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Food PepsiCo Is Buying Sodastream For $3.2 Billion
For a premium of $144 a share, snack and drink conglomerate Pepsico has agreed to purchase Sodastream, the controversial make-your-own soda company from Israel. “PepsiCo is finding new ways to reach consumers beyond the bottle,” said PepsiCo President Ramon Laguarta. Why now? According to Nielson’s data, the grocery store is on the decline, with 70%…
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Food The Top 11 Jew-ish Cookbooks Coming Out This Fall
1.Now & Again by Julia Turshen– Out September 4, Chronicle Books This cookbook is an ode to leftovers, created by a woman who understands that social change begins at the table. What’s being served? Who gets to sit at these tables? Turshen answers these questions in her subtly pro-sustainability cookbook that tells you not only…
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Food Meet The Woman Turning Bagels Into A Gourmet Food
Black Seed Bagels’ Executive Chef Dianna Daoheung eats at least two bagels a day, every day. Now that Black Seed Bagels is opening up its fourth storefront, Daoheung doesn’t have time to hand-make every single bagel at the self-described “modern day bagel shop steeped in old world traditions.” But she still makes sure to try…
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Food Where To Find Kosher Haggis — Yes, It Exists.
Haggis is the national delicacy of Scotland and it’s not exactly known for its Jewish appeal. It’s a type of pudding made up of the liver, heart and lungs of a sheep, mixed with beef and oatmeal, seasoned with onion, cayenne pepper and other spices, then packed into a sheep’s stomach to be boiled. On…
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Food Has The Jewish-Created American Hot Dog Finally Assimilated?
The story of the New York hot dog is the story of the Jews, and the story of the American hot dog fits squarely in the purview of one Nathan Handwerker. What’s so Jewish about all-beef hot dogs? Historians follow the hot dog trail all the way back to Roman emperor Nero’s cook Gaius, who…
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Life During The AIDS Crisis, This Gay Jewish Cookbook Kept A Community Together
There’s a cookbook titled “Out of Our Kitchen Closets: San Francisco Gay Jewish Cooking.” It’s out of print. There are a few, remaining used copies floating around Amazon and eBay, but that’s it. The cover is colorful, a rainbow ending in piles of produce. This cookbook is the stuff of queer, hedonistic kitchen fantasy, chock…
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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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