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Food Mixing Bowl: Pastrami Panzanella; Best Delis
The future of the New York bagel is looking up thanks to efforts by Mile End and Russ and Daughters. [New York Magazine] Panzanella — a bread and tomato salad — is a favorite summer food. Here, it’s given a Jewish twist — pastrami and rye panzanella. [Epicurious] If you would rather have your pastrami…
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Food Searching for a Perfect Bagel Across the Pond
My last day in London, after a gloriously fattening week of Eccles cakes and Bakewell tarts, was a Sunday. Because it was a Sunday, I naturally required a bagel, per tradition. Having left for my summer European excursion as an Upper West Sider, I’ll admit that my initial reaction to nearly all of the bagels…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Kosher 7-Eleven, Babka Love
Is there actually something in the water that makes the classic chew of a New York Bagel the best, or is it all just bragging? [Smithsonian Food & Think] The world’s first kosher 7-Eleven in Monsey, N.Y. is now serving up Slurpees, snacks, and specialty hot dogs, cooked on a rabbi-blessed grill with a convenient…
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News A (Really) Frozen Bagel
Among the many things I’d resigned myself to leaving behind when my wife and I moved to Alaska from New York City — family and friends, Yankee Stadium, never having to drive — bagels topped the list. And I don’t mean the fluffy, soft roll-with-a-hole available at every Starbucks on earth. I’m talking about a…
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Food The Bagel, Perfected by Science
Two hundred years ago, famed philosopher Hegel wrote “The Science of Logic.” Sixteen decades later, Hall of Famer Ted Williams penned “The Science of Hitting.” Are we now ready for “The Science of Bagels”? Dan Graf is. While the 27-year-old resident of Oakland, Calif., hasn’t written a book (yet), he definitely is trying to re-write…
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Food New York’s Bagel Wars Continue
Updated Wednesday at 1:45pm When the Forward reported in January that H&H Bagels was evicted from its iconic West 46th Street bakery — a move that followed the closing of its Upper West Side storefront — it looked like curtains for the beloved purveyor of doughy discs. New York bagel lovers mourned the closing like…
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Food Mixing Bowl: ‘Perfect’ Bagel; Kosher Supper Club
What’s it like to run an underground kosher supper club and speakeasy? Itta Werdiger Roth, founder of The Hester, shares her story [Jewess With Attitude] A look into one of Israel’s largest challah bakeries. [The Kitchn] …and Israel’s largest hummus factory. [Serious Eats] Twenty-seven-year-old former genetics student Dan Graf is using science to build the…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Israeli Caviar; Kosher Wines in Napa
Some of the world’s finest caviar is coming from a kibbutz in Northern Israel. Who knew? [NPR] The owners of Schmendrick’s bagels are sharing their story and secrets of opening an artisanal bagel company. Last week we shared wtih you the beginning of their story, now, check out part 2 of the doughy tale. [Serious…
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