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After A Five Year Ban, Oded Brenner Is Back To Making Chocolate
There is no man named Max Brenner behind the international chain “Max Brenner”, but there is a Max Fichtman and an Oded Brenner, business partners who lent their names to the title when their first shop opened in Tel Aviv in 1995. After an acrimonious split with Fichtman — Brenner, who served as the face…
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A Luxury Seafood Chef Turns Kosher – In The Heart Of Tel Aviv
I have never kept kosher and, to be honest, have no intention of ever doing so. This is not a judgment on anyone’s way of life or a confession of my own shortcomings when it comes to reverence for Scripture — it just means I’m the perfect person to review NOMI, a newly opened kosher…
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Mike Solomonov’s New Venture Shows Israeli Food Is More Than Falafel And Hummus
At K’Far, Mike Solomonov’s newest Philadelphia-based restaurant venture, 2018 James Beard Award winner Camille Cogswell will be making feta-stuffed burekas and other signature Israeli pastries for this all-day restaurant. “We’re going to be showing another facet of Israeli cuisine,” Solomonov told Eater Philadelphia. Instead of the same tired spread of hummus, falafel and schwarma, K’Far,…
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Making The Case For Immigration — For Purely Culinary Reasons
Thanks to the creativity of starving peasants bent on pushing the limits of human gastronomy, every culture has a variation on fried chicken, from Jewish-German schnitzel to Japanese chicken karage to Southern fried chicken specials. If you’ve ever been intrigued by how food can have so many cross-cultural similarities, “You and I Eat The Same,”…
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Recipes What To Eat When You’re Recovering From Cancer
In 2018, an estimated 1,735,350 people were diagnosed with cancer, making it one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Chances are someone you know or will know in your lifetime will have cancer. Sarah Grossman and Tamara Green, both experts in cancer-care cooking, are familiar with these statistics. The two holistic nutritionists embarked on…
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Kosher Inmates Are Only Getting Sardines In This Brooklyn Jail
As temperatures begin to drop dangerously low, inmates at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center have been going days without heat, warm water, or hot food. One kosher-observing inmate said he had only been given canned sardines to eat. In a story broken by The New York Times, federal defenders said their phones were ringing off the…
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Steven Spielberg’s Family Kosher Restaurant ‘The Milky Way’ Is Reopening
When beloved Spielberg family restaurant The Milky Way went dark, in a closure that some thought was final, it was because of the death of restaurateur Leah Spielberg Adler, the five-foot-tall concert pianist, artist, and mother of four who died at 97, after four decades of being at The Milky Way’s helm. But now the…
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Questions Not To Ask Your Starbucks Barista About Howard Schulz
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced his presidential aspirations and began making the media rounds, the Internet reacted none-too-positively. The corporate hive at Starbucks headquarters was then forced to update its employee handbook, so all the hapless venti-stirring baristas would know how to respond to those pesky political questions. As the Huffington Post discovered,…
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Is The Hummus Bubble About To Burst?
New York has long been fascinated with the mashed chickpea dip, reminiscent of the Middle Eastern table, with all the disagreements about who gets to sit at it. But is this fascination dissipating? Recent hummus-related closures include Dizengoff, celebrity chef Michael Solomonov’s short-lived Chelsea Market venture, Gourmet Food Solutions, the maker of Trader Joe’s and…
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The Israeli Celebrity Chef Who Served Pig On Yom Kippur Is Coming To NYC
There was the suckling pig recipe on Yom Kippur. There was the successful push to overturn a ban on the sale of bread during Passover. And there was the disappearing act after he sold his successful bakery chain. Now, Israeli superstar chef Erez Komarovsky is taking his bad-boy act on the road. As the Forward…
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Recipes Polar Vortex Beef Borscht
Photographs by Liza Schoenfein Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: about 3 hours Serves: 8 2½ pounds beef chuck cut into 2-3 inch pieces 1 medium onion, chopped 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced 32 ounces lower sodium beef broth ½ cup tomato paste ½ cup apple cider vinegar ¼ cup honey 4 dill fronds (about…
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