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Food Hain Celestial Group Acquires Empire Kosher
Hain Celestial Group, a leading distributor of organic foods, has purchased Empire Kosher Poultry, the biggest kosher poultry producer in the United States. Kosher Today reports that Hain already owned 20 percent of Empire’s parent corporation, EK Holdings, so the $57.5 million deal gives Hain the remaining 80 percent. Industry experts report that the acquisition…
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Food Oregon Couple to Brew Kosher Kegs
Theo and Sonia Marie Leikam are opening a community-supported kosher brewery in their Portland backyard. Photograph by Anthony Weiss. (JTA) — For Theo and Sonia Marie Leikam, the dream is nearly complete. Behind the couple’s tidy Victorian house on a tree-lined street in southeast Portland, Oregon, is a pitched-roof building that vaguely resembles a garage…
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Food The Weekly Dish
New York’s new modern Mexican fast-casual place, Oxido. Facebook. What happens when a Mexican chef, a Korean restaurant franchisee, and a Jewish entrepreneur go out to eat? No, it’s not a Borscht Belt setup; the answer’s a snazzy “modern Mexican” restaurant that just opened in Manhattan’s Flatiron district. Oxido is the brainchild of Shmilly Gruenstein,…
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Food Digging Into Jewish Food With Wandering Chew
Katherine Romanow (left) and Sydney Warshaw of Wandering Chew. Photograph by Lauren Kolyn. They’re not trained as chefs. They haven’t cooked in restaurants. But Sydney Warshaw and Katherine Romanow are becoming two of the biggest machers in Montreal’s burgeoning Jewish food scene. As The Wandering Chew, the duo stages pop-up events that “try to teach…
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Food The Weekly Dish
Petite Shell’s kosher rugelach. Photograph by Liz Arronson Rueven/KosherLikeMe.com. …Manhattan’s Petite Shell, whose kosher rugelach have become a bona fide phenomenon among New York foodies, was named one of the city’s best coffee shops by Eater this week. While Eater waxed rhapsodic about Petite Shell’s dulce de leche mini-croissants, the real draw here is what…
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Food Boston’s ‘Beyond Bubbie’s Kitchen’ This Weekend
Tasters at Beyond Bubbie’s Kitchen 2014. Photograph by Zev Fisher. The 6th annual Jewish-food celebration Beyond Bubbie’s Kitchen, presented by New Center NOW, will take place at Boston’s Back Bay Events Center this Sunday, March 1. As in past years, many of the city’s best chefs will come out to put their own modern twists…
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Food The Best ‘Deli Man’ You’ve Never Heard Of
Ben’s Best Deli’s Jay Parker (left) with Erik Greenberg Anjou, director and producer of the film. Photograph courtesy of “Deli Man.” Of all the machers in the new film “Deli Man”, which opens this week, Jay Parker of Ben’s Best stands out. He’s in Rego Park, Queens, for one thing, not the sexy Lower East…
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Food Streit’s Matzo Factory Turning Out Last Batch
The 90-year-old Streit’s Matzo Factory on the Lower East Side will close after Passover. (JTA) — Seated in his Lower East Side office, in front of a large portrait of company patriarch Aron Streit, Alan Adler avoids becoming too nostalgic. “It’s like I tell my family members: None of you own a car from 1935,…
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