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News L.A.’s Got Kosher closes restaurant to focus on challah
A stalwart of the Los Angeles kosher restaurant scene has closed its doors, citing the pandemic’s effect on business. The kosher Tunisian restaurant Harissa and its adjoining bakery and deli Got Kosher have closed for good, chef and owner Alain Cohen announced on Sunday. “We have been losing money for months and it is not…
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Recipes Our 10 best Jewish recipes of 2021
Food historians will look back at the pandemic as a time that pushed even more Americans to discover that meals can be something you make yourself. For those who already cooked regularly, quarantine, shortages and closed restaurants forced us to get even more creative, stretching ourselves into new techniques and cuisines. These 10 best recipes…
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News Seeking kosher Chinese food in Atlanta? The answer is just off Christmas Lane — really.
In Atlanta, just off a road called Christmas Lane, a Kroger grocery store stands in the heart of Toco Hills, the city’s largest Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. Inside the kosher supermarket, a small glatt kosher Chinese restaurant — Chai Peking — occupies a space of just 500 square feet. And around Yuletide, the traffic on Christmas…
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Food I tested five nondairy milks. Guess which makes the best pumpkin pie?
On a quest for the perfect dairy-free kosher pumpkin pie
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Food At the new Schmaltz Bros. kosher restaurant, you can get Nashville hot chicken, fried in, yes, schmaltz
Washington, D.C.’s only kosher food truck is putting it in park. The Schmaltz Bros food truck will soon be offering a blend of foods from different Jewish cultures at Hamakom, a kosher restaurant at the new Hillel space on George Washington University’s campus. Yehuda Makla, 37, Schmaltz Bros co-owner, grew up in the Orthodox Jewish…
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Food A Mexican Jew walks into a bar, and creates her own tequila
There once lived a woman in Guadalajara who was so beautiful that she was known as La Mujer Mas Bella — The Most Beautiful Lady. But it was her inner beauty that inspired her granddaughter, Dafna Mizrahi, to make tequila. “Everyone knew my grandma because of how beautiful she was, but more how internally beautiful…
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Culture Fried chicken & waffles, a South L.A. tradition, goes kosher
Update, 3/18/22: Melrose Bite announced today it was no longer kosher in an Instagram post. It’s the dawn of Kosher Food 3.0, at least in Los Angeles. Out with pastrami on rye and matzo ball soup. In with chicken-and-waffles. Yes — kosher chicken-and-waffles. The arrival of Melrose Bite, a kosher fried chicken joint in the…
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Food Gorky’s hot Russian borscht will revive your faith…in borscht
I miss Gorky’s. If you hung out in pre-gentrification downtown L.A., circa 1980, you’ll know what I mean. Gorky’s was a warehouse-sized cafe, open 24/7, a glorious Socialist workers commissary crossed with a starving artist cafe. You went there hungover at 11 a.m. for bottomless coffee and a slice of poppy seed cake, or at…
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