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Mother’s Day Brunch With a Brooklyn Beat
Watch chef Ilan Hall whip up a spring brunch with soul. For fans of and telegenic chef-owner Ilan Hall, spring brings a double helping of good news. First, Hall and his business partners announced they’re reopening their Los Angeles restaurant, which shuttered right after its Brooklyn offshoot opened. Downtown foodie mecca Grand Central Market will…
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Recipes Ilan Hall’s Cucumber Salad
To see the chef make this salad as part of a spring brunch, . At the Gorbals, we use Persian cucumbers, as the seeds are not as large and bitter as English cucumbers. For the dressing 1 cup extra virgin olive oil 1/3 cup white wine vinegar 2½ teaspoon sumac 1½ teaspoons za’atar 2 teaspoons…
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Food Critic and Meat ‘Evangelist’ Josh Ozersky Dies in Chicago
Josh Ozersky in 2013 in an episode of Ozersky.tv. (Reuters) – Josh Ozersky, an award-winning food critic who preached the wonders of eating meat and founded the Meatopia outdoor food festival, has died in Chicago at age 47. Ozersky was found dead on Monday in a room in Chicago’s Conrad Hotel, the Cook County Medical…
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Israeli-American Chef Wins James Beard Award
James Beard Award-winning chef Alon Shaya. Israeli-American chef Alon Shaya was named best chef in the South by the James Beard Foundation. Shaya, 37, broke through as the winner after being a finalist in the category for the past three years. He was recognized for his work as the executive chef at the Domenica restaurant…
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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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