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For This Year’s Forward Food Awards 2018, We Want Your Feedback
For the 2018 Forward Food Awards, we want to get some feedback from our readers on who they think should be nominated — and why. We want your best, most out of the box ideas. Send us your reliable old favorites along with your latest and trendiest picks. We want to hear about what you…
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Orthodox Union No Longer Certifying This Controversially Slaughtered Beef
The Orthodox Union has told its approved beef purveyors in South America to stop using a controversial slaughter method. The O.U., which is the largest kosher certifying agency in the United States, sent a letter to its meat purveyors in June notifying them that it would no longer accept meat slaughtered using the “shackle and…
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Recipes Why Sour Cream Coffee Cake Is Quintessentially Jewish
Below is an excerpt from the Zingerman’s Bakehouse cookbook. Zingerman’s is a special bakery dedicated to fine desserts that’s been serving the community of Ann Arbor since 1982. Sour Cream Coffee Cake (or Lemon Poppy Seed) Makes one 9-inch (23cm) bundt cake This is our most popular coffee cake and possibly our most popular sweet…
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An Iconic Jewish Bakehouse Reveals Its Tightly Kept Secrets
What can we say? It’s Zingerman’s! If you’ve ever been to Ann Arbor, Michigan, you know a Zingerman’s Bakehouse cookbook essentially sells itself. Ann Arbor is a university town, where the University of Michigan and football reign supreme. The cookbook is a reflection of cooking for an ever-changing flow and ebb of visitors, students and…
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Kosher Restaurant Puts On Receipt: ‘Immigrants Cooked Your Food And Served You Today’
Katsuji Tanabe, the restaurateur, executive chef, and owner of Mexikosher in Manhattan and Flushing, Queens, is now serving up immigrant support at his restaurants. The “Top Chef” alum and Japanese-Mexican immigrant is printing receipts at his establishments that say, “Immigrants cooked your food and served you today #ITookaRisk.” Tanabe, who also owns three other non-kosher…
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Toronto’s First Kosher Food Bank Is Closing
It feeds 150 hungry families a week. On Tuesdays, it has about 25 to 30 loyal volunteers prepping meals to hand out about 400 bags of food. And it only costs about $800 a week to run, as Alan Marks, one of Pride of Israel Synagogue’s food banks founders, told CJNews.com. Donations have shrunk and…
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Jonathan Gold Made Food Writing Into An Art — Like No One Before
Though I never met Jonathan Gold, he and I shared a few experiences. In 2012, we both became restaurant critics at major metropolitan daily newspapers — he at the Los Angeles Times, myself at the NY Daily News. Except he, of course, arrived at his job with a Pulitzer Prize – the first for a…
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Midtown NYC Gets Yet Another High-End Kosher Restaurant
After a tough few years, is high-end kosher hot again? Last week, we reported on the opening of London’s Tish, with its big-name chef and grand-sounding room. Now, it’s New York’s turn. Former Gramercy Tavern chef Joshua Kessler has opened Barnea Bistro, an ambitious Midtown modern-kosher spot whose goal is no less than to offer…
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Trump-Supporting Kosher Restaurant Owner Accused Of ‘Gentrifying’ LA
Kosher restaurant Asher Caffe and Lounge is being accused of neighborhood gentrification by protesters in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Boyle Heights has been a hotspot for gentrification protests lately, but the newest target of activist ire isn’t your usual overpriced, artisanal coffee shop. In fact, Asher Caffe is kosher. But gentrification wasn’t the only reason…
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The Secret Ingredients For The Perfect Cholent: From Coke To Falafel Balls
Growing up, one of the most egregious kitchen crimes my mother ever committed was cooking hot dogs and chopping them up into our Shabbat cholent. Upon finding a hotdog in our cholent, we would collectively groan and push our bowls away. Cholent had a very small window of being good. It isn’t photogenic, it’s easily…
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Who’s Eating Jewish Food In New York — Right Now?
New York is the city that never sleeps. It’s a place where bagels and babka can flourish, where people can go for a whitefish salad at any time of day or night. But for an enterprising food editor like me, it’s sometimes hard to keep my eye of Sauron on all the Jewish food happenings…
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