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Food 7 Insane Ice Cream Flavors With Deliciously Hebrew DNA
Funny, that ice cream doesn’t look Jewish. But one bite of the new rugelach ice cream at Quality Eats, a Manhattan steak house, reveals its Semitic roots: chewy chunks of rich rugelach from Orwasher’s, the century-old New York bakery, in a sweet-tart base of cream-cheese/sour-cream ice cream. The treat debuts this week. We started wondering…
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Food A Jewish Ice Cream Flavor for Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert inspired Ben & Jerry’s “AmeriCone Dream” ice cream, and the company named its “Late Night Snack” flavor for Jimmy Fallon. So, Neal Gottlieb thought it was time for that other late night funnyman — Jon Stewart — to also have his own ice cream variety. As it turned out, Gottlieb was better positioned…
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Food Frozen Friday: The Jerry Behind Ben & Jerry’s
In 1984 President Ronald Reagan declared July National Ice Cream Month. In honor of the month, we’ve been celebrating this delicious food each week with Frozen Fridays, a series about Jews and ice cream. This will be our last Frozen Friday post, so we thought we’d go out with a bang! Ice cream mavens Ben…
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Food Frozen Friday: Ice Cream Sodas Revisited
In 1984 President Ronald Reagan declared July National Ice Cream Month. In honor of the month, we’ll be celebrating this delicious food each week with Frozen Fridays, a series about Jews and ice cream. Ice cream sodas, once a staple of pharmacies and soda fountains are sprouting up across the U.S., bringing back a lost…
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Food Frozen Friday: Creating a Jewish Ice Cream Flavor
In 1984 President Ronald Reagan declared July National Ice Cream Month. In honor of the month, we’ll be celebrating this delicious food each week with Frozen Fridays, a series about Jews and ice cream. It all started when I tried to make a “Jewish” ice cream flavor. Is there such a thing? I thought about…
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Food Frozen Friday: ‘I’m Related to the Makers of Häagen-Dazs’
In 1984 President Ronald Reagan declared July National Ice Cream Month. In honor of the month, we’ll be celebrating this delicious food each week with Frozen Fridays, a series about Jews and ice cream. Until one of us makes the big time, my family’s singular claim to fame is that we’re related to Reuben and…
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