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Mixing Bowl: Brisket Trend; Ethereal Hummus
Where can one find a good black and white cookie these days? Max Falkowitz has the answer. [Serious Eats] How do we love hummus? Let us count the ways (and places to eat it). Here are 14 of ‘em. [Serious Eats] If you would rather make your hummus, the great Deb Perelman has a recipe…
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Dining in the Dark at Nalaga’at
One doesn’t usually expect restaurant patrons to eat high-end cuisine with their hands. But that is precisely what guests will be encouraged to do when they dine in total darkness at a special pop-up restaurant called BlackOut in New York later this month. Not only will the restaurant be pitch black, but its waiters will…
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A Bubbie as Sweet as Sugar
How do you remember the people you love? Whenever I remember my Bubbie Ruth, I think about her sugar cookies. Anytime my family would stop into her Elmira, NY home, I would look forward to tasting her brightly colored, sugar-y cookies. Sharing the story of my Bubbie and her cookies is the reason why I…
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What’s Jack Lew Eating at the Inauguration?
What will the Orthodox White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew be eating for lunch on January 21st? We’re not quite sure, but his dining companions will be feasting on a meal that’s as treyf as they come. Earlier today the menu for the traditional Inaugural Lunch in Statuary Hall was released and it starts…
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Eating In For 31 Days
At the dawn of the new year, I found myself with a stocked kitchen, a few reusable sandwich wrappers, and a giant knot in my stomach. I had resolved to spend the first 31 days of 2013 eating in. That meant for the month of January, I would eat only food made at home or…
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Are Turkish Simits the New Bagel?
Last week, a new bagelry made a bold move. A few doors east of the Frank Bruni-approved 72nd Street Bagel on New York’s Upper West Side, Simit and Smith, a shop offering thin Turkish-style bagels called simits, opened its doors. The company launched its first of 20 stores the same week as a popular article…
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The Politics of Healthy Food
With the Israeli elections imminent, it is well to consider the issue of public policy and food. For instance, the Green Movement, as Israel’s green party has recently joined Tzipi Livni’s HaTnuah party and considers regulation of food production to be a significant componet in improving the country’s environmental policies. Livni, herself a vegetarian since…
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Recipes New Year’s Resolution Recipes
I did the most stereotypical thing one can do after the New Year. I went on a juice cleanse. Three full days existing on nothing but sludgy, vitamin and mineral-laden juice. I’ve experienced a variety of feelings: cleansed (yes, seriously), hungry, exhausted, slightly delusional, energetic, sated and, did I mention hungry? My one constant was…
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Recipes Mixing Bowl: Giving Matzo Balls a Rest; Resolution Recipes
Bubbes around the world share pictures of themselves cooking in their kitchens. So cute, we almost want to pinch someone’s cheeks. [The Kitchn] Give the old matzo ball soup a rest and try carrot soup with tahini and crisped chickpeas. [Smitten Kitchen] Things are getting real! Here are 20 unspoken truths about the food world….
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On the Move: Prime Grill Heads West
The Prime Grill, the fine dining kosher steakhouse New York Magazine calls “the go-to spot for the city’s kosher-observant movers and groovers,” is pulling up stakes on East 49th St. and moving to the west side of Midtown Manhattan. Owner Joey Allaham promises that the new space, which will seat 360, boasts a wood burning…
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Turning The Tables: Food Resolutions for the New Year
If you’re like me, January prompts you to reexamine a few bothersome behaviors — and make a few (or more) resolutions for the coming year. Making resolutions is a dangerous proposition, of course. A strictly goal-oriented approach gives us a flat, “all or nothing” mandate that can lead to failure. By February, our resolution has…
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