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A Banquet To End Hunger
Imagine sitting down to an intimate community dinner with a smattering of neighbors and fellow city dwellers. The host directs you to a buffet table of simple spaghetti and offers you a can of soda. Perhaps you think nothing of the no-frills meal you’re about to enjoy, until you notice that your neighbor Jill, who…
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Harvard’s Vegetarian Cholent
I spent most of freshman year at Harvard threatening to transfer. I quickly realized college wasn’t going to be a delightful blur of Solo cups, but rather, a lot of solitary lunches. I was tired of the awkward icebreakers, and all I desired was the comfort and familiarity I had enjoyed at home. Luckily, I…
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Wall Street’s Kosher Cafe May Be Forced To Close
The owner of a kosher restaurant in Manhattan’s Financial District is blaming Occupy Wall Street for his decision to fire almost a quarter of his staff. “This movement is not serious,” Milk Street Cafe owner Marc Epstein tells DNAinfo.com. “If it was, they would not want small businesses going out of business.” The restaurateur made…
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NY’s Oldest Bialy Shop Is Saved by Unlikely Owners
The oldest bialys store in the country is still on a roll. The sweet smell of bread will continue to waft down Coney Island Avenue, as a landmark kosher bakery in Brooklyn gets a whole new lease on life. Coney Island Bialys and Bagels, teetered and fell in September, after Steve Ross, whose grandfather began…
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Knishery NYC: A Modern Twist on the Knish
The “Knishening,” as chef and founder Noah Wildman coined it, was set to take place at this past Saturday’s Hester Street Fair, where his company, Knishery NYC, would make its debut. Toiling in his home kitchen, Wildman had produced 500 knishes in flavors ranging from the classic potato to a more modern and gourmet mushroom…
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Where Are the Farmers in the Jewish Community?
This afternoon I picked up a radish and decided to taste it. When I rubbed it on my pants to take the soil off the spot I planned on biting, it came out this stunning crimson color that stopped me in my tracks. I took a second to imagine everything in my frame of vision…
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Israel’s Autumn Harvest Foods
With the end of the High Holidays, autumn is in full swing here in Israel. Everyone feels it — from produce lovers, like myself, bidding goodbye to the delectable sweetness of the summer’s watermelons and mangoes, to the country’s farmers harvesting this season’s new delights and preparing for the coming rains. You don’t need to…
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Reality TV’s Newest Star? The Carnegie Deli
Running a landmark Jewish deli isn’t easy, especially when you hear a rumor that Jack Nicholson might show up. That’s the premise behind “Family Pickle,” a new reality TV show that launched this week on the RLTV cable channel. Filmed at the Carnegie Deli in midtown Manhattan, the series follows the trials and tribulations of…
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Mixing Bowl: Industrial Food Face-Off; Best Latkes and Bialys
Matt Rees takes a very close look at Ariel Sharon’s eating habits and what they meant. [Salon] Where can you get great shakshuka in New York City? Lauren Shockey dishes on the places. Village Voice Josh Ozersky and Mark Bittman duke it out on the issue of industrial food. [Time] The end is near for…
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Kutsher’s Tribeca Updates Jewish Classics
Come November 15, New Yorkers need not pile into the upstate-circa-1950s-bound DeLorean to experience the hospitality and family atmosphere of Kutsher’s Hotel & Country Club — a classic of the Borscht Belt. With the opening date of Kutsher’s Tribeca fast approaching, the buzz is mounting, and it’s grabbing the attention of city dwellers that hold…
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Can Food Justice Be as Simple as a Label?
During the month of High Holidays, I rediscovered my Jewish conscience. Not in a big, showy way, but in an ”oh this is what this is all about moment.” I was raised on a sort of ‘hallmark Judaism’, which tamed the most radical statements of equality and justice in our tradition. In my suburban synagogue,…
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