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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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Culture Of Bill Clinton, Bagels and 9 Other Things About (Jewish) Arkansas
1) 1,725 Jews live in Arkansas. 2) In the early 1820’s, Abraham Block, a store owner, became the first Jew to settle in Arkansas. 3) Little Rock’s B’nai Israel, founded in 1866, is the state’s oldest Jewish congregation. 4) In the early 1880’s, a group of Jewish pioneers from New York founded the Am Olam…
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Food Ess-A-Wrap for Beloved Bagel Shop
Photograph by Angela N./Flickr For bagel lovers, there’s going to be a hole on Manhattan’s east side — but not for long. After nearly 40 years of bagel-baking and nosh-slinging, Ess-A-Bagel will close its Gramercy location, on 21st Street and 1st Avenue, at the end of January. But — hold the schmear — another bagelry…
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Opinion The Back-to-the-Future Bagel
Noted food writer and bagel connoisseur Mimi Sheraton once wrote in The New York Times longingly about proper, old-fashioned New York bagels — small, dense beings with the perfect chew to their center and snap to their crust: “I remember them well…. Their like will not come this way again.” Three years later, bagels are…
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Food Sunday Brunch Happiness
Photogaph by Liza Schoenfein Blissful Sunday, thanks to Murray’s Sturgeon Shop on New York’s Upper West Side. The Eastern Nova is as buttery as ever, and sliced to translucent perfection by the inimitable Ira Goller. Liza Schoenfein is the food editor of the Forward. Contact her at [email protected].
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Culture Of Egg Creams, Ed Koch and 49 Other Facts You Didn’t Know About Jewish New York
1. The first Jews to set foot in North America arrived in New York as a group of 23 in 1654. 2. Congregation Shearith Israel, founded in New York in 1654, was the first synagogue in the colonies. It was the sole purveyor of kosher meat until 1813. 3. By the late 19th century, there…
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Food A No-Guilt (Vegan) Schmear for Your Bagel
This cream cheese beats the pants off Tofutti. Photograph by Hadas Margulies As a follow-up to my post on gluten-free vegan pumpkin bagels, I thought it was only fitting to share with you a whole new world of cream cheese: the raw, vegan one. I love raw foods, because no nutrients are lost in their…
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Food Russ and Daughters Heads Uptown
Michael Harlan Turkell As a kid growing up on New York’s Upper East Side, I had appetizing envy. My West Side friends had Zabar’s, Murray’s Sturgeon Shop, and Barney Greengrass. Downtown, of course, there was Russ & Daughters. Sure, there were a few Jewish delis like P.J. Bernstein’s, and eventually fancier shops like Sable’s, but…
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