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Food Are The Fried Locusts In My Taco Kosher?
The beady eyes in my taco glare back amid the citrus salsa and avocado, and peek out from behind a leaf of cilantro. The first bite is crunchy, and faintly nutty, like toasted corn — if toasted corn came with six legs and a pair of wings. Before long I’m popping individual fried locusts into…
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Food Star Israeli Chef Teams With Ex-Chipotle Execs On Falafel Franchise
Einat Admony has made a name for herself in New York City. The Israeli-born chef owns a few restaurants, like Balaboosta and Bar Bolonat, which have attracted a lot of interest. But there are those who say that her real forte is her two fast-food restaurants (actually two-and-a-half) called Taïm that sell falafel in SoHo and…
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Food Brooklyn BBQ King Set To Conquer NY-Style Deli
“I’m a kid from Brooklyn. I grew up around every deli you can imagine,” says Billy Durney, the pitmaster of New York’s most acclaimed barbecue restaurant Hometown Bar-B-Q. Among those delis, some Polish, others Italian or Russian, were Jewish spots like the Mill Basin Deli, and across the bridge in Manhattan, Carnegie, Second Avenue and…
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Food Manischewitz CEO Receives Anti-Defamation League Award
The Manischewitz Company’s president and CEO, David Sugarman, was honored last week by the Anti-Defamation League, which gave him its Americanism award. The award, which has previously gone to recipients including tennis star Venus Williams and former New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, honors “exceptional individuals who exemplify the noble ideals and democratic values…
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Food Russ & Daughters Makes Twitter Top 10 List
Twitter just released a list of the New York City restaurants that were most tweeted about in 2017 — and Jewish appetizing icon Russ & Daughters (@LoxPopuli) is No. 3. That the 103-year-old stalwart has been embraced so thoroughly by social media is not entirely surprising. Owners Josh Russ Tupper and Niki Russ Federman, first…
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Food Is Trader Joe’s ‘Bamba’ The Real Thing — Or A Brilliant Rip-Off?
News broke recently that discount and prepared-food emporium Trader Joe’s is now carrying Bamba, Israel’s most iconic snack food. There was so much excitement across the internet about the news that I envisioned my local Trader Joe’s having to add a weekday bouncer. (Yes, they often have a weekend bouncer. Yes, this is Brooklyn.) For…
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Food Absolute Bagels Reopens After Revolting Health Reports — But Can It Recover?
If there’s one day of the year when New Yorkers have a high tolerance for all things gross and unappetizing it’s Halloween. So it’s fitting that Absolute Bagels reopened that day, after being cited by the Department of Health and temporarily closed October 26 for a number of revolting violations. These included “evidence of mice…
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Food Beloved East Village Café Closes After 36 Years
Café Orlin, a beloved eatery in Manhattan’s East Village that served hummus and other Israeli/Middle Eastern dishes — along with popular, inexpensive breakfasts and other classic American fare — is closing its doors today after 36 years in business. Once one of the only places in New York to offer the flavors of North Africa…
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