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Roadside Gourmet: Moses Falafel
Austin, Texas What to Order: Falafel with Fixings, Baklava Former Israeli Air Force technician Shmuel Haviv keeps the menu at Moses Falafel simple: He serves soft and chewy pita filled with crispy falafel, drizzled with hot sauce and topped with hummus, cucumber salad and pickles. Haviv parks his falafel trailer on the Jewish Community Center’s…
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Mixing Bowl: ‘Perfect’ Bagel; Kosher Supper Club
What’s it like to run an underground kosher supper club and speakeasy? Itta Werdiger Roth, founder of The Hester, shares her story [Jewess With Attitude] A look into one of Israel’s largest challah bakeries. [The Kitchn] …and Israel’s largest hummus factory. [Serious Eats] Twenty-seven-year-old former genetics student Dan Graf is using science to build the…
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No Meat — The 9 Days
Editor’s Note: The Beet-Eating Heeb is the nom de plume of Jeffrey Cohan, a former journalist in Forest Hills, PA. He also blogs about Judaism and veganism on his own Web site Observant Jews refrain from eating meat for the first nine days of the Hebrew month of Av as part of the mourning rituals…
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Roadside Gourmet: Rolling Reuben’s
In honor of a century of mobile Jewish-American fare, we selected the stand-out Jewish food trucks from all over the states (and Canada, too). Read the article here and check back for more delicious trucks. Atlanta, Ga. What to Order: The New Yorker The Deep South isn’t exactly swimming in corned beef, so when Rolling…
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Roadside Gourmet: Caplansky’s Deli Truck
In honor of a century of mobile Jewish-American fare, we selected the stand-out Jewish food trucks from all over the states (and Canada, too). Read the article here and check back Sunday, Monday and Tuesday for more delicious trucks. Caplansky’s Deli Truck Toronto What to Order: Smoked Meat Sandwich with a pickle Thunderin’ Thelma is…
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Roadside Gourmet: New York on Rye
In honor of a century of mobile Jewish-American fare, we selected the stand-out Jewish food trucks from all over the states (and Canada, too). Read the article here and check back Sunday, Monday and Tuesday for more delicious trucks. San Diego, Calif. What to Order: Corned Beef Hash Burrito, Classic Knish “Have a nosh day”…
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From Kosher Caterer to Vegan Sushi Chef
After his limelight moment alongside Gordon Ramsay as a season-10 Hell’s Kitchen finalist, and the nonstop demands of his family’s successful kosher-catering company, Guy Vaknin needed a change. Vegetarian sushi was one of his biggest successes in “modernizing” his family’s business, Esprit Events. So after ditching his executive-chef post and doing some market research with…
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Shabbat Meals: Irma Rae’s Snappy Cheese Bits
On the day after Thanksgiving, 1979, Irma Rae Erdreich was driving home to Birmingham, AL, from her sister’s home in Albany, GA, when she fell asleep behind the wheel of her car and drifted into the path of an oncoming truck. The news, when it reached my mother, became one of my earliest memories. I…
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Video: Frying Falafel, Family Style
Growing up in Israel during the 1980’s, falafel was king. Twice a week I traveled from my Kibbutz to the city of Petah Tikva, for an intense ballet class. To the naked eye I seemed like any other disciplined ballerina, but actually my mind was filled with sinful thoughts of the tahini dripping falafel sandwich…
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A Beginner Foodie’s Guide to DC
While traveling in Washington DC with my boyfriend Dov on a hot summer weekend, I was refreshed by the large variety of seemingly-healthy restaurants around. Among them were a wide range of well-known hot spots like Whole Foods, as well as some lesser known options like the produce stands at Eastern Market. But, finding a…
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Your Hummus Now Comes in a Cone
Israelis love their hummus. It is a nation of Zohans who have no qualms eating it three times a day and any time in between. But when I told my Israeli friends I wanted to try hummus ice cream they looked perplexed. “Hummus ice cream? Who would want to eat that?” or “That sounds disgusting….
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