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Tel Aviv’s 5 Best Kosher Restaurants
Blue Sky, a chef restaurant featuring Meir Adoni’s cuisine. Photo by David Bachar (Haaretz) — Diners who keep kosher have been increasingly demanding gourmet restaurants that meet their dietary requirements. The result has been a wave of excellent kosher restaurants. Following are the five best in Tel Aviv. Blue Sky: Chef Meir Adoni’s new restaurant…
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Notes from a Jewish Survivor of Anorexia
The first time I admitted to myself that I had an eating disorder was after watching a film describing eating disorders and the Jewish Community called “Hungry to be Heard.” Until that point I was lost. I became a shadow, a nothing person who craved solitude and lived by counting. It had been 4 months…
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Chocolate Shwarma — Is This Necessary?
New food crazes pop up every few months in Israel: chocolate-filled syringes, the cupcake, the kurtosh (a Hungarian cylinder shaped cake which comes in many flavors), and even the cronut made its debut in Tel Aviv this year. So it was only a matter of time until someone created a gimmicky dessert with Israeli sugar…
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Susie Fishbein Takes Israel — Well, Its Upscale Parts
If you have a lot of money and time to spend in the holy land, you would be lucky to find yourself on one of kosher cookbook author Susie Fishbein’s tours. She recently led a group of 34 from the Negev to Sfat to Tel Aviv — with stops at the artisanal Lachma Baker, a…
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Einat Admony’s Bar Bolonat Set To Open
To the many salivating fans of Israeli-born star chef Einat Admony: Your wait is nearly over. After seemingly endless construction issues, Department of Buildings complications, and “a million little details,” Admony’s much-anticipated Bar Bolonat will finally open March 25 in the West Village. “The private dining area downstairs took forever,” the chef told the Forward…
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Jeff Goldblum’s Newest Role? Restaurateur
Jeff Goldblum, it seems, per this obviously totally real clip from MTV’s “After Hours With Josh Horowitz,” is now in the restaurant business. At NYC eatery Goldblum’s, the actor is proprietor, maitre d, waiter, piano player, bartender, and more. A fantasy come true. Except for kosher folks. Sorry guys — there’s pork on the menu….
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It’s Katz v. Katz as Deli Sues Food Truck
Wikipedia (Reuters) — The owners of New York City’s iconic Katz’s Delicatessen filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the operators of local food trucks named Katz & Dogz, claiming the trucks are a blatant attempt to dupe consumers. Customers are likely to assume that the trucks, which sell the same Jewish-style fare, and the famed…
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Recipes Bake Your Own Boozy Cocktail Hamantaschen
What kind of genius came up with the idea that prunes would make a great cookie filling, to be eaten without fail once a year? Whoever they were, they were wrong. But have no fear! We have a new hamantaschen option for you this year, and it’s as delicious as a cocktail, without the embarrassment…
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Fair Trade Chocolate Hamentaschen
I’ve started noticing hamentaschen showing up in local bakeries, and it made me wonder if one of the reasons we say “Purim Sameach/Happy Purim” is because we know that we’ll be eating lots of hamentaschen, the traditional Eastern-European Purim dessert. This joyous day celebrates the repeal of the death decree against the Jewish inhabitants of…
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A Bouquet of Persian Purim Sweets
Gayle L. Squires Call it a fortuitous calendar coincidence, this year the Persian New Year festival Norooz falls during the same week as Purim. Much like the bump Hanukkah gets from Christmas, “Purim in Iran gets a boost from Norooz, the biggest Persian holiday of the year,” writes Louisa Shafia in “The New Persian Kitchen”….
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Recipes The Art of Couscous
‘For most people, you eat a hamantaschen on Purim and that’s that,” said Leetal Arazi. “We want to do something more.” Along with her husband Ron Arazi, Leetal runs NYShuk, an artisanal food company focusing on Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewish cuisines. And this Purim they’re planning a Moroccan feast with the Brooklyn-based Crow Hill…
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