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Food Is Trader Joe’s ‘Bamba’ The Real Thing — Or A Brilliant Rip-Off?
News broke recently that discount and prepared-food emporium Trader Joe’s is now carrying Bamba, Israel’s most iconic snack food. There was so much excitement across the internet about the news that I envisioned my local Trader Joe’s having to add a weekday bouncer. (Yes, they often have a weekend bouncer. Yes, this is Brooklyn.) For…
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Fast Forward All Is Now Right In The World, Because Bamba Is Coming To Trader Joe’s
Look, 2017 has been a tough year. Political divisions have torn our country apart. Climate change is making our planet increasingly inhospitable. “The Emoji Movie” was a thing. But lo, good news has emerged from the food wizards of Monrovia, California: Trader Joe’s will soon be selling Bamba. The famed Israeli snack, which is frustratingly…
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Community How Israel Beat Peanut Allergies
Allergy advocacy used to be easy. Given the potentially tragic consequences of , everyone assumed a simple formula: the more precautions the better. In wealthy countries like the United States, ever greater accommodations were made to ensure that allergy sufferers were separated from the foods that could do them harm. Nut-free schools went from unheard…
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Fast Forward Could Tasty Israeli Snack Be Answer to Peanut Allergies — in America?
American parents should be feeding their babies peanut products to avoid severe allergies later in life — just like the Israelis do. Israeli consumption of Bamba, Israel’s popular peanut-flavored corn puff snack, is likely the reason that Israeli children have a low incidence of peanut allergies, say health reports. The National Institute of Allergies and…
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Food Top 10 Israeli Foods to Celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut
Israeli food has come into its own. Like the population, the cuisine is a fusion of influences from around the world, and a generation of young chefs has added sophistication and skill to the mix. But all the innovation and sophistication would fall flat without the building blocks: simple dishes and locally grown seasonal fruits…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Nora Ephron Cookbook; Bamba and Jezebel
The fantastic Paris-based food writer David Lebovitz is in Israel and has taken us along for the ride on his blog. [David Lebovitz] An introduction and an ode to the Israeli snack food Bamba. [Serious Eats] New York’s newest hip kosher restaurant Jezebel is finally set to open. [Women’s Wear Daily] One mother schlepps kosher…
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Life Bamba at Heart of Rabbinic Dispute
An absurd argument over blessing snack food may help decide the future leader of Jerusalem’s Sephardi movement. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and Rabbi David Yosef, the two sons of Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Jerusalem Ovadia Yosef, leading Sephardi authority and spiritual leader of the political group Shas, have long fought over inheriting their elderly father’s kingdom….
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