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Fast Forward Israeli Food Startup Aims to Make Meat — Minus the Animal
The founders of an Israeli food tech startup want you to enjoy your meat without the guilt — in fact, without the animal. SuperMeat, which launched in December and began an online crowdfunding campaign Monday, is developing a method for bioengineering “cultured meat” from animal cells. Its tagline: “Real meat, without harming animals.” Imagine a…
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Food Pita Is Hot, Hot, Hot at New San Francisco Falafel Spot
The first thing that caught my eye when I entered the new Sababa restaurant in San Francisco was an old advertising poster for Jaffa oranges — showing an Arab orange vendor sitting on a blanket smoking a hookah with a fellow Arab who has ridden up on a donkey. It harkened back to a different…
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Food Ashkenazi Cooking Classes With a View
Author and foodie Suzanne Parker, who splits her time between Queens and Woodstock, New York, is offering Cooking Classes with a View at her upstate home. Lessons focus on Ashkenazi staples like potato knishes and cheese blintzes. Classes take place “on a mountainside in Shady, just outside Woodstock, in a house blessed with a spectacular…
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Food Finding Faith in a Glass of Homemade Kombucha
Becky O’Brien’s delicious homemade kombucha helped her connect to the everyday miracles around us. It was faith that made me do it. Despite all my doubts and disbelief, I figured that if other people can make a little seed turn into food, then so can I! And lo and behold, I did it. Well, not…
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Food An American Cookout With Middle Eastern Flair
How do you put a Jewish twist on a Fourth of July barbecue? Take summer staples — burgers, watermelon, even a red-white-and blue frozen dessert — and add an Israeli accent. Instead of the usual hamburger, there’s a spiced lamb burger with garlicky mint pesto. Watermelon comes in the form of a cool sweet-and-salty salad,…
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Food Iraqi Lamb Burgers With Mint Pesto
A burger infused with Middle Eastern spices — mint, cinnamon and allspice — and with added pine nuts is a nice break from a traditional American hamburger. (Note: When the Forward tested this recipe, we made 8 patties instead of 6, and cooked them longer than the recipe indicates — about 5 minutes per side.)…
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Food Coconut Sorbet With Summer Berries
Coconut milk offers the richness of cream without the dairy. Red and blue berries dot the white sorbet, lending it a distinctly patriotic appearance, perfect for the Fourth of July — or any hot summer day. Also on the Menu 15-Minute Black-Bean “Mujadara” Iraqi Lamb Burgers With Mint Pesto Watermelon Salad With Black Olives, Basil…
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Food Chabad Rabbi Is ‘Chopped’ in Final Round of Food Network Showdown With Fellow Clerics
“Judges, no joke: A nun, a priest, a pastor and a rabbi have walked into the Chopped kitchen!” That’s how Ted Allen, host of the Food Network’s Chopped, kicked off the competition on Tuesday night’s show. Called “Leap of Faith,” the hour-long episode pitted four foodie spiritual leaders against one another to see who could…
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