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Coconut-Quinoa Breakfast Bowl With Lemon And Blueberries
COCONUT-QUINOA BREAKFAST BOWL WITH LEMON AND BLUEBERRIES prep: 10 minutes cook: 20 minutes yield: 4 servings Ingredients: 1⁄2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, or a mix 1 tablespoon melted coconut oil 3⁄4 teaspoon coarse sea salt (preferably sel gris) 1 cup fresh blueberries or other seasonal fruit 1 cup quinoa (see Note) 11⁄4 cups…
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Introducing The Triple Porker, The World’s Least Kosher Sandwich
If you’re looking to rebel with a little something extra, this might be the most non-kosher sandwich of all time. The Triple Pork Courtesy of Jeff Mauro Makes 4-6 Large Sandwiches Ingredients: 1 2lb Pork Tenderloin, trimmed of silver skin 1 Cup “Zesty” Mustard ½ pound honey maple ham, sliced very thin 12 slices peppered…
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Why Food Critics Are Obsessing Over Israeli Cuisine
In the sun-lit Alenbi restaurant, on Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights, with its white and black urban chic decor — you can easily mistake the setting and think you’re in Tel Aviv, not Brooklyn. Sunday lunch, we are ready for you. ✨ #lunching #decoration #modern #home A post shared by ALENBI (@alenbikitchen) on Mar 18,…
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Where Does Ottolenghi Eat When He’s Off-Duty?
You might pick up some Jewish flavors in (Where Chefs Eat)[http://www.phaidon.com/store/food-cook/where-chefs-eat-9780714875651/] (Phaidon), the insanely ambitious guide that features – deep breath – 1,184 pages with 7,000 recommendations for more than 4,500 restaurants in 70+ countries. The bestseller’s third edition gets released April 30. Among the 650 chefs who revealed their favorite eateries in categories like…
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Here Are Ottolenghi’s Favorite Eateries
You might pick up some Jewish flavors in Where Chefs Eat (Phaidon), the insanely ambitious guide that features – deep breath – 1,184 pages with 7,000 recommendations for more than 4,500 restaurants in 70+ countries. The bestseller’s third edition gets released April 30. Among the 650 chefs who revealed their favorite eateries in categories like…
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Washington, D.C. Is Getting Three New Kosher Restaurants
For years, the nation’s capital had only one full-fledged kosher restaurant. But as of this week, that changed. The clergy at Ohev Shalom-The National Synagogue, a Washington D.C. Modern Orthodox congregation, have given kosher certification to three vegan restaurants in the District (along with two others in the suburbs). Leading the effort is Maharat Ruth…
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The Curse Of The Dairy Kosher Restaurant in Manhattan
Well, another kosher dairy restaurant has shuttered. Basta, the high-end Manhattan eatery, with its selection of Israeli style dairy dishes, was only open for a scant few months before closing its doors again. In reckoning with the departure of Basta, it’s time to ask some questions about how Jews eat – and what that means…
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Julia Turshen Is Making Room At The Table
The question of what it means to be fed is one that has haunted sustainability activists for ages: How much is being spent on feeding people? Who gets to be fed? Who doesn’t? Who’s doing the feeding? Julia Turshen, the bestselling author of Feed the Resistance, one of the best cookbooks of 2017, who lives…
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From Martinis To Soups To Smoothies: Tahini Is Key
Oh, tahini. A scant few years ago, nobody even knew who you were, other than hummus’ uglier cousin. You couldn’t go to parties alone, unless you were with one of your chaperones like hummus, baba ghanoush, or halva. You were nothing more than a a Middle Eastern paste of sauce made from ground sesame seeds….
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Grilled Cheese Sandwiches For Jaded Adults
A painless but devastating dish, composed of nothing but copious amounts of cheese and bread (although it can be classed up with things like goose eggs and sexed up with things like pesto), grilled cheese sandwiches are one of the simplest pleasures a person can enjoy on this tilting orb of existence. In Tel Aviv,…
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Israeli Restaurant ‘Balaboosta’ Closing Its Doors
Long before shakshuka and pomegranate molasses dotted the menus at New York’s hottest restaurants there was Balaboosta, an Israeli restaurant that strikes that rare note of feeling special without any pretense. At the end of next month, the cozy space on Mulberry Street will close its doors, The New York Times reported today. In 2010,…
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