find not only mainstays like hummus, pastrami sandwiches and matzo-ball soup on…
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Cake Pops in D.C. and All the Week’s Hot Dish
Washington’s cake (pop) boss made these. Here’s one to watch: Haley Raphael is the 23-year-old founder of , which specializes in push-up cake pops inspired by classic ice-cream pops. Washington Jewish Week reports she’s already receiving franchise requests from around the world; at the moment, she’s a very busy one-woman show out of an incubator…
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Recipes 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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