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Food Swanky Vegan Comfort Food in Brooklyn, Through a Jewish Lens
Here’s renowned vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz on Modern Love, her new Williamsburg, Brooklyn, eatery: “Chinese food, Indian food, Jewish food obviously. Our menu has some Russian influences, some French-Canadian influences, but it’s really all through the lens of a Brooklyn Jew,” she tells the Village Voice. The resto’s website describes the cuisine as “swanky…
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Food Italian Eatery Becoming Deli for a Day
St. Louis chef Ben Poremba has announced a November 20 pop-up of AO&CO, the Jewish-deli concept he first teased in 2015. The provisional menu features bagels, smoked fish, chopped liver, chicken soup, corned and smoked beef brisket. The pop-up happens at Parigi, his acclaimed St. Louis resto. Jewish delis, Poremba tells the Post-Dispatch, are “kind…
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Food Heard It Through the Israeli Grapevine
The King David Wine Bar opened newishly, carved from a lobby renovation at Jerusalem’s iconic King David Hotel. You’ll find more than 85 wines, all Israeli and kosher, including 14 by the glass. And Bar a Vin in Tel Aviv, a recent addition to the white-hot scene there, showcases 38 wines from around the world,…
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News Do Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg Control the Algorithm that Controls Your News Feed?
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have built Facebook into the world’s largest social media site. Some think the two have also created the world’s largest news media site – and not everyone is happy about that. The average Facebook user has too many friends and follows too many pages for the site to display all…
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Food Countdown to Carnegie Deli’s Demise
A reminder that as of today, there are just two months to go in the countdown to Carnegie Deli’s demise. If you’ve never tried it, now’s the time. If, like our food editor, you have cherished memories of Carnegie, relive them while you still can. The legendary deli closes its doors forever on December 31….
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Food Kosher Food Coming to U.N. Cafeterias
(JTA) — The United Nations will begin serving kosher food in its cafeterias. The decision to introduce kosher food to the United Nations eateries on Monday comes less than a month after Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon wrote to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling for the change, pointing out that there are…
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Food Stealing the Ultimate Pickle Recipe
I laughed so hard last night while screening “The Pickle Recipe,” a new film that opens Friday, November 4. Starring the brilliant Lynn Cohen, who played Golda Meir in Munich and Magda on Sex and the City, the movie centers around a dysfunctional Jewish family whose matriarch, Rose, owns a deli in Detroit, where she…
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Food Cozy — and Kosher — in New Hampshire
What’s being billed as the first “luxury, year-round” kosher resort has opened in New Hampshire, of all places. The Arlington Hotel also boasts the “five-star” Birch Bistro, whose offerings even include “a decadent kosher continental breakfast.” Birch’s menu looks pretty middle-of-the-road, but beef tongue crustini [sic] and a pastrami on rye sub sound intriguing. More…
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