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Pork Company Does Rosh Hashanah
It’s not just Jews who will avoid discussing business next month on Rosh Hashanah – this year, the country’s biggest pork producer will be doing the same. Smithfield Foods Inc., the Virginia-based makers of more than 50 pork and turkey products, announced last week that it has rescheduled its quarterly conference call partly because of…
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Jewish Cookbook Ranks #3 in Top 50 List
Trying to decide the world’s best cookbooks is a futile endeavor. As food critics Jay Rayner, Bill Buford, Rachel Cooke and Allan Jenkins write in this weekend’s Observer Food Monthly “After all, one person’s sauce-stained personal favourite is another’s shelf-filling waste of space.” But the team of writers, along with several other noted foodies, made…
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Gwyneth Dishes on Her New Cookbook
Gwyneth Paltrow, the svelte Oscar-winning actress who is famous for her kale-detox regimens, has written a cookbook (that’s part Jewish, nonetheless). While this sounds like the last thing I would add to my kitchen bookshelf, famed food critic Jeffrey Steingarten assures readers of this month’s Vogue cover story that “Her knife skills put mine to…
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Leak-Free Tomatoes On Way To Israel
Sliced tomatoes get thrown onto sandwiches, burgers and salads, but they have a damp little secret: They leak. The goop that drips out of tomatoes makes bread soggy and takes the crisp right out of lettuce, but — starting next month — Israelis won’t have to put up with it anymore. So-called “intense tomatoes,” which…
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Cheez Doodle Inventor Dies
It’s a rare link that ties together Jews and one of America’s most iconic snack foods. But the recent death of Morrie Yohai, the inventor of the Cheez Doodle, has brought one of those few connections to light. Yohai, who died last week at the age of 90, according to the New York Times invented…
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Fat of the Land
David Freedenberg told us how he once applied for a job with the New York Police Department’s counter-terrorism unit. He didn’t get the spot, which he says is just as well. “If I got that job, I would go to sleep at night thinking about Times Square blowing up,” he remarked. “Now I think about…
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News Yid.Dish: Homemade Challah for the Working Woman
I recently headed back to the office after being at home for nearly 18 months. During that year and a half, I renewed my relationships with my children, husband, self, and…my kitchen. I have always been one to cook and entertain, but being at home upped the ante. I turned play dates into dinner dates….
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Larry King Leaves CNN for Bagels Biz
You can take the boy out of Brooklyn, but apparently you can’t take Brooklyn out of Larry King. The Brooklyn-native and long-time newsman will step down from his helm at CNN later this year and step into a new role as a financial partner of The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Company, according to the news…
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Oy Vey: A D.C. Restaurant Serves Up Jewish-Irish Fusion
“Others have a nationality,” the writer Brendan Behan famously noted. “The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.” We also share a love of corned beef and raucous fiddle music — think folk and klezmer. Still, an Irish-Jewish fusion restaurant seems like a stretch. Enter the Star and Shamrock, a “modern-day neighborhood melting pot” on…
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Video: Making Corn Meal and Popcorn
The Forverts cooking show, “Eat in Good Health,” is out with a new episode. Here, Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz show us two recipes — and a chemical experiment sure to amaze (and amaize) — all using corn.
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Jewish-Style Deli Not So Jewish
David’s Brisket House in Brooklyn sounds like your archetypal New York Jewish deli. Its website features a nearly pornographic shot of luscious pastrami on rye with sliced pickles. It’s got a Crown Heights address for serious street cred. And it even closes Friday for religious observances. Except the observances are Muslim prayers. And the owners…
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