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Recipes What To Eat When You’re Recovering From Cancer
In 2018, an estimated 1,735,350 people were diagnosed with cancer, making it one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Chances are someone you know or will know in your lifetime will have cancer. Sarah Grossman and Tamara Green, both experts in cancer-care cooking, are familiar with these statistics. The two holistic nutritionists embarked on…
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Food ‘MeToo! Hummus’ Is Trying To Change Its Name To Literally Anything Else
Ramona Hazan’s vegan and gluten-free MeToo! hummus hasn’t been flying off the shelves recently, due to an unfortunate coincidence. After all, ‘me too’ tends to remind shoppers of viral hashtags telling horrifying stories of sexual harassment, instead of the catchy brandname it once was fourteen years ago. At first, Hazan thought she could capitalize on…
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Food Jewish Foodies Are Turning Increasingly To Mexican Food — Despite The Politics
Over the past ten years, Jews have flirted with Mexican-Jewish food, creating unexpected fusion recipes (poblano matzo balls, anyone?), kosher taquerias, and Jewish-Mexican bakeries. With Izzy Eidelman, the creator of Izzy’s Kosher Steakhouse, now setting his sights on a taqueria in the beta-testing kosher area of Crown Heights (after all, if you can open a…
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The Schmooze Mark Zuckerberg Slaughtered A Goat For Twitter’s Jack Dorsey
The beleaguered CEO of Facebook has achieved media ignominy once more, and this time it’s not Russia’s fault. In a Rolling Stone interview crafted by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s crack PR team to justify why Twitter is still so chock-full of Nazis, Dorsey revealed that Mark Zuckerberg served him a goat he killed with a…
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Food Babka Fervor Is Spreading From Brooklyn To The Bay Area
Despite New York’s recent babka boom, it is Palo Alto, of all places, that is home to the only babka-centric bakery in the world. Silicon Valley’s appetite for babka has proven insatiable at Ayelet Babka Bakery, where the sweet and savory babkas sell out by early afternoon every day. When the bakery’s founder Ayelet Nuchi…
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Fast Forward A Canadian Inmate Was Denied Kosher Food Because Her Background Looks Christian
Hayden Patterson, an inmate at the Surrey Pretrial centre, has filed a complaint about being denied the kosher food she requested, claiming she has identified as Jewish since she was fifteen. Lawyers for the centre argue that her background looks Christian. “She could not point to a single connection to the Jewish community prior to…
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Food Top 7 Foods To Bring To A Shiva House
It’s not always easy to know what to say to someone in mourning. A lot of times people can make the mistake of saying ‘it was meant to be,’ or ‘at least they didn’t suffer,’ or ‘well, she was pretty old, wasn’t she?’ So instead of putting your foot in your mouth, consider giving your…
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Food Israel Ranks 6th World-Wide For Veganism Popularity In 2018
In a recent Chef’s Table analysis of world-wide vegan habits, Israel was ranked 6th for the second year in a row, with a Vegan Popularity Score of 78. This is no surprise, considering that at least 5.2% of Israelis follow a vegan diet, and even fast food pizza brand Domino’s decided Israel was the place…
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