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Food Welcome to the Donut Car Wash
Wash ‘n’ Nosh* from the* Jewish Daily Forward *on *Vimeo. An Israeli-owned car wash on the West Side Highway has become the unlikely source of what may be New York’s most delicious donuts. No, the guys scrubbing cars aren’t baking in their spare time; former chef Scott Levine, whose resume includes bygone New York foodie…
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Food The Weekly Dish
Breads Bakery, whose hamantaschen are pictured above, will operate three food concessions at the Armory Show, which falls on Purim this year. Photograph courtesy of Breads Bakery. 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. A very serious…
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Food Taste Testing ‘The Covenant Kitchen’
A new cookbook offers everyday recipes and modern twists on Jewish classics, with wine pairings. This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking what they think of the results. For Purim, she cooked her way through “The Covenant…
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Food Kosher Vegan Food Truck Rolls to a Stop
Cinnamon Snail food truck in happier times. Facebook Vegans and omnivores alike are in mourning. Cinnamon Snail, the popular kosher, vegan food truck, will no longer roam the streets of New York City. For five years, the truck, which Yelp named the 4th best eatery in America in 2014, has served up creative, gourmet vegan…
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Food Hot Brooklyn Appetizing Shop Now Offering Deli
The popular smoked-fish store just added Jewish classics such as smoked meats, kasha varnishkes and kugel. Photograph courtesy of Shelsky’s. Fans of Shelsky’s, the always-mobbed Brooklyn smoked-fish emporium, are getting even more to fress. Starting today, the white-tiled appetizing shop will expand its menu to include classic deli sandwiches, Ashkenazi side dishes and meats by…
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Food At Bar Tartine, Jewish Food Is Part of the Mix
Family influences abound in the kitchen and the cookbook. At San Francisco’s Bar Tartine, the chef’s Lithuanian Jewish grandmother shows up regularly in the kitchen — or rather, her spirit does. “Family influences are our strongest inspiration,” Cortney Burns writes with co-author and co-chef Nicolaus Balla in their intro to “Bar Tartine: Techniques & Recipes.”…
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Food The Weekly Dish
Chef Alex Resnik is heading home to Queens to open a kosher restaurant. Photograph: Facebook. 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. Los Angeles-based kosher-cuisine wizard and Top Chef survivor [Alex Reznik][2] is returning to his hometown…
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Food Toronto Foodies Flock to Veggie ‘Butcher Shop’
Michael Abramson presents Yam Chops’ carrot “lox”. Photographs courtesy of Yam Chops. That luscious lox is made of carrots. Silky cream cheese comes from cashews. And the crispy bacon? Maple-marinated coconut. Welcome to Yam Chops, the herbivore paradise that bills itself as Canada’s first “vegetarian butcher.” “We’re about non-meat meat that tastes great, with great…
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