The unmistakable smoky scent melted into the air — the kind of smell that sticks to your hair and clothes and refuses to leave. That’s barbecue. More specifically, that’s barbecue at the Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival, an event I attended in 2016 and in which my father, Eric Solomon, competed. May is National Barbecue Month…
Remember Chrismukkah of 2016, when Christmas fell smack in the middle of Hanukkah? Or Thanksgivukkah, that semi-rare event when Hanukkah happened to fall on that most American of holidays, Thanksgiving? (The last time this happened was 2013.) Now there’s another unicorn of a day. I’m talking about the fact that the barbecue-and-bonfire focused Lag Ba’Omer…
We’ll let the proprietors of Main House BBQ, a new kosher spot in Brooklyn, tell you about their place, which opens this week: “Back in the Borscht Belt, the Main House was the heart of the bungalow colony, a place where kids and adults congregated in the summer for two months of beautiful freedom. It…
Monty’s Deli is putting on the pounds. No, the owners aren’t gaining weight; the South London Jewish deli stall has raised more than £30,000 in a crowdfunding campaign for a permanent home. The weekends-only stall will open seven days a week if it can take over the East London venue it wants. Smoked meat, pastrami…
The sign going up at Izzy’s Brooklyn Smokehouse way back in January. He could have grown his own cow in the time it took to open, but Sruly Eidelman has finally cut the ribbon on , Brooklyn’s first stand-alone kosher barbecue joint. Back in October, the Forward reported that the restaurant — then called Izzy’s…
‘No soup for you!’ Watch Seinfeld’s best Soup Nazi moments here, then check out actor Larry Thomas’s latest work — a TV ad shot in Israel. The Soup Nazi’s big in Israel. Actor Larry Thomas, who portrayed the vicious ladler on Seinfeld, is starring in a commercial in the Holy Land. Watch “This Falafel is…
Courtesy of Hersh’s It must be a first for Baltimore: An Asian-Jewish culinary mashup, courtesy of an Italian joint and a hip local coffee shop. Siblings Stephanie and Josh Hershkovitz, who own Hersh’s pizzeria in downtown Baltimore, are teaming with Phil Han, the Korean-American owner of sleek new cafe Dooby’s, on a June 19 Jew-sian…
As a consummate foodie, my mind makes instant connections between food and people. It’s like I’m wearing Google Glass with an app that sends me food information about everything I see, whether I know it or not. The other night, for example, I was attending a function at a beautiful home in Beverly Hills and…
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