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Recipes How To Make Easy, Delicious Za’atar Chicken — When You Don’t Have Any Za’atar In The House
It’s true. I made one of my favorite easy dinners — chicken with the Middle Eastern spice blend za’atar — even after discovering that I didn’t have any za’atar left. And even with the added time it took to make my own mixture (of course I’m going to tell you how), the chicken pictured above…
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Food New Yorkers Experience The Ultimate Israeli Brunch
A day after attending James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov’s Israeli brunch, part of the New York City Wine & Food Festival (NYCWFF), I’m still too full to type much — so my pictures will have to tell most of the story. First, there was a basket of beautiful little bourekas, flaky pastries filled with…
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Food Finding The Best Bourekas On The Planet
It’s an unforsaken hour and I’m flying over the Atlantic Ocean towards Tel Aviv in August. The dinner cart is making its way down the aisle, knocking elbows and dispensing hot mini pitas. I order the chicken. The answer to any question about what you’d like to eat on a plane should always include the…
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The Schmooze Sorry, Gal Gadot — It’s Time To Admit That Israeli Chocolate Is Disgusting
Israel: a land flowing with milk and honey or, more literally, a land filled with cranes and beautiful, shirtless youths. Israelis and Jewish Americans are immensely proud of Israel’s accomplishments, specifically its junk food, for good reason. We describe Bamba, Aroma ice cafe, and bagged “shoko” as food of the gods. But sometimes, enthusiasm for…
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Food Yotam Ottolenghi’s New Dessert Book Has The ‘Sweet’ Smell Of Success
A new book by Yotam Ottolenghi is cause for celebration. And when the book in question, from the author of such wildly popular cookbooks as “Plenty” and “Jerusalem,” comes out with a tome devoted entirely to dessert, well, it almost feels like we should declare a holiday. Not a national one, mind you, but one…
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Recipes Blackberry And Star Anise Friands From Yotam Ottolenghi
These friands, little French cakes whose elegance and svelteness somehow betray quite how much (burnt) butter is built into their being, look splendid when iced — destined for top ranking on any tiered cake stand — but also work with no icing, in the cookie jar, for grabbing on a whim. They’ll lose their slightly…
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Recipes Gorgeous Apple Galette From Star Chef Alon Shaya For Rosh Hashanah
Chef Alon Shaya has won pretty much every culinary plaudit possible for bringing his gorgeously elevated take on Israeli cuisine to New Orleans. At his award-winning restaurant Shaya at the High Holidays, he can be relied upon to create a Rosh Hashanah menu that incorporates holiday symbolism with Middle Eastern flavors and fresh local ingredients….
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Fast Forward A Jew And An Arab Opened An Ice Cream Parlor Together…
Two Israelis — a Jew and an Arab — have created a chilly partnership — through ice cream. Adam Ziv, from a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee region of Israel, and Alaa Sweitat, from the nearby Arab village of Tarshiha, created Buza Ice Cream in 2012. Five years later, the pair have five ice cream parlors…
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