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Fast Forward Something sinister compounded the cream cheese shortage: a cyberattack
The cream-cheese crisis that has deprived bagel eaters and cheesecake bakers during the past week was quickly chalked up to supply-chain issues that have dogged manufacturers across industries. Turns out a cyberattack is also partly to blame for the schmear shortage. One of the country’s largest producers of cream cheese, Schreiber Foods of Wisconsin, was…
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Culture No cream cheese? No problem. A dozen alternate bagel toppings.
We’re sure you’ve heard by now. First it was toilet paper. Then coins. At last, the supply chain’s woes have hit us squarely in the Jewish soul: there’s a cream cheese shortage in New York. While various reports have it that some bagel places are still schmearing enough Philadelphia to top a sugar cone, many…
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Pumpkin donuts, lighter latkes and drinks to go with them
The donuts are made with vitamin-packed pureed pumpkin and the latkes are lo-carb, yet tasty and crunchy
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Culture Do we seriously need ugly sweater-themed cookie kits for Hanukkah?
Just in time for Hanukkah, Manischewitz has debuted two new twists on what it claims is a festive tradition: Hanukkah-themed — wait for it — sugar cookies. The new kits, including one that is ugly sweater-themed, join the company’s longstanding Hanukkah dessert line, which also includes donut mix and do-it-yourself Chanukah Houses — because everyone…
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Fast Forward More money needed for kosher and halal food, says Jewish anti-poverty agency
The nation’s largest Jewish anti-poverty charity is warning that more government funding is needed to provide meals to struggling New Yorkers who keep kosher or eat only halal foods. “The sad reality is that kosher and halal emergency food is underfunded in New York,” said David Greenfield, CEO of the Met Council. “Simply put that…
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Food At the new Schmaltz Bros. kosher restaurant, you can get Nashville hot chicken, fried in, yes, schmaltz
Washington, D.C.’s only kosher food truck is putting it in park. The Schmaltz Bros food truck will soon be offering a blend of foods from different Jewish cultures at Hamakom, a kosher restaurant at the new Hillel space on George Washington University’s campus. Yehuda Makla, 37, Schmaltz Bros co-owner, grew up in the Orthodox Jewish…
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Food This old Sephardic recipe will become your go-to chocolate birthday cake
Our all-time favorite family birthday cake is a Sephardi Jewish Passover cake. I got the recipe from my mother’s friend Lucie Ades, whose family came from France and was of Spanish ancestry. I am guessing that they were from Bayonne in Southwest France, where Jews fleeing the Inquisition in the early sixteenth century settled and…
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Food Here’s the new Mediterranean cookbook you need now
At 85, Claudia Roden published her twelfth cookbook, “Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean: Treasured Recipes From a Lifetime of Travel”
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