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Meet the ‘Jew-bano’ Sandwich
With pastrami from Katz’s, a pickle from Pickle Guys and a bialy from Kossar’s, this twist on the cubano is a reflection of its Lower East Side roots. Photograph courtesy of The Comfort. There’s a new tenant at 399 Grand Street. The onetime site of Noah’s Ark, the Lower East Side’s last full-service kosher restaurant,…
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Recipes A Yemenite Meal in NYC With an Israeli Food Star
The meal on offer includes a traditional Yemenite beef soup called marak basar Teimani (top left), and kubaneh, a yeast-risen bread (on the square plate). Photographs by Adeena Sussman. Gil Hovav, Israel’s biggest food celebrity and an unofficial ambassador of the country’s cuisine, will be in New York next week to host a series of…
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Hain Celestial Group Acquires Empire Kosher
Hain Celestial Group, a leading distributor of organic foods, has purchased Empire Kosher Poultry, the biggest kosher poultry producer in the United States. Kosher Today reports that Hain already owned 20 percent of Empire’s parent corporation, EK Holdings, so the $57.5 million deal gives Hain the remaining 80 percent. Industry experts report that the acquisition…
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Oregon Couple to Brew Kosher Kegs
Theo and Sonia Marie Leikam are opening a community-supported kosher brewery in their Portland backyard. Photograph by Anthony Weiss. (JTA) — For Theo and Sonia Marie Leikam, the dream is nearly complete. Behind the couple’s tidy Victorian house on a tree-lined street in southeast Portland, Oregon, is a pitched-roof building that vaguely resembles a garage…
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The Weekly Dish
New York’s new modern Mexican fast-casual place, Oxido. Facebook. What happens when a Mexican chef, a Korean restaurant franchisee, and a Jewish entrepreneur go out to eat? No, it’s not a Borscht Belt setup; the answer’s a snazzy “modern Mexican” restaurant that just opened in Manhattan’s Flatiron district. Oxido is the brainchild of Shmilly Gruenstein,…
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A Final Tour of Streit’s Lower East Side Factory
Photographs by Thea Glassman Gina Cecala came into Streit’s Matzos on Tuesday morning in search of black-pepper matzo — and to pay her respects. “When I read in the newspaper that you guys were moving, I almost died,” she said, loading her purchases onto the counter. “So many years you’ve been here. I feel so…
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Recipes A Healthy Meal Between Holidays
Roasted wild salmon over lentils. Photograph by Liza Schoenfein. I’m always aware that the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s is a high-calorie danger zone, so I tend to be fairly mindful. I just realized that I’m usually less conscious — and therefore less careful — between Purim and Passover. But here we are, sandwiched…
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WATCH: Schmear Lunacy!
Watch and learn, people. Watch and learn. You know, I just wasn’t getting enough calories and fat from the regular slick of cream cheese I usually spread on my bagel. The right way, it turns out, ups the ante considerably — and involves power tools. Before you dress up another bagel for Sunday brunch, take…
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Recipes A Deli Man’s Famous Stuffed Cabbage
Third-generation deli man and former New Yorker Ziggy Gruber serves this stuffed cabbage at his Houston delicatessen, Kenny & Ziggy’s. Image: Facebook Makes 6-8 pieces of stuffed cabbage For the sauce 2 cans chopped tomatoes 2 tablespoons tomato puree 2 cups onions roughly chopped 2 cups brown sugar 1 tablespoon paprika ½ cup white vinegar…
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Digging Into Jewish Food With Wandering Chew
Katherine Romanow (left) and Sydney Warshaw of Wandering Chew. Photograph by Lauren Kolyn. They’re not trained as chefs. They haven’t cooked in restaurants. But Sydney Warshaw and Katherine Romanow are becoming two of the biggest machers in Montreal’s burgeoning Jewish food scene. As The Wandering Chew, the duo stages pop-up events that “try to teach…
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Recipes Hamantaschen Plus Math Equals Mathmataschen!
Photograph by Deborah Gardner Just a few hours before Purim, I came across this awesome creation on the blog Seattle Local Food, and just had to share it. For the non-math nerds among us, it’s a hamantaschen created using a mathematical principle known as the Sierpinski triangle. Here’s how Deborah Gardner breaks it down: You…
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