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Food Fishwife brings elegance, taste and style to…canned fish?
When it comes to fish, crudo is cool. Ceviche is cool. But canned tuna and sardines? Not so much. Seven months ago, two 20-somethings set out to rectify that when they founded Fishwife, a company that sells tinned fish that is tasty, good for the planet, fancifully packaged, and healthy to boot. At the start…
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Food A Brooklyn Hasid and Ohio Christian farmer create kosher recipes to feed the needy
Alexander Rapaport is a Brooklyn Chasid with a black beard and payes who dresses in the traditional black coat, white shirt and prayer shawl. Lee Jones is an Ohio born-and-bred Christian farmer known by his uniform of blue overalls and red bowtie. Since their first meeting seven years ago at a conference for culinary leaders…
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Food Baked Butternut Squash with Onion Caramel
Serves: 4 Original recipe: Page 54-55 The Chef’s Garden By Farmer Lee Jones Kosher issue: Meat and dairy Recipe adapted by: Chef Jordana Hirschel This recipe called for cornish hens glazed with a buttery onion caramel. After speaking with Chef Jamie Simpson, I learned that the focus of the dish was not chicken itself, but…
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Fast Forward Dispatch from Surfside’s only kosher market
To get a sense of how Surfside’s Jewish community has grown in recent years, head to Kosherland, a humble three-aisle grocery located a few blocks from the collapsed Champlain South condominium, and try to buy milk. Kosherland is the only kosher market in Surfside, and soon it will expand into the neighboring two storefronts. But…
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News How the heck did a ham get a kosher certification? This man knows.
Paul Finkelman was shopping for groceries at Price Chopper supermarket in Albany, NY, when his son asked him to come over to the deli aisle. Finkelman’s son, who had been looking for turkey, found packages of Price Chopper’s store-brand PICS sliced ham stamped with the Orthodox Union’s (OU) kosher certification. Finkelman was surprised that the…
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News Halva brownies and miso shakshuka: The UAE’s first major kosher kitchen opens for business
The gleaming new industrial kitchen on the grounds of one the Arab world’s busiest airport wouldn’t be remarkable except for one fact: it’s kosher. Kosher Arabia at Dubai World Central (DWC) airport is a registered producer of kosher food in the United Arab Emirates, set up in partnership with Emirates Flight Catering and CCL Holdings….
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Fast Forward Can shrimp and crab make your kosher Sabra hummus Salmonella-free?
There is a possible solution to Salmonella contamination in your kosher hummus: Shrimp and crabs. On Monday, Sabra, the world’s leading hummuseria, issued a voluntary recall on some containers of its Classic Hummus, a certified kosher product, for possible Salmonella contamination. According to a statement by Sabra and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), approximately…
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Culture Was the Last Supper a ‘Seder?’ And 3 other vital Passover questions, asked and answered.
When we ask at our Seders why this night is different from all other nights, there are the stock responses and the ones we take for granted. We receive explainers on slouching, unleavened bread and why we dip our herbs. We don’t get into what Jesus’ Passover plans were in Jerusalem. In our Haggadot, we…
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