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Food Israel’s Top Chef Brings Haute Middle Eastern To Manhattan
Soon after I sat down at a banquette in the back of Nur, the new kid on the block of East 20th Street that’s also home to Gramercy Tavern, chef Meir Adoni brought over a warm, golden, sesame-seed-studded oval bread paired with a dish of what appeared to be hummus. But hummus it was not….
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Food Delicious Doc Puts Israeli Food Center Stage
Is there such a thing as Israeli food? The good news is that filmmaker Roger Sherman went looking and came up with a mouthwatering documentary, “In Search of Israeli Cuisine,” which opens in Manhattan at the Angelika Film Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on March 24. Perhaps less good news is that there doesn’t seem…
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Recipes Halva Ice Cream With Sour Cherries
We knew soft serve would be an integral part of our dessert menu at V Street. We did not, however, realize that a soft-serve machine would cost more than some cars or that it requires about a day’s worth of labor to keep it tuned up each week! But the ice creams themselves are so…
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Recipes The Secret to Perfect Falafel
My friend Nancy Silverton went to Israel last year and came home with a rough, scribbled- down secret “recipe” for how to make what she promised were falafel so crispy, crunchy, and flavorful that they turned her, a falafel skeptic, into a believer. The first time I looked at it, I thought there was something…
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Community Beyond Hummus: 5 Foods You Absolutely Must Eat in Israel (Sponsored)
So you’re going to Israel, and you love hummus, and you love falafel, and you can’t wait to eat a lot of hummus and falafel, and your cousin’s uncle’s sister-in-law knows the best place for hummus and falafel, and so on. Although this may be difficult to imagine, there may come a moment when some…
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Food Top Food Trends to Taste in 2017
There was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when it felt like the foods of the Ashkenazi culinary canon needed saving. Pastrami, once a well-spiced meat, had turned into a salty ghost of its former self; matzo balls wallowed in flavorless broth, and bagels had become puffed-up versions of what they once were. Thankfully, a…
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Food NY Shuk Offers Israeli Condiments and Cooking Classes to Give — or Take
Since moving to Brooklyn from Israel a little over four years ago, Ron and Leetal Arazi have dedicated themselves to sharing the Middle Eastern and North African foods they grew up with through their artisanal company New York Shuk. They met in the kitchen of a Tel Aviv restaurant — he at the meat station;…
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Food A ‘Tahini’ Set for Hanukkah
While you might associate tahini with a falafel stand (where they probably pronounce it t’china), a health food store or the iconic orange and brown Joyva can, the Israeli staple truly hit the American mainstream in 2016. Epicurious dubbed it “the new kale,” The New York Times ran a feature on the sesame-paste spread and…
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