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Always a Good Time for Cheese
I am of the firm opinion that it is always a good time for cheese. I recently learned that the Shavuot holiday has a strong dairy component. I had never known this before, but I was very happy to discover this a day or two after I had completed a highly successful experiment in cheese…
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Reflecting on the Jewish Environmental Movement
Smash! Squeeze! Study! These were three tasks to choose from: the smashers would be taking hammers or use their fists to crush the apples, the squeezers would be sweeping the apple chunks into the wooden juicer to press, and the studiers would be reading and discussing Jewish texts related to apples, eating and the sabbatical…
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Toronto’s Fat Pasha Serves Up Jewish Food — With Attitude
It was the Tweet that sparked a virtual feeding frenzy: “For good Jew food, call 647-340-6142.” That’s the phone number for Fat Pasha, the new 50-seat restaurant from bad-boy Toronto restaurateur Anthony Rose. And with its down-and-dirty takes on old-school Semitic staples — and a healthy dose of humor — it’s become the city’s hottest…
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Kosher Meets Sichuan at Boston’s Black Trumpet
Boston’s becoming the hotbed of adventurous Jewish cuisine served in pop-up quarters. Last month, the Forward reported on Kitchen Kibitz, a roving supper club that mashes up Mexican and Asian foods with traditional Jewish staples — think latkes with mole poblano or challah with nori. Now, a pair of “social entrepreneurs” is launching a monthly…
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Why Are We Obsessed With Cupcakes? David Sax Knows
It was the humble cupcake that set David Sax on a years-long quest to explore how food trends emerge, evolve, and explode — often at warp speed. “The cupcake was the food trend that kicked off the 21st century,” he told the Forward. “It was the first food trend to grow up on the internet,…
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15,000 Pounds of Hummus Recalled Over Listeria
Target Put down the hummus! Hot Mama’s Foods which makes hummus for Target, Trader Joe’s, and Giant Eagle has recalled 14,860 pounds of hummus that may be contaminated with listeria. The company, which makes hummus under the popular brand name Archer Farms has released a full list of which “flavors” to avoid including Trader Joe’s…
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Urban Adamah Slaughters Chickens Privately After Controversy
thinkstock Urban Adamah privately slaughtered 15 chickens that were scheduled to be killed as part of a public kosher slaughter workshop on May 4 that was canceled after community outcry. Adam Berman, executive director of the Berkeley farm and education center, disclosed the news in an email to J. this week. The chickens, which were…
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Katz’s Deli Defies Flood To Stay Open
World-famous Katz’s Delicatessen remains open for business following a water main break right in front of it at the intersection of E. Houston and Ludlow Streets on the Lower East Side on Thursday morning. The break is reported to have taken place took shortly before 11 a.m., and all lanes of East Houston Street were…
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Sabra Pushes for Hummus ‘Standards’ Law
Sabra, the popular U.S. hummus company, petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to create a standard for which dips are considered hummus. Sabra would like hummus to be defined as “the semisolid food prepared from mixing cooked, dehydrated, or dried chickpeas and tahini with one or more optional ingredients,” according to a news release Monday….
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Shabbat Dinner at the Chinese Herbalist’s Home
The kitchen walls are coated, floor to ceiling, in tiny bags of Chinese herbs, their Chinese names transliterated beneath them. In the living room the art is simple — charts of the body, the channels and meridians for acupuncture. There are enough couches to seat a family of fifteen. You don’t expect Chabadnicks to become…
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Chatting with Herring Young Gun Jacob Frommer
Jacob Frommer loves everything herring. But he’s far from your quintessential old man at kiddush. A 26 year old working in education technology, Frommer began trying herring as a way to connect to Eastern European Judaism of yore and quickly fell in love — seeking out the best herring wherever he goes from shul kiddush…
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