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PepsiCo Is Buying Sodastream For $3.2 Billion
For a premium of $144 a share, snack and drink conglomerate Pepsico has agreed to purchase Sodastream, the controversial make-your-own soda company from Israel. “PepsiCo is finding new ways to reach consumers beyond the bottle,” said PepsiCo President Ramon Laguarta. Why now? According to Nielson’s data, the grocery store is on the decline, with 70%…
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The Top 11 Jew-ish Cookbooks Coming Out This Fall
1.Now & Again by Julia Turshen– Out September 4, Chronicle Books This cookbook is an ode to leftovers, created by a woman who understands that social change begins at the table. What’s being served? Who gets to sit at these tables? Turshen answers these questions in her subtly pro-sustainability cookbook that tells you not only…
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Here Are Your Nominees For Best Jew-ish Chef Of 2018!
It’s that time of year again — it’s time for the Forward Food Awards, where we celebrate food as an essential part of Jewish life and ask you, our readers, to pick their favorite places to fress. The nominees were chosen by Forward staff, but the choice of winners is entirely up to our readers….
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Meet The Woman Turning Bagels Into A Gourmet Food
Black Seed Bagels’ Executive Chef Dianna Daoheung eats at least two bagels a day, every day. Now that Black Seed Bagels is opening up its fourth storefront, Daoheung doesn’t have time to hand-make every single bagel at the self-described “modern day bagel shop steeped in old world traditions.” But she still makes sure to try…
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Where To Find Kosher Haggis — Yes, It Exists.
Haggis is the national delicacy of Scotland and it’s not exactly known for its Jewish appeal. It’s a type of pudding made up of the liver, heart and lungs of a sheep, mixed with beef and oatmeal, seasoned with onion, cayenne pepper and other spices, then packed into a sheep’s stomach to be boiled. On…
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‘Black Seed’ Opens In The Ace Hotel — With Lines Around The Block
If you’d found yourself above 8th Street in Manhattan, and craved one of Black Seed’s near-perfect bagels, you were out of luck – until this week. Noah Bernamoff’s white-hot artisan-bagel upstart has opened a gleaming new store inside the hip Ace Hotel at 29th and Broadway. It’s the bagelry’s fourth location. It’s alsoa the first…
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Has The Jewish-Created American Hot Dog Finally Assimilated?
The story of the New York hot dog is the story of the Jews, and the story of the American hot dog fits squarely in the purview of one Nathan Handwerker. What’s so Jewish about all-beef hot dogs? Historians follow the hot dog trail all the way back to Roman emperor Nero’s cook Gaius, who…
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Vegan Shwarma Is Taking Tel Aviv By Storm
What is the shwarma experience? It’s an indulgent pita sandwich dripping with fresh salads, tahini sauce dribbling down the sides, vegetables and amba. A couple of crispy fries topping the entire concoction never hurts. Oh, and it’s filled with shawarma. At new restaurant Sultana, that shawarma is completely vegan, harming zero animals in its making….
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How Crisco Overtook Schmaltz In American Jewish Cooking
“Crisco Recipes For The Jewish Housewife” was a slim, 77-paged piece of marketing material slash cookbook, manufactured by Proctor and Gamble and copyrighted in 1933. Crisco, the first brand of shortening to be made entirely of vegetable oil, happened to be neither dairy nor meat, making it the perfect product to hawk to Yiddish speaking…
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Meet The Canadian Woman Who’s Breaking The Glass Bong Ceiling
Legal pot in Canada has sparked a massive, sometimes wild growth industry. But in one aspect, the new boss is the same as the old boss, to paraphrase The Who: Almost all public cannabis companies are run by men. Alison Gordon is the only exception. The CEO of 48North Cannabis Corp, Canada’s first licensed producer…
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This Israeli Startup Promises To Keep Pizza Fresh For 8 Weeks
Vacuum packing is ideal for some food products but other items are too delicate to survive the process without being squashed, says Michel Habib, founder and chairman of Israel-based Timeless Foods Technologies Ltd. Founded in 2012 and based in Ramat Gan, a town in the Tel Aviv area, Timeless Foods develops a firm disposable plastic…
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