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Recipe: Pomegroni, A Middle Eastern Twist On Campari
As I juiced my millionth pomegranate of the winter using the hand-cranked press that sits on our counter, it occurred to me: Who needs Campari when you’ve got fresh pomegranate juice? The fruit’s tannic, sweet-bitter taste stands in perfectly for the classic Italian aperitif, especially with a shake or two of bitters to steer the…
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NYC’s Coolest Sandwich Spot Is A Tiny Storefront Run By An Israeli Couple
View this post on Instagram From our neighbor @vidalbenbasat. Thank you! A post shared by Foxface (@foxface_nyc) on Dec 29, 2018 at 6:03pm PST The secret’s out: Manhattan’s coolest sandwich spot is a tiny East Village storefront run by a young Israeli couple who lives upstairs. And it’s got a very Jewish backstory. Foxface scored…
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Leonard Cohen Invented His Own Cocktail. The Jewish Museum Gave It A Happy Hour.
The lobby of the Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan hummed with energy and clinking ice cubes. Museum-goers formed huddles in the entry of the converted mansion — some visitors sat at tables, while others scoured books that are on sale in the museum’s store. Everyone was holding a blush-colored cocktail invented…
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This Miami-Based Israeli Chef Is Here To Teach You How To Properly Use Spices
Amid this year’s bumper crop of Israeli cookbooks, Miami-based Yaniv Cohen has found a new angle. The Israeli-born chef, who bills himself as The Spice Detective, just published My Spiced Kitchen, his first collection of recipes; every dish comes with a breezy treatise on the spice it features. Cohen, who runs Miami’s Jaffa by the…
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Finally, Manhattan Gets Kosher Al Fresco Dining
I’ve been living in New York City for ten years now, and on countless occasions, I’ve walked by chic little restaurants with diners seated outside, and wondered out loud — Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a kosher Manhattan restaurant with outdoor seating? With our large population, our resources, and our ingenuity, why can’t we…
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Brooklyn’s ‘Rainbow Bagel’ Closes Because Of Tax Evasion
Whether or not rainbow bagels should exist in the first place is a question we’ll save for another time. In the meantime, the Brooklyn birthplace of the infamous Rainbow Bagel – that’s a trademarked term, thank you – was forced to close this week after New York State’s Department of Taxation and Finance accused its…
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Diller’s Kosher Fried Pickles Is Now Open On The Lower East Side
What kind of extravagant, elaborate cuisine takes more than two years to reach the dining public? How about fried pickles? That’s the specialty at Diller, a kosher joint on Manhattan’s Lower East Side that has finally opened many, many months after its owners announced their plans. View this post on Instagram TOMORROW!! Grand opening! See…
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Pastrami Queen In Times Square Is Closing
When kosher deli Pastrami Queen expanded to Times Square’s Pearl Hotel in March, we marveled that Jewish delis had become hot in hospitality — think Mile End Deli at Nashville’s Fairlane and Zobler’s inside London’s Ned hotel. Maybe we spoke too soon. Just three months after a splashy opening, Midtown’s Pastrami Queen has gone to…
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Modernist Israeli Restaurant ‘Shook’ Opens In Toronto
With the recent opening of Shook in the city’s Entertainment District, Toronto’s gaining traction as a hub of next-generation, Israeli-inspired cuisine. The airy, sprawling Shook joins over-the-top Semitic palace Fat Pasha and industrial-chic Parallel as Hebrew-accented hotspots on the city’s polyglot dining scene. Toronto’s also where Cafe Landwer, the Israeli-owned “Middle Easter diner,” opened its…
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Chef Michael Solomonov Opening 3 New Israeli Restaurants In Philadelphia
As if we needed more reasons to visit – and fress – the dynamic duo of Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook will open three new restaurants in Philadelphia this summer and fall. This month, James Beard Award-winning chef Solomonov and his business partner will launch K’Far, an Israeli bakery and all-day café “inspired by the…
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This Holocaust Survivor’s Shabbat Dinner Cooking Videos Are Becoming An Instagram Sensation
Instagram’s most unlikely new star isn’t a twerking pop star or talking cat. She’s a 79-year-old Holocaust survivor in Great Neck, NY, whose Shabbat-dinner cooking videos have become a viral sensation with a celebrity following. Miriam Karimzadeh has had some help, as she’d be the first to admit. Her son, Marc Karimzadeh, is the dapper,…
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