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Labneh With Tomatoes, Pesto and Tapenade
From the new cookbook “Yogurt Culture.” . My inspiration for this recipe comes from a dip I enjoyed at the boisterous Jerusalem restaurant Machneyuda. There, Chef Uri Navon serves several colorful spreads in a single bowl, and the result, which resembles a painter’s palette, is both playful and renegade. I start with a base of…
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Chicken Soup With Crunch
I never once considered the possibility that a chicken soup-flavored potato chip would soothe my soul. Then I journeyed to the fictional land of Ten Acre village, where I discovered to my surprise that this snack was not only appealing to my vegetarian palate but actually quite tasty. And I wasn’t even cheating. The flavored…
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New Mediterranean Mashup and All the Weekly Dish
Chef Nir Mesika. New Mediterranean in New York Nir Mesika, former executive chef of Brooklyn’s beloved Middle Eastern joint has hung out his own shingle in the East Village. Contemporary Mediterranean spot Timna opened last week with fusion-y plates like Yemenite kubaneh bread with heirloom tomatoes, roasted cauliflower with labane and “Mediterranean sashimi” of sea…
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50 Experiments With Tahini
Tahini, the main ingredient in sesame halva, can be mixed with countless other flavors. Recently, a good friend of mine invited me over for breakfast. She knows me well, so she didn’t omit any of the foods I love to eat in an Israeli breakfast: shakshuka, a good white cheese, Arab salad, homemade bread… There…
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Beet, Chocolate-Pistachio and Chia Tahini Recipes
Beet tahini and silan (date honey) tahini make a brightly colored pairing. After tasting a beet-flavored tahini dip recently, I decided to . With the help of 20 pounds of tahini, I came up with a few dozen extremely easy recipes for colorful, flavorful tahini. Here are a few to get you started: Read 50…
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Kosher Dining Hall Comes to College of Charleston
Dara Rosenblatt, the Jewish student life program coordinator at the College of Charleston, at an Israel fest celebration on campus, April 23, 2015. Renowned for its gracious architecture and signature Southern charm, Charleston is increasingly celebrated as a foodie heaven. The trouble is, in a city whose culinary specialties embrace (and glorify) oysters, she-crab soup…
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Recipes Fresh Zesty Dandelion Salad
Once considered nothing more than a pesky weed, it is now a gourmet green. Just take a look at the four delicious dandelion-green recipes below. Even though we now live near a supermarket after years in the remote countryside, we still strive to grow as much of our food as we can and we still…
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A Tel Aviv Dinner Ready for Its Closeup
Dinner and a photo workshop at Catit restaurant in Tel Aviv. Taking pictures of food and uploading them to social-media sites like Instagram has become de rigeur for many smartphone users. That’s why Tel Aviv’s Carmel Winery teamed up with restaurant Catit to create what they call Foodography — a dining experience that gives patrons…
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It’s International Hummus Day!
When I walked into the office today, my colleague Anne told me it was International Hummus Day. How did I miss that? I asked, a little embarrassed. I did some quick research and here’s what I learned: International Hummus Day is a relatively new holiday. It was started in 2012 by a young entrepreneur named…
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Recipes Mindy Segal’s ‘Cookie Love’
from a new cookbook devoted entirely to cookies. “Everyone has a cookie recipe, everyone’s got a cookie story,” James Beard Award-winning chef Mindy Segal explained when I ask her about the cover of ‘Cookie Love,’ her recently published cookbook. The double chocolate cookies doused with warming spices, craggy with golden toasted marshmallow and sprinkled with…
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Streit’s Factory Fetches $30 Million
The oldest family-owned matzo company in the United States, Streit’s Matzo, is in contract to sell its Lower East Side factory buildings for a reported $30.5 million. According to New York real estate blog , a deed was filed with the city May 11 confirming the sale of the 90-year-old buildings to Cogswell Realty, a…
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