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Mimi’s in Manhattan and All the Weekly Dish
Hummus Empire Mimi’s Hummus, the six-year-old Brooklyn charmer that won a for the Big Apple’s best Israeli-style hummus, is crossing the pond. Owners Mimi Kitani and Avi Shuker will open two Manhattan outposts this summer. One will occupy a stall inside the new Vanderbilt food hall near Grand Central Station; a second will take root…
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New Bushwick Coffee Shop Owners 86 the Anti-Semitism
Back in October, , whose owner had just posted an anti-Semitic rant on social media. The café has since closed, and in its place co-owners and native New Yorkers Pierre Gutierrez and Emma-Jean Taylor have opened Stateside Bushwick, a coffee shop just as charming as they are. Even in its very beginning stages (it opened…
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Recipes Artichokes Any Which Way
I gave a cooking class to vegetarians tonight, and focused on what was in season: artichokes, asparagus, peas, mushrooms. One of my students had expressed an interest in learning how to work with artichokes, so I decided to demonstrate how to make them both raw and cooked. We did a salad and a stew. Here…
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The Sweetest Spot on the Lower East Side
A film by Thea Glassman about Economy Candy, a 70-year-old wonderland with the distinction of being the oldest Jewish family-owned business on the Lower East Side. Mitchell Cohen stands behind a counter teaming with coconut macaroons, wedges of fruit slices and chocolate-covered grahams — milk, dark and dark with jelly. Nearby his father, Jerry Cohen,…
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Haute Middle Eastern Cuisine Arrives in New Jersey
Chef Elie Kahlon of Novo puts the finishing touch on a salmon dish. Diners at Novo, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, likely appreciate the spices, imported from the Middle East, that accent their meals. Some might even be aware that their food was cooked on an open-flame oven called a taboon or that a special Arabic…
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Carnegie Deli Shut Down Over Illegal Gas Line
For once, you won’t have to deal with long lines at today. But that’s because the Midtown sandwich-and-schmooze institution has been closed by Con Edison, New York’s power company. Con Ed contends the Carnegie used “a Y-shaped piece of plumbing” to misappropriate natural gas for six years until it was abruptly shut down on Friday,…
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New East Village Mexican and All the Weekly Dish
Pulpo a la Vera Cruzana, as shown in a “Coming Soon” notice on Rosie’s Twitter feed. A Jewish guy, an Irish girl and their new Mexican “baby”: Marc Meyer and Vicki Freeman, the pair behind Big Apple favorites , Cookshop, and Hundred Acres, just opened Rosie’s in the East Village, which bills itself as an…
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Are New York’s Classic Jewish Food Spots a Dying Breed? Discuss.
Tuesday night I found myself noshing on a piece of rye bread with cream cheese and thinly sliced smoked salmon from Russ & Daughters while gazing up at four giants of New York’s Jewish food world. I was at at the 92nd Street Y, where the all-star panel consisted of Mark Federman of Russ &…
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The Liqueur-Making Jews of Curacao
JTA — The oldest continually active Jewish congregation in the Americas? Hint: Check your margarita glass. Congregation Mikve Israel Emmanuel in Curacao, home of the liqueur of the same name, holds the honor, having served the island’s Jewish community since roughly 1654. The wheels of the community were put in motion by Jaoa d’Yllan, a…
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Recipes Lemon Chiffon Bundt Cake Inspired by Israeli Limonana
JTA — This cake is inspired by limonana, the uber-popular Israeli sweet lemonade that’s always punched up with fresh mint. Limonana is really just a simple drink, but it has taken Israel by storm over the last 25 years. It’s a delicious, super sweet lemonade — tooth-achingly sweet — like a good Mississippi sweet tea….
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Food Truck Serves Up Shakshuka — and Middle East Peace?
The Shuka Team (the three 20-something Israeli pals in baseball caps) says that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (center foreground) just experienced his first taste of shakshuka — and loved every bite. “The Shuka Truck will bring the PEACE to the middle EAST,” according to a , three Israeli friends who rolled out their food truck…
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