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News The Last Jewish Lox Slicer at Zabar’s
Lox Me Tender from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. Anne Rothstein stared through the counter glass, transfixed, as the knife slid through the fleshy pink salmon. “Amazing,” Rothstein said to herself. “You are amazing.” The subject of Rothstein’s praise, Len Berk, kept his eyes on the knife as it slid through the fish. Berk, 84,…
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Culture 159 Thoughts We Had While Watching ‘The Red Tent’
When Anita Diamant’s novel “The Red Tent” hit bookstores in 1997, Jewish women couldn’t devour it fast enough. The book focuses on Jacob and Leah’s daughter Dinah, who only gets one sentence in the Bible. Famously, it tries to upend the narrative of her rape, giving her a voice and a sense of agency that…
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Food The Shuka Truck Opens!
The Shuka Team gears up for its first eggcellent day. Photograph courtesy of The Shuka Team Catch The Shuka Truck today — you’ll recognize it by its lovely shade of eggshell — as it parks for the first time. For its main attraction, the Shuka team will be cooking up Shakshuka, of course — the…
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Food Food Trends Abound at Kosherfest
Inside Kosherfest 2014. Photograph by Liza Schoenfein The first food that jumped out at me yesterday when I walked into the vast Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey, for Kosherfest 2014 was the gluten-free granola. The latest offering from Foodman’s Original Matzolah, the cranberry-and-orange flavored product is wheat- and nut-free. Its prominent placement (Matzolah…
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Food Caught Between Gefilte Fish and Campbell’s Soup
Photograph by Edsel Little; Flickr When I first gravitated toward writing about food and immigration to the United States as an ostensibly serious academic, colleagues asked me — and, frankly, I asked myself — the obvious question. Why food? Food perhaps lacked the gravitas and significance of subjects like political, labor or immigration history. Academics…
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Culture The Foodlums of Connecticut
One Sunday this past August, I stopped by the farmers’ market in Morris, Connecticut. Morris is a small town (population about 2,400) in lush, hilly Litchfield County. It’s probably best known as the home of luxury resort Winvian, and its main intersections are governed only by a stop sign or a single red flashing light….
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Opinion 9 Sephardi Dishes That Won’t Make Buzzfeed Gag
If your signature dish can be mistaken for cat food, you’ve got a problem. Or that’s what Buzzfeed’s most recent experiment would have you believe. They got “random people” (aka non-Jews) to try classic Jewish foods for the first time and recorded their reactions. The response to gefilte fish? Gag. To kugel? Gag. To matzo…
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Food Home Delivery for the Holidays
Mile End’s Montreal Smoked Meat Sandwich Kit. Photograph courtesy of FoodyDirect. Back in March, the Forward reported that Houston deli extraordinaire Kenny & Ziggy’s had started shipping a Seder in a Box as part of its haimish offerings on specialty-food site FoodyDirect. Now, FoodyDirect’s Jewish quotient is getting upped again. Brooklyn’s own Mile End Deli…
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