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Ottolenghi’s Favorite Cookbooks, The Perfect Bagel
We LOVE Yotam Ottolenghi (and hope you do too). He dishes on his favorite cookbooks. [Serious Eats] What makes a perfect bagel? Mary Ting Hyatt tries to answer the unanswerable. [The Kitchn] If that made you hungry, here’s where to get 10 of the best bagels in New York. [Village Voice] How to Throw the…
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Recipes Silk Road Vegetarian: Central Asian Flavors in Your Kitchen
The flavors in Dahlia Abraham-Klein’s newest (and first) cookbook Silk Road Vegetarian: Vegan, Vegetarian and Gluten Free Recipes for the Mindful Cook are as exotic and storied as her family’s background, which incorporates Iraqi, Persian, Afghani, Indian, and Bukharian traditions. Her family’s journey followed the path of the Silk Road, historic trade routes connecting East…
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Recipes Baked Falafel for Meatless Mondays
In college, Mondays meant falafel. It started when Soom Soom, an amazing Kosher eatery on 72nd St., had falafel happy hour. Two sandwiches for the price of one. My fellow students and I would pair up and walk over for dinner. We’d cram into the tiny joint, bask in half-price falafel yumminess, and enjoy the…
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Don’t Eat That
There’s a restaurant in Denver, where I grew up, that attracts masses of people, mostly Jews, and serves pages and pages of Jewish food – latkes and matzah balls and bagels with capers, cream cheese, lox and red onion. They also serve bacon. And sausage. And ham. Meat from a most essentially non-kosher animal. So…
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Ivan Orkin: How a Nice Jewish Guy Became a Ramen Master
Long Island-native Ivan Orkin doesn’t see himself as an American — though he speaks with a New York accent and went to culinary school at the Culinary Institute of America. His life-long love affair with Japan helped him become a ramen star in Tokyo. He’s fluent in Japanese, and since college, he has lived mainly…
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Female Kosher Supervisors Make Strides in Israel
Nine women took the Chief Rabbinate’s exam to be kosher inspectors — the first time females were permitted to take the test. The women took the exam Wednesday in a separate room from the 200 men taking the test at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem. Allowing the women to take the test resolved a…
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Why I Stand By Urban Adamah
thinkstock In August of 2012, I ran one of my first kosher slaughter workshops at the Urban Adamah educational farm in Berkeley. I explained the kosher process and demonstrated live slaughter and processing on a few of their spent laying hens. Several participants cried during the slaughter and while some were inspired to eat better…
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Baz Bagels Makes Its Debut
New York is having an appetizing moment. Black Seed, Noah Bernamoff’s artisan-bagel emporium, opened last month in Nolita; Russ & Daughters’ long-awaited Lower East Side café finally made its debut today. And down the street, a pair of newcomers are throwing their hats in the bagel ring with an honest-to-God appetizing shop, bagel bar, and…
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Wexler’s Brings The Deli Revolution to L.A.
Artisan delis have popped up in Portland, New York and San Francisco in recent years with up-and-coming chefs riffing on their grandparents’ pastrami sandwiches and matzo ball — while cooking up an antidote to the Jewish deli’s widespread demise. But the deli revolution hadn’t reached Los Angeles, at least not until now. Last week, chef…
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Russ and Daughters Cafe To Open May 7
The Lower East Side has changed radically since many of our grandparents and great grandparents came through the immigrant neighborhood. But small markers of its Jewish past remain — if you know where to look. Perhaps one of the best ones is the iconic neon Russ & Daughters Appetizing sign on East Houston. When the…
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Nancy Silverton Nabs James Beard Award
Member of the tribe Nancy Silverton, the California baker and chef who parlayed a passion for artisan bread into a popular pizza enterprise, was named outstanding U.S. chef of the year on Monday by the James Beard Foundation. Silverton co-owns Pizzeria Mozza and the restaurant Osteria Mozza in Los Angeles with celebrity chef Mario Batali,…
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