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Food Vegan Shwarma Is Taking Tel Aviv By Storm
What is the shwarma experience? It’s an indulgent pita sandwich dripping with fresh salads, tahini sauce dribbling down the sides, vegetables and amba. A couple of crispy fries topping the entire concoction never hurts. Oh, and it’s filled with shawarma. At new restaurant Sultana, that shawarma is completely vegan, harming zero animals in its making….
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Food Meet The Canadian Woman Who’s Breaking The Glass Bong Ceiling
Legal pot in Canada has sparked a massive, sometimes wild growth industry. But in one aspect, the new boss is the same as the old boss, to paraphrase The Who: Almost all public cannabis companies are run by men. Alison Gordon is the only exception. The CEO of 48North Cannabis Corp, Canada’s first licensed producer…
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Food How Crisco Overtook Schmaltz In American Jewish Cooking
“Crisco Recipes For The Jewish Housewife” was a slim, 77-paged piece of marketing material slash cookbook, manufactured by Proctor and Gamble and copyrighted in 1933. Crisco, the first brand of shortening to be made entirely of vegetable oil, happened to be neither dairy nor meat, making it the perfect product to hawk to Yiddish speaking…
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Life The Ultimate Jerusalem Food Crawl: Mahane Yehuda’s Most Tantalizing Must-Eats
Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Shuk is a vibrant market by day, and a party, live music and a bar scene by night. There’s unparalleled exuberance, history and character to this market, which was established at the dawn of the 19th century, went through many upheavals, and an eventual revival. The nonchalant elderly men play backgammon in…
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Food This Israeli Startup Promises To Keep Pizza Fresh For 8 Weeks
Vacuum packing is ideal for some food products but other items are too delicate to survive the process without being squashed, says Michel Habib, founder and chairman of Israel-based Timeless Foods Technologies Ltd. Founded in 2012 and based in Ramat Gan, a town in the Tel Aviv area, Timeless Foods develops a firm disposable plastic…
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Food Yes, A Poppyseed Bagel Can Make You Fail A Drug Test
Who doesn’t enjoy a nice, warm chewy bagel first thing in the morning? Well, if you’re about to take a drug test, as the Washington Post reported, you might want to opt out. The poppies on poppyseed bagels are gleaned from opium poppies, which contain trace amounts of morphine that may wreak havoc on drug…
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Food Anthony Bourdain’s Beloved ‘Pastrami Queen’ Expands To Times Square
Pastrami Queen’s been open for 60 years and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. This deli, known for its signature oversized pastrami on rye, stuffed with mounds of the meat, was Anthony Bourdain’s New York deli go to. It is now expanding to a location inside the Pearl Hotel, in Times Square. The menu…
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The Schmooze Is Shabbat A Way To Combat Millennial Loneliness?
Millennials, the media would have you believe, have both destroyed the nuclear family and the fabric softener industry. These unfortunate adult children are both addicted to social media and terribly, woefully lonely. They’re short on funds but long on anxiety. Is everyone born between between 1981 and 1996 just doomed? What could fix Generation X…
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