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Food Sizing Up Sadelle’s With the Great Arthur Schwartz
Brunching with legendary Jewish-food authority Arthur Schwartz at New York’s hot new artisanal appetizing restaurant. I first met Arthur Schwartz in late 2006. I was 24, still fairly new to Brooklyn, and just beginning to dip a spoon into the field of food writing. Arthur was a lifelong New Yorker and a pioneer food writer…
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Food Daniel Thompson, Paved Way to Mass Production of Bagels, Dies at 94
You can either thank or blame Daniel Thompson for creating the bagel machine. Thompson, who died this week at age 94, helped take the bagel mainstream with a contraption that could manufacture hundreds of bagels an hour. British-born, Thompson was himself the son of a Jewish baker. But in 1963, his invention fell into the…
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Food Have I Got a Poppy Seed Bagel for You, Barack!
Turns out there’s hope for the president’s bagel predicament. When Forward Editor-in-Chief Jane Eisner what type of bagel he liked best, he waxed nostalgic over the poppy-with-a-schmear he used to pick up at the original H&H Bagels on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He expressed shock that the iconic establishment had bitten the dust — it…
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Food Barack Obama and the Ultimate Jewish Schmear Tactic
My interview with President Obama was as serious as you’d expect of a man who is professorially cerebral and gravitates toward long, thoughtful answers to complicated policy questions. Iran, Israel, domestic politics — all were on the agenda when I met with him in the Oval Office last Friday. READ: Have I Got a Bagel…
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Food Bullets and Bagels and All the Weekly Dish
We’re almost afraid to write about — a gun-and-nosh club founded by L.A. mohel Fred Kogen — but we’ll report and you decide. “Our premise is that there are Jews who either enjoy shooting sports or who have an interest in trying to shoot a firearm, but may feel overwhelmed or intimidated,” declares the group’s…
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Food Bay-Area Bagel Deficiency? A Response to the Times
Oakland, California’s Authentic Bagel Company, owned by Mark and Jason Scott (above), wasn’t mentioned in the Times’ Bay-Area bagel takedown. When the paper of record devotes almost 3,000 words of its Sunday magazine to the issue of , you know this is a matter of gravitas; that this is truly serious. Poking around the website…
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Food Marijuana-Smoked Salmon
Smoked salmon gets… elevated… Pot-smoked salmon has nothing to do with pan-seared fish. Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen](https://rosenbergsbagels.com/ “”) in Denver is infusing its “top-notch salmon” with marijuana, and [TheSmokersClub.com went behind the scenes to see how it’s done. Handy if you get the munchies, we guess. Watch here. And of course, it’s 100% legal in…
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Food WATCH: Schmear Lunacy!
Watch and learn, people. Watch and learn. You know, I just wasn’t getting enough calories and fat from the regular slick of cream cheese I usually spread on my bagel. The right way, it turns out, ups the ante considerably — and involves power tools. Before you dress up another bagel for Sunday brunch, take…
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