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Recipes Taste Testing ‘Modern Israeli Cooking’
Roasted garlic & apricot chicken garnered raves from a group of discerning dinner party guests. This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a new cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking her guests what they think of the results. She recently cooked her way through…
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Forward 50 2015 Alon Shaya
An Israeli restaurant in New Orleans doesn’t sound like a recipe for success, but when chef Alon Shaya opened his namesake eatery, Shaya, on Magazine Street this past February 2015, he proved the doubters wrong. In May, he won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: South for Domenica, another of the John Besh Group…
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Food Einat Admony Sets Date for Combina Opening
Einat Admony, chef-owner of Balaboosta, Bar Bolonat, Taim and the soon-to-open Combina. Foodies, mark your iCals: Chef and her husband and business partner Stefan Nafziger have set November 14 as the opening date for Combina, their new West Village Sephardic-tapas spot. Molly Breidenthal, who is executive chef at Admony’s Bar Bolonat, will also be executive…
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Food 6 Coolest Israeli-Inspired Dishes You Can Get in America
1) “Hudson Street” kibbeh with bulgur teardrops, spiced beef, pinenuts and preserved lemon yogurt at in New York 2) Green shakshuka with spinach, asparagus, pickled onion, zucchini and goat cheese with honey from New York’s Shuka Truck 3) Ice cream sandwich made with chocolate semifredo between two tahini cookies, with cherries and pistachio at Zahav…
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Food Beyond the Bagel — The Shuka Truck
Purely for research purposes, you understand, the author sampled both the traditional red shakshuka and the green version, with a sauce of asparagus and spinach. The website for — a recently opened, kosher-certified food truck in New York City — says it opens for business at 9 in the morning. That makes sense. Shakshuka, a…
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Books Taste Testing ‘Honey & Co.’
This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking her guests what they think of the results. She recently cooked her way through “Honey & Co: the Cookbook,” by Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer (Little, Brown and Company). Itamar…
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Recipes Beyond the Bagel — Kibbutz Breakfast
A simply delicious morning meal consisting of (clockwise from top) a corn and eggplant pashtida thick yogurt with olive oil and za’atar and a fresh chopped salad. The summer after I graduated college, I spent a month pruning grape vines on an organic vineyard in Tuscany. Tough life, I know. Each morning we volunteers would…
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Food Haute Middle Eastern Cuisine Arrives in New Jersey
Chef Elie Kahlon of Novo puts the finishing touch on a salmon dish. Diners at Novo, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, likely appreciate the spices, imported from the Middle East, that accent their meals. Some might even be aware that their food was cooked on an open-flame oven called a taboon or that a special Arabic…
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