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L.A.’s Kosher Supa Offers CBD-Enhanced Coffee
Step into the aggressively hip Los Angeles Supa Coffee and there will probably be hip hop playing, hot butter coffee cooling, and food-coloring-free Instagram-friendly layered drinks. Oh, and you can add cannabidiol, or CBD, to whatever you want. Legal in California (and now in Canada), this anxiety-relieving compound commonly found in marijuana is currently being…
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Meet Shark Tank’s First Kosher Food Winner
Well, that should buy a lot of sushi. Guy Vaknin, the vegan-cuisine innovator who took his Beyond Sushi concept to ABC-TV’s Shark Tank Sunday night, has scored a $1.5 million investment from “shark” Lori Greiner and “guest shark” Matt Higgins, Eater reports. Vaknin’s victory makes Beyond Sushi the first vegan “Shark Tank” winner – as…
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For Jewish Environmentalists, The Answer To Sustainability Lies In…Goat Meat
In the wake of a terrifying UN climate report, which announced that mankind has twelve years to wean itself off its fossil fuel guzzling, steak swilling, energy-overusing ways, people are looking about for any way to save our thoroughly rattled planet. One solution? Goat meat. While attaining kosher goat meat might prove to be a…
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Miznon Chef Eyal Shani Tapped To Design Menu For Chelsea Music Hall
When Miznon opened at New York’s Chelsea Market last year – to deafening hype – the Forward walked away less than impressed by Chef Eyal Shani’s takes on Israeli street food. Apparently, the masses disagreed; not only has Miznon become a giant hit, but Chelsea Market’s owners have now tapped Shani to create a new…
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Meet Chef Rossi – One Of The First Chefs To Cater Same-Sex Weddings
Lots of people have just one name. Madonna. Cher. Rossi. Rossi wears many hats, from lesbian to chef to Jewess to anti-microwave activist. Chef Rossi’s story, which is currently being turned into a play based on her 2015 memoir, both called The Raging Skillet, is one that begins with a rebellion against Orthodox parents and…
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‘Eatwith’: The Airbnb For Dining While Traveling
When people travel, they often do it in a bubble of airport-hotel-well reviewed restaurant-hotel-airport. Travelers visit foreign countries without talking or eating with any of the locals there. One app, Eatwith, is looking to change that. Offering 5,000 in-home culinary experiences in 130 countries all over the world, with some 20,000 hosts and 150,000 guests,…
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The Secrets of Reserve Cut’s Albert Allaham
Albert Allaham spends some days in a well-tailored suit and some days getting his hands bloody, slaughtering the animals that will become a dinner at his luxe kosher restaurant Reserve Cut. And he’s not the first of the Allahams to do this — he’s from a long line of Syrian butchers going back 200 years,…
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Kosher Vegan ‘Beyond Sushi’ Heads To Shark Tank
He’s going from Hell’s Kitchen to the Shark Tank. Guy Vaknin, whose kosher-vegan Beyond Sushi chainlet has become a Big Apple phenomenon, will make his debut on ABC-TV’s Shark Tank this Sunday. The Israeli-born Vaknin, who made it to the Hell’s Kitchen finals in 2012, will face the “Sharks” — a panel of tough tycoons…
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Attention, New Yorkers: Fairway Is Now Carrying These 15 Israeli Products
On a muggy October morning, I trekked over to the Fairway Market in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for a breakfast event with representatives of 15 Israeli companies who offered samples and information about their products. The promotion, called “Taste Israel: A World of Flavors,” was presented in the Fairway café overlooking the waterfront. The products will…
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Here Are The Most Surprising Ingredients To Take Your Chicken Soup To The Next Level
Continuing in the tradition of pulling the curtain off the weird, delicious, and unexpected secret ingredients in Jewish foods — today we have chicken soup, that eternal Jewish comfort food. In fact, soup is one of the most forgiving recipes you can ever make in a kitchen. It absorbs the mistakes you make, it doesn’t…
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One Jew’s Very Unkosher Business: Stone Crabs Delivered To Your Door
When it comes to Jews and seafood, the relationship is that of a belligerent, occasionally rebellious child determined to indulge in the forbidden tastes of the world. But not for Shelly Abramowitz, the big-time restauranteur responsible for 80s hotspots like Castanel’s and Cafe Society. As stone crab season draws near, Abramowitz’s business kicks into high…
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