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Passover Prep: The Best Chametz To Eat in NYC
I’m just going to say it: I love bread. If it were socially acceptable, there’d be a baguette sticking out of my purse at all times. A bagel with cream cheese and nova is on my last meal short list and bread pudding makes my knees go weak. I’m a fan of all of bread’s…
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How To Become a Citizen Farmer
Daron Joffe was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin in 1995 when he ate a turkey sandwich that changed his life. “I looked at it and realized there’s so much I don’t know about it,” the Oakland resident, 37, recalled recently. “There are so many things I didn’t know about where food comes from…
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Liberating Message of Raw Passover
What would it be like to live the life you love, and live it powerfully? Sometimes, choosing to incorporate or eliminate certain foods can make all the difference. How does the word “raw” connect to Passover? In the desert we were inexperienced. The weather made our skin raw. We experienced gut wrenching raw fear, and…
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Battle for Kosher Lower East Side Ends — Sadly
After a prickly debate that nearly became a referendum on the Lower East Side’s Jewish character, a non-kosher diner will fill the space that once housed Noah’s Ark Deli, the neighborhood’s last full-service kosher restaurant. The owner of Comfort Diner, an 18-year-old Midtown restaurant, was awarded the lease for the space next to the Seward…
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An African-Israeli Cafe Grows in Harlem
One doesn’t expect to see a mezuzah outside a restaurant in the midst of a bustling Harlem street. The block of 116th street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard is lined with bodegas, hardware stores and soul food spots. But upon closer inspection the embellished clay ornament at the light blue store front of Silvana, a café…
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Can Sabra Prevent a Hummus Crisis?
Hummus might be a constant presence in many Jewish household fridges, but the delicious chickpea dip still has a long way to go to gain nationwide popularity. Eighty million Americans, or a quarter of the population, have never heard of the Middle Eastern snack, Sabra, the biggest US producer, recently told Fast Company. According to…
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Recipes Israeli Salads To Kick the Final Days of Winter
(Haaretz) — For the interval between having filled ourselves with hamantaschen and stuffing ourselves with matza brei and matza ball soups, here are three light and airy end-of-winter salads. Carrot ribbons with harissa aioli This salad is a contemporary play on the classic Moroccan carrot salad. The carrots here are raw, and shaved into ribbons;…
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The Miracle of Maple Syrup
Since I moved to the Adamah Farm 10 months ago, I have witnessed many miracles. I don’t mean the kind of miracles we often think of, in a biblical sense: an event that defies all laws of nature, and happens only once-in-a-lifetime (or only once-in-history, and only a very long time ago). In fact, the…
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Is Schnitzel the New Falafel?
After three years of slinging their creative takes on Israeli schnitzel at Brooklyn food fair Smorgasburg, SchnitzNYC has finally gone brick and mortar. The owners and siblings Donna and Yoni Erlich, are offering new twists on the classic scnitzel at their new spot in the East Village. Their Israeli schnitzel, which is slightly thicker than…
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Bacon-Flavored Ritz Crackers — Kosher!
(JTA) — Ritz has a new bacon-flavored cracker hitting shelves. But unlike most things bacon-related, this Nabisco product bears a kosher symbol. “There was much discussion over the decision about this product,” said Rabbi Moshe Elefant, COO of the Orthodox Union Kashrut Department. The box for the new Ritz cracker has the signature O.U.-Dairy certification…
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James Deen, Jewish Porn Star — And Foodie?
Turns out, James Deen has hobbies. And those hobbies include food. The Jewish porn star is now the face of a culinary web series, aptly named “James Deen Loves Food.” Produced by Woodrocket.com (a porn/comedy site that is definitey NSFW), past episodes have shown Deen coming up with the world’ most expensive burrito, ordering the…
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