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Food Eizenshtein Is the New Baker On the Block
Chocolate babka (above) is one of the specialties at the new Eizenshtein’s Bakery. I was thrilled to hear a couple of weeks ago that a chef friend of mine was about to open his own bakery. Naturally, I had to get the inside scoop. Israeli-born Johnny Eizenshtein moved to the States two years ago, when…
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Food A Pre-Purim Peek at the Kosher Food & Wine Experience
The 10th annual , held at Chelsea Piers last week, featured an exciting lineup of kosher wine, spirits and tasty treats — many of which came from first-time vendors at the event. With the new KWFE 2016 phone app ready to go (no more paper pamphlets to scribble my notes in!), I began wandering the…
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Food Gillibrand Urges More Kosher Food to Food Banks
JTA — U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand asked the Department of Agriculture about reports of shortages of halal and kosher food at food banks. “I am deeply concerned by reports of shortages of Kosher and Halal foods available to the many observant individuals and families facing hunger and food insecurity in New York and throughout our…
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Food By the Way, a Gluten-Free Kosher Bakery
For 22 years, Helene Godin was a hard-charging lawyer for companies like Audible and Bloomberg. These days, she’s a different kind of advocate. As founder of , a purveyor of gluten-free, dairy-free and kosher breads and desserts, Godin’s become an unlikely champion of alternative eating. For someone who swears she couldn’t bake before beginning her…
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Fast Forward Dutch Plan Oversight of Kosher Slaughter — Ban Export
The Dutch government announced it plans to limit ritual slaughter through new measures, including a ban on the export of kosher and halal meat. Agriculture Minister Martijn van Dam announced his government’s plan to limit ritual slaughter in the kingdom on Wednesday, in a letter he sent to the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of…
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Culture Why Isn’t There More of a Hoohah About Kosher Bacon?
A recent culinary phenomenon has caught my eye: the steady advance of “kosher bacon,” a meat product that looks and tastes like the real thing. What intrigues me is not its popularity, or the ways in which once intact boundaries between kosher cuisine and its nonkosher counterparts have been increasingly erased. What I find most…
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Fast Forward Tiny Iowa Town’s Jews Bounce Back After Agriprocessors Raid
POSTVILLE, Iowa (JTA) – On a frigid evening late last month, Aron Schimmel, the Chabad emissary here, sat in a deli at the back of the glatt kosher supermarket sipping from a can of Israeli mango juice. A sign posted next to the entranceway boasted of the presence of Jewish life in this working-class town…
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Food Babka’s the New Bagel — Plus All the Weekly Dish
The babka ice-cream sandwich at Russ & Daughter’s Café. Extra, extra, read all about it: Babka’s “the new bagel!” That’s the breaking news in February issue. “Babka is just like Taylor Swift during her country music period,” the magazine enthuses. “A niche figure ready for the crossover to mainstream star.” The babka ice-cream sandwich at…
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