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Conflict Kitchen Closes Doors After Death Threats
Photograph courtesy of Conflict Kitchen After receiving a letter containing death threats, Pittsburgh’s Conflict Kitchen, which has been serving Palestinian food since early October, announced on its Facebook page Friday that it was shutting its doors until further notice. “We will be closed until the credibility of the letter can be established by the Pittsburgh…
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Caught Between Gefilte Fish and Campbell’s Soup
Photograph by Edsel Little; Flickr When I first gravitated toward writing about food and immigration to the United States as an ostensibly serious academic, colleagues asked me — and, frankly, I asked myself — the obvious question. Why food? Food perhaps lacked the gravitas and significance of subjects like political, labor or immigration history. Academics…
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Autumnal Salad, Starring Beets and Arugula
As seasonal as it is healthful, this salad is also totally delicious. Photograph by Hadas Margulies As the weather gets chilly, I tend to forget how satisfying a good, hearty salad can be. But then, fresh beets at the farmer’s market remind me that I still need to eat my veggies. This salad, packed with…
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Cafe Edison, Jewish Theater District Spot, Closing
(JTA) — Another old-school New York Jewish institution is about to fall victim to gentrification. The New York Times reports that Cafe Edison, a modest Theater District coffee shop long favored by Broadway’s cognoscenti, has been asked to leave by the owner of the hotel in which it is located. While not kosher, Cafe Edison…
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From Minsk to Marrakesh… to Manhattan
Photograph by Daniel Lailah I had the pleasure of attending two fabulous Jewish-food events this week. The first was a celebration of Janna Gur’s new cookbook, “Jewish Soul Food: From Minsk to Marrakesh” (Shocken Books), at Einat Admony’s cozy Balaboosta restaurant. There were delicious dishes made from recipes in the book, including two savory Moroccan…
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Baking Chez Dorie Greenspan
Fruit-and-nut croquants, baked by the author, from Dorie Greenspan’s ‘Baking Chez Moi.’ Photograph by Gayle L. Squires Dorie Greenspan has cracked the code of how the French bake at home for family and close friends. Forget the fussy confections on display in pastry shop windows in even the smallest Gallic towns. In her latest cookbook,…
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Dorie’s Fruit and Nut Croquants
Photograph by Gayle L. Squires The word croquant can be both an adjective and a noun. As an adjective, it’s easy: It means “crunchy.” As a noun, it can be confusing: It usually refers to a cookie, but there are bunches of cookies that carry the appellation and, depending on who’s making them and where,…
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Dorie’s Palets de Dames
Photograph by Alan Richardson The word palet means “puck,” and you find it used most often by chocolatiers, who make pucks of ganache and enrobe them in chocolate. But the only thing puckish about these cookies is their adorableness. With wide, flat uppers iced in white and rounded bottoms, they look like children’s tops or…
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My Great (Losing) Cook-Off With the In-Laws
Thinkstock by Getty Images My in-laws and I are in the middle of an all-out competition, a head-to-head contest that has been raging for years, since my husband and I started dating. What are we competing over? Culinary supremacy. They’re winning handily, and they don’t even know it. In fact, they’d be shocked to know…
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Truce Achieved Through Cheesecake
Photograph by Hillary Berkowitz Nussbaum I’ve mastered my family’s desserts, from the flourless chocolate roll to the sour cream coffee cake, but my husband’s favorite — cheesecake — always escaped me. I couldn’t let it go, and finally mastered it by sticking to my new strategy: Rather than tackling the tried-and-true, I put my own…
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New York Has a New Gluten-Free Eatery
Chef Franklin Becker stands proud before his beet. Photograph by Liz Barclay Exciting news for gluten-avoiders and healthy eaters: The Little Beet Table opens today in New York’s Flatiron District. A spinoff of chef Franklin Becker’s café, The Little Beet, the new restaurant will offer a more formal, sit-down vibe. According to the chef, the…
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