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Mixing Bowl: Kosher Picnic Recipes
Check out Gil Marks’s new column on cakes over at the History Kitchen. His strawberry shortcake makes a perfect summer Shabbat dessert. [History Kitchen] 10 Great kosher picnic dishes to know. [Food 52] Headed to London soon? Check out the city’s newest kosher restaurant. [Yeah That’s Kosher] Solo Restaurant is going dairy! Get read for…
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Meet the Last Jewish Waiter — at Katz’s Deli
When David Manheim first started working at Katz’s Deli, he was a teenager promoting their delivery service and was paid in sandwiches. When he came back five years ago as a waiter, he knew he wouldn’t leave until he made something to showcase the soul of Katz’s, as he pegs it: “The Empire State Building…
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Happy 125th Birthday, Katz’s Deli! To Many More Years of Pastrami
Since Katz’s, that holiest of holy sites for pastrami worship, opened in 1888, Yiddish theatre actors, immigrants from countless countries, politicians, movie stars and grandparents visiting from Florida have come to fress on the deli’s superb sandwiches. The Jewish food landmark turns 125 this weekend, so to celebrate, we took a walk down memory lane,…
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Recipes A Feast of the Forest
Erin Gleeson’s story reads like a modern homestead fairy tale: Hardworking city photographer meets and marries the man of her dreams (a reform rabbi named Jonathan), moves with him to a cabin in the woods and launches a blog chronicling the couple’s amazing feasts from her rustic, sun-drenched kitchen. That kitchen, which spills out onto…
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Michael Solomonov Has Left the (Kosher) Building
Well, that didn’t last long. We’re talking about star chef Michael Solomonov’s tenure at Citron and Rose, the hot new kosher fine dining establishment in suburban Philadelphia. Only half a year after opening the restaurant with owner David Magerman, Solmonov, known for his innovative Israeli-inspired fare at Zahav, and his partner Steve Cook are pulling…
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Best Kosher Hot Dog? Chicago’s Romanian!
Last week, hot dog aficionado Eli Cohn-Wein laid out his eight favorite kosher dogs to grill up this summer. As a dog devotee, I was excited to see which was crowned king. But, as I read through the list, I realized some great franks — including my favorite, Romanian Kosher — are conspicuously absent. I…
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Mixing Bowl: Weekend Desserts, Harrods Goes Kosher
New Israeli food is taking over New York. [New York Magazine] Planning a swanky wedding in London? Harrods is now catering kosher simchas! [Jewish Chronicle] Three words: Smores Ice Cream. [Food52] Incase that doesn’t suit you, here are 20 other desserts, perfect for Memorial Day celebrations. [Serious Eats] Smithsonian Magazine just released it’s annual food…
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John Kerry Stops To Smell the Shwarma
Secretary of State John Kerry stepped off the diplomatic track on Thursday and onto a West Bank street where he sampled a shawarma sandwich and a pistachio-sprinkled Palestinian sweet. In a rare gesture for a U.S. secretary of state – but a staple of U.S. political campaigns – Kerry dropped by the Samer Restaurant in…
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The Truth Behind Tnuva
Tnuva, the giant Israeli food company, made headlines this week with an admission that was stunningly candid, if not exactly a revelation. In documents filed in Jerusalem District Court, Tnuva admitted that the slaughter of farm animals, if exposed to public view, “would horrify most meat-eating consumers.” It’s one thing for Paul McCartney, the former…
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GMOs and Jewish Law: Chemical Herbicides and Pesticides
As our knowledge of our world broadens and through science we come to new understandings of our surroundings, new complications and questions arise in how we observe kosher dietary laws. While we so often focus on the ethical issues of meat, we lose sight on the ethical ramifications of how we pursue a different matter…
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Confessions of an Ignorant Eater
I had gotten lazy. I’ll admit it. Since getting married almost five years ago, I had not really set foot in a kitchen (to cook, that is — I wash plenty of dishes). Not that I was any great chef before. But I was a bachelor, living alone, and I had my meager repertoire, including…
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