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Food 5 Halloween-Candy Alternatives Kids Will Hate More Than Raisins
They may have been a hit when the kiddies were still in strollers — when they picked them out of those little red boxes with sticky fingers. If raisins are received while trick-or-treating, however, they will most likely be used as tiny projectiles — ones that are more likely to be thrown at you than…
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The Schmooze Sorry, Gal Gadot — It’s Time To Admit That Israeli Chocolate Is Disgusting
Israel: a land flowing with milk and honey or, more literally, a land filled with cranes and beautiful, shirtless youths. Israelis and Jewish Americans are immensely proud of Israel’s accomplishments, specifically its junk food, for good reason. We describe Bamba, Aroma ice cafe, and bagged “shoko” as food of the gods. But sometimes, enthusiasm for…
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Food What Foods Are Campers Begging Parents To Send To Camp?
Unlike most camps, the one I went to when I was a kid actually allowed parents to send food. So there was no need to smuggle anything in. I was perhaps a bit more spoiled than the typical camper: My mother would send up a huge package filled with nosh before me and my siblings…
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Food 5 Sneaky Ways To Traffic Candy To Your Child In Camp
Sleepaway camps are great: The kids get to run around and be one with nature; while you, the parent, get to enjoy your summer free of kvetchy heat-stroke-afflicted children. But then, the Jewish guilt creeps in, and you begin to get anxious: Are they feeding my child enough? That feeling grows, especially as the letters…
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Food Sweet Celebration: Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews Turn 100
My mother wasn’t a candy person. (She was a salad person — though in restaurants she told everyone at the table what to order so she could taste the things she’d have preferred to eat if she wasn’t on a perpetual diet.) I can’t remember or even imagine my mother indulging in a Snickers or…
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Food Sweet Momentum at Undone Chocolate
Undone’s Himalayan Sea Salt bar. It’s a big day for when I visit. Of course, I think to myself. It’s the week before Valentine’s Day. “We just got a bunch of orders,” says Adam Kavalier, who co-founded the company with his wife, Kristen. Behind us, a grinder barrel whirs, churning 70-plus pounds of beans and…
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Food From Lingerie to ‘Luxury Candies’
Israeli-born Maayan Zilberman has made a career of smashing expectations. Tasty travel slides. Sweet sunglasses. Spicy envelopes. Maayan Zilberman’s “luxury candies” don’t look, feel or taste like any sweets you’ve seen. Under the moniker , the 36-year-old Israeli-born artist has been pleasantly shocking customers at her downtown Manhattan pop-up shop with mind-bending shapes (cassette tapes,…
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