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How One Jewish Woman Is Changing The World — With One Jar Of Trash
Amanda Lindner has a jar of trash. It’s not a big jar and it’s not a big amount of trash. In fact, in this five-inch jar is all the trash she’s created in the past five months. When Lindner moved into her first solo apartment in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, she committed to a zero-waste…
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Making Challah, The Jewish Miracle Bread, With A Syrian Twist
Jack Hazan’s Grandma Peggy called challah “the miracle bread.” She taught him to make it in her kitchen when he was a child — she lived only a few blocks away from his yeshiva, in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. She told him that in Syria, where she and her late husband Albert were from,…
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The First Jewish Deli In Massachusetts Might Also Be The Last
For years, there was only one Jewish deli in Worcester, Massachusetts. But it was more than a deli. It was a historical landmark, it was a piece of living history and it was a neighborhood meeting spot. A combination of Worcester regulars and curious visitors would drop by to drink a Dr. Brown’s, taste the…
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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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