Liza Schoenfein is a former food editor of the Forward and author of the blog Life, Death & Dinner. Follow her on Instagram @LifeDeathDinner.
Liza Schoenfein
By Liza Schoenfein
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Food My Ottolenghi Adventure
Delectible dishes on display at Yotam Ottolenghi’s flagship shop in London. I don’t tend to plan the heck out of vacations, because when we travel as a family we like to pretend we’re natives. We prefer apartments to hotels and we quickly master the public transportation system, if there is one. Having said that, I…
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Food Gifts to Feed Israel’s Hungry
Funny how things happen: Forward Editor-in-Chief Jane Eisner sent me an email last spring, asking if I had any interest in covering an Israeli not-for-profit called , the country’s largest food bank and food-rescue network. She had gotten word that its founder, Joseph Gitler, was in town that week for a series of meetings. Related…
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Recipes How to Make Breads Bakery Hamantaschen at Home
An assortment of Breads Bakery hamantaschen, with the poppy-seed version at the top. And we have the recipe. New York’s is known for its beautiful babka and stunning seed-studded challahs, which are available year round. Its equally exceptional hamantaschen, however, are only available at Purim. Happily, the bakery just shared its coveted recipe with us,…
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Recipes Liza’s Lentil Soup, Italian Style
On a long and very steamy day a couple of summers ago, I shot a series of 10 cooking videos for ehow.com. I didn’t love them (they’re way too long and my hair is awful), but I was thinking about cooking lentil soup this week and remembered that one of the videos shows me making…
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Food Russ & Daughters, Moving on Up
The distance between New York’s Lower East Side and Upper East Side is only a few miles, but the neighborhoods could hardly be more different. My grandfather Ben Schoenfein was born on the Lower East Side in 1899, 15 years before opened its doors at 179 E. Houston Street. The original appetizing shop still stands,…
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Food Heart-Shaped Challah From Hot Bread Kitchen
My food worlds collided this week when I went online to order my weekly haul from , the Israeli-owned CSA (consumer-supported agriculture program)-type thing I subscribe to, and found — among the mostly-local fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and artisanal culinary treats — a gorgeous-looking heart-shaped challah from Hot Bread Kitchen. I contacted the bakery, which…
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Food Carnegie Deli Re-Opens for Business
This morning’s post on the Carnegie Deli’s says it all: “We are over the moon that our doors have officially reopened! We look forward to welcoming back our family of employees, friends and loyal patrons.” The iconic New York delicatessen, which opened in 1937, has been shuttered since late April 2015 after Con Edison discovered…
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Recipes Spicy Coconut-Chickpea Stew
If I ask you think about chickpeas, what’s the first dish that pops into your mind? I bet it’s either hummus or falafel. Am I right? Well, when I think about chickpeas, what I imagine — and immediately crave — is my warming, spicy, savory, coconut-milk-based stew. Related I don’t always make it exactly the…
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