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Food Israeli Street Food in Brooklyn + More Hot Dish
The Kiosk, the summer concession at Brooklyn’s 12 Chairs Café, is back online for summer with some delicious-sounding menu additions. Along with Israeli-street-food staples like pita and falafel, sabich and terrific hummus, you’ll now fine a shakshuka pita with feta cheese, green omelet pita with herbs, cream cheese and salad. Wash it down with Israeli…
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Food Coolhaus Rolls Out Ice Cream Sandwich Summer Giveaway
From Coolhaus, the gourmet ice cream company that created the decidedly nonkosher pastrami ice cream sandwich, come two new “sammies”: “Pie in the Sky” — frosted whoopee cookie with a mascarpone cheesecake ice cream with crumbled Biscoff cookies and a strawberry swirl — and “Jet Set Crunch” — brown-sugar cookie with pretzels and butterscotch chips,…
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Food James Corden Goes From Late-Night Comedy to Kosher Butchering
When I watched James Corden host the Tony’s last weekend, I didn’t imagine that the next time I saw the British comedian he’d be wearing a kippa and an apron in a kosher butcher shop, ringing up sales and cutting up steaks. Then I saw this hysterical video. As part of a running sketch called…
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Food Chabad Rabbi Is ‘Chopped’ in Final Round of Food Network Showdown With Fellow Clerics
“Judges, no joke: A nun, a priest, a pastor and a rabbi have walked into the Chopped kitchen!” That’s how Ted Allen, host of the Food Network’s Chopped, kicked off the competition on Tuesday night’s show. Called “Leap of Faith,” the hour-long episode pitted four foodie spiritual leaders against one another to see who could…
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Food Whisky Jewbilee, All Grown Up
Other people’s kids: You see them born, you see them grow, you write reviews of them. That’s how I feel about the fifth-annual Whisky Jewbilee that took place on June 15. I was there at its birth — the only national correspondent in attendance at the first Whisky Jewbilee in 2012 as it opened in…
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Food Kosher Sushi and All the Week’s Dish
What’s Yiddish for “California Roll”? Sushi’s become a staple for the kosher crowd, says The New York Times. More than 100 kosher sushi spots operate in Brooklyn alone — and most have opened in the last decade. Why? It’s parve. It’s convenient. And “you have your protein, carbohydrates and vegetables all in one,” says one…
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Food The 9 Best Jewish Food Trucks in the U.S.
JTA — Summer is upon us. And that means swimsuits, summer camps, sticky temperatures — and food trucks. True, many of these trendy restaurants-on-wheels are known to ply their wares in the depths of winter. But as the weather warms, everyone from office workers to tourists find themselves beckoned outside for lunch. Sadly, kosher options…
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Food Schmaltz By the Sea — and More Hot Dish
She sells schmaltz by the seashore: Cherry Hill, New Jersey deli The Kibitz Room is opening a summer seaside satellite. The restaurant, which makes “everything from scratch, including kishkes,” will offer seating for 50 inside and 30 outside at its new Margate, New Jersey location, where people can enjoy “the best view on the Jersey…
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