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Tasting Notes from the Whisky Jewbilee
The largest whisky event of the year took place last weekend at the Marriott Marquis. Stretching from sundown Friday to a later Saturday night, WhiskyFest NY was attended by hundreds of aficionados of the pungent malt. Sadly, I couldn’t make it this year, but I managed to stop by the first so-called “Whisky Jewbilee” run…
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Shabbat Meals: West African Brisket
Being an African-American who is a Jew-By-Choice means having to do a lot of culinary negotiations. The table is where I integrate both sides of my hyphen. The plate is a means of “locating” myself squarely in the history of both Diasporas — African and Jewish, and all the places those Diaspora’s represent from Angola…
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Kosher Chow Comes to the Super Bowl
There’s no need to brown bag it if you are a kosher football fanatic headed to New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII next February. Kosher fare will be served in the stadium at the big game, reports Kosher Today. Game-goers will get to chow down on beef hot dogs, beef sausages with peppers and onions,…
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The Quest for the Kosher Cheeseburger
Keeping kosher my whole life has limited much of my culinary knowledge. I have this feeling sometimes, especially when I am looking up a new recipe or watching a cooking show, that I am missing something, that I have been cheated in some way. I never knew that split pea soup was supposed to have…
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5 Wacky Ways To Eat Your Pastrami
Pastrami is the staple of Jewish deli food: unctuous and fatty, thinly sliced and layered over a good seedy rye with just a dab of spicy mustard and, it makes one of the more perfect, simple sandwiches. But now the workhouse of the delicatessen is migrating into unusual territory. Chefs around the country have begun…
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Staying Healthy During a Hurricane
Sitting on the couch in my Brooklyn apartment, staring at the bright gray sky with trees blowing vehemently in the wind, I feel as if I am waiting for the world to end. My parents called me, as did my aunt, and my grandparents. My cousins sent emails, and my friends sent instant messages, only…
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Bagel Shortage and Hurricane Recipes
As East Coasters prepped for the Frankenstorm, stores sold out of flashlights, bottled water and… bagels? According to the Village Voice, nary a bagel was to be found in Manhattan’s West Village this morning. So what to do if you’re stuck, hunkered down in your home, for the next 24+ hours? Cook a delicious meal…
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Cooking in Season: Pumpkin Macaroons
True, it’s not really the official time of year for macaroons. But as the world struggled to find something that doesn’t work with pumpkin (like Pumpkin Pop-Tarts, [Pumpkin Eggos]( https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=440397522668310&set=a.241228542585210.54394.161641000543965&type=1&theater, and pumpkin bagels), I had to know if the stray bag of coconut sitting in my cabinet would compliment it. So I dug up my…
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Kosher Update: Empire Poultry Fires CEO
Empire Kosher Poultry Inc. fired its chief executive officer allegedly after the aborted acquisition of another kosher poultry firm. Greg Rosenbaum learned Oct. 10 that he was out at Empire, the leading supplier of kosher poultry in the United States, the Washington Jewish Week reported Wednesday. The company, based in Mifflintown, Pa., went from near…
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What If Farming Is Actually A Curse?
The next shmitta (sabbatical) year is two years away. At Hazon we’re gearing up for it already by doing some weekly learning on the topic with Rabbi Ari Hart, and recently, a look at some of our foundation stories in the Torah – Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel in particular – led us to…
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What’s for Dinner? Prepared Kosher Meals at Fairway
Dinnertime may get a lot easier for kosher customers at Manhattan’s Fairway stores. Just last week, the supermarket chain began offering “dinners to go” from Glatt Kosher New York City restaurant Abigael’s on Broadway. The prepared meals — the kind you usually only find in specialty kosher markets and not in mainstream supermarkets — are…
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