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Steve Mnuchin Gives Kushner $21 Bottle of Non-Kosher Wine
He might be a millionaire 300 times over, but he certainly doesn’t drink like one. The Secretary of Treasury headed over to Jared Kushner’s house for a weekend hang, the Daily Mail reports, and brought along a 2015 Arbalest Red Bordeaux Blend. This [non-kosher] wine is a red blend (81% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Sauvignon and…
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Einstein Brothers To Start Offering Mac & Cheese Bagel
If you’re in the mood to live fast and die young, and are craving an absolute carb-palooza, and have the sturdy heart of a Russian-Jewish peasant which laughs in the face of threat, you might want to try Einstein Brothers’ new Mac & Cheese bagels. It’s comfort food on comfort food: The bagel chain Einstein…
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Black And White Cookie Doughnuts Are The Newest Food Abomination
The wheel turns and nothing is new, the saying goes. Except some things are. When our ancestors moved here from the shtetls of Europe, they were not expecting to find their culinary traditions so universally beloved, to the extent that everyone felt the colonialist urge to sink their teeth into them. But sink their teeth…
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Is The Next TV Food Celebrity A Chabad Rabbi?
Much has been made of just how food-centric Judaism is. From latkes on Chanuka to the requisite cheesecake on Shavuot, Judaism can and will make you fat. That’s why ‘how to cook Jewish food’ is such a hot button topic, why the Jewish cookbook market is so saturated (thank God or I’d be out of…
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Baklava and Bourekas Abound At Greek Jewish Festival
In front of 280 Broome St, the Greek Jewish Festival attempted to preserve a forgotten culture. The sounds of a lute and the dulcet tones of Daphna Mor blasted through the streets. Some space was partitioned off for particularly enthusiastic participants to jump in and dance. The festival was in full swing. From a map…
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Nobu Sets Its Sights On Israel
Nobu Hospitality has set its sights on Israel. The juggernaut “global lifestyle brand” that counts Robert De Niro as a partner will open its 17th property next year in Tel Aviv. DeNiro’s cohorts in the hotel venture include Nobu Matsuhisa – whose extravagant sushi palaces birthed the brand – and Israeli businessman Meir Teper. The…
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Could Cloned Pork Be Kosher?
Along with the fact that Roger Horowitz’s Kosher USA (Columbia University Press) is compulsively readable, the book offers a meticulously researched survey of America’s kosher food industry. Part detective story, part memoir, and part academic treatise, Kosher USA brings a historian’s eye to a defining part of American Jewish life — and to a market…
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Roseanne Barr Wants To Cook For Natalie Portman — And Set Her Straight On Israel
Roseanne Barr, the controversial comedy actress currently starring in the Trump-supporting revival of ‘Roseanne’, appeared at the Jerusalem Post Conference on Sunday in New York. According to the Jerusalem Post, Barr mentioned that if she got a chance to sit down with Natalie Portman, who recently snubbed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in declining the Genesis…
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Ivanka And Jared Eat At (Non-Kosher) Israeli Restaurant
Israeli food is the trend of 2018, it seems. (Just as it was in 2017, the crotchety old grump in me whispers.) Our cultural ken for hummus and sabich and tiny plates of salat only seems to be getting stronger. It seems even Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are not immmune. The Washington Post got…
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The Food Network Gets A Taste Of Russ & Daughters
“One of the things that was most important to us was a thing called haimishness…so like just tradition, non-pretense, simplicity,” Josh Russ Tupper, co-owner of Russ & Daughters, told an affable Alex Guarnaschelli (a familiar face to Chopped and Iron Chef fans) on ‘Fix Me A Plate,’ a new Food Network show dedicating to showing…
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Insomnia Cookies Are Now Kosher — At One Store
A mainstay of the collegiate world, Insomnia Cookies is a chain of United States bakeries that specializes in delivering warm cookies until 3 am. The chain is the brainchild of a Seth Berkowitz, who was a University of Pennsylvania student at the time, who began baking and delivering cookies to students on campus late at…
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