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Food New Bushwick Coffee Shop Owners 86 the Anti-Semitism
Back in October, , whose owner had just posted an anti-Semitic rant on social media. The café has since closed, and in its place co-owners and native New Yorkers Pierre Gutierrez and Emma-Jean Taylor have opened Stateside Bushwick, a coffee shop just as charming as they are. Even in its very beginning stages (it opened…
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Food The Sweetest Spot on the Lower East Side
A film by Thea Glassman about Economy Candy, a 70-year-old wonderland with the distinction of being the oldest Jewish family-owned business on the Lower East Side. Mitchell Cohen stands behind a counter teaming with coconut macaroons, wedges of fruit slices and chocolate-covered grahams — milk, dark and dark with jelly. Nearby his father, Jerry Cohen,…
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Food Carnegie Deli Shut Down Over Illegal Gas Line
For once, you won’t have to deal with long lines at today. But that’s because the Midtown sandwich-and-schmooze institution has been closed by Con Edison, New York’s power company. Con Ed contends the Carnegie used “a Y-shaped piece of plumbing” to misappropriate natural gas for six years until it was abruptly shut down on Friday,…
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Food New East Village Mexican and All the Weekly Dish
Pulpo a la Vera Cruzana, as shown in a “Coming Soon” notice on Rosie’s Twitter feed. A Jewish guy, an Irish girl and their new Mexican “baby”: Marc Meyer and Vicki Freeman, the pair behind Big Apple favorites , Cookshop, and Hundred Acres, just opened Rosie’s in the East Village, which bills itself as an…
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Food Are New York’s Classic Jewish Food Spots a Dying Breed? Discuss.
Tuesday night I found myself noshing on a piece of rye bread with cream cheese and thinly sliced smoked salmon from Russ & Daughters while gazing up at four giants of New York’s Jewish food world. I was at at the 92nd Street Y, where the all-star panel consisted of Mark Federman of Russ &…
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Food Food Truck Serves Up Shakshuka — and Middle East Peace?
The Shuka Team (the three 20-something Israeli pals in baseball caps) says that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (center foreground) just experienced his first taste of shakshuka — and loved every bite. “The Shuka Truck will bring the PEACE to the middle EAST,” according to a , three Israeli friends who rolled out their food truck…
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Food A Whole Lotta Deli and All the Weekly Dish
A Pancer’s Pastrami on Rye. Photo courtesy of Pancer’s Original Here’s everything you need to know about restaurant openings and closings, chefs on the move and tasty events happening in the world of Jewish food. ….“The new owners couldn’t cut a sandwich for love or money. The last sandwich I bought here before today was…
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Food Foodie Schmooze Fest at 92nd Street Y
The talk will include a slideshow of images, including this one, from Aaron Rezny’s book “Eating Delancey.” Image courtesy of 92nd Street Y For New Yorkers, the Lower East Side has long been the go-to neighborhood for classic Jewish food. In recent years, though, the area has lost some of its kosher cred, with the…
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