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Does Jewish Food Have A Chance In The Ultimate Restaurant Guide?
Picture this. It’s a hot afternoon in the middle of July and you’re in a foreign country. It’s times like this you might whip out your copy of Where Chefs Eat, a tome from Phaidon, now in its third edition of being a revolutionized restaurant guidebook. Its previous editions were bestsellers, with more than 250,000…
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Recipes This Chrysanthemum and Shiso Watermelon Salad Is The Perfect Summer Dish
Watermelon with Chrysanthemum and Shiso Serves 4 4 large wedges seedless watermelon, rind removed and flesh cut into triangles, about 8 cups 8 ounces ricotta salata, cut into matchsticks 1 bunch of chrysanthemum leaves or baby arugula A handful of shiso leaves or baby arugula 1⁄4 cup pumpkin seeds, toasted Kosher salt and freshly ground…
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Rabbis Say Ethiopian Jews Not Jewish Enough To Make Kosher Wine
Barkan, one of Israel’s leading winemakers, recently banned its Ethiopian employees from working in its kosher wine production. After a media uproar in which everyone from Israel’s chief rabbi and political figures like President Reuven Rivlin cried racism, Barkan announced that its Ethiopian staff would be returning to work as usual, almost as if their…
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Why America’s Strange Love For Starbucks Will Be Key To Howard Schultz’s Political Success
When Howard Schultz hinted earlier this month at the possibility that he might run for president, the idea that another billionaire with no government experience would have his eye on the Oval Office was met with a barrage of sarcastic comments on social media. “There are already several dark horse candidates for ’20,” David Axelrod,…
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The Case For Eating All Food At Room Temperature
Long before eateries like Sweetgreen and Just Salad took urban areas by storm, there was Ilene Rosen at City Bakery. For fifteen years, she served as the savory chef of that institution, cultivating a following that mourned her departure to R&D Foods, a specialty grocery store featuring her prepared foods. So can a food cookbook…
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This World-Renowned Chocolatier Is Reinventing Cacao Fruit
Five years after a noncompete agreement forced him out of retail, the co-founder of Israeli chocolate powerhouse Max Brenner has resurfaced with a storefront boutique that’s much more modest than his old business — but even more ambitious. Oded Brenner opened Blue Stripes Cacao Shop in a high-ceilinged, brick-walled space in Manhattan’s East Village last…
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How To Throw A Leonard-Cohen-Style Cocktail Party
Booze and Vinyl, by Andre and Tenaya Darlington, is a sleek volume with suggestions for cocktails and music pairings — including recipes for listening to the iconic Songs Of Leonard Cohen album on vinyl. So here it is, some fresh new cocktail recipes courtesy of the Darlington siblings. Time to set the mood and let…
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How This Cooking Class Might Improve Your Hebrew
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) – In the compact, open kitchen of the apartment here that Dalit Gvirtsman shares with her husband, about a dozen women are jostling for space. One is chopping tomatoes, another is sauteing onions and another is squeezing a few dollops of honey into cooked egg noodles. Just beyond, the dining room table…
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‘By Chloe’ Co-Founder Is Opening A Middle Eastern Restaurant In SoHo
New York’s seemingly endless hunger for Middle Eastern food keeps growing. And the latest contender in the crowded category comes with hipster bona fides. DEZ is the new Soho eatery from Samantha Wasser, a founder of vegan powerhouse By Chloe, and Eden Grinshpan, the Israeli-Canadian chef best known for her Cooking Channel shows Eden Eats…
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Does Keeping Kosher Mean Having Less Sex?
The grass always seems greener on the other side, doesn’t it? Especially for a particular segment of neurotic, anxious Jews with an abundance of hang ups about sex. But as a new Harvard study recently revealed, couples who eat a lot of seafood may have more sex and get pregnant faster than folk who don’t….
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New York Schools Are Finally Starting To Offer Kosher And Halal Meals
As the New York City fiscal budget for 2019 begins to take shape, city officials are taking the opportunity to push new initiatives. With 38% of today’s New York public school students Jewish and Muslim, and growing rapidly, new measures are needed to suit their dietary restrictions. David Weprin, a state assemblyman from Queens, first…
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