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 The Year We Tasted Israel
Chef Michael Solomonov checks out meat grilling on skewers at Al Jenin restaurant in Nazareth. Until recently America looked down its nose at British cuisine, but now it seems that major food winds are blowing west from London. Remember the nose-to-tail movement, which started at London’s St. John at the turn of the last millennium…
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Food Perfect Chopped Salad From Honey & Co.
Husband-and-wife team Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer were both born in Israel, where they met in a restaurant kitchen. Together they moved to London and opened Honey & Co., a restaurant that highlights the foods of their homeland. In a talk for the British Jewish organization , they spoke about their culinary journey, while showing…
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Food Masbia Seeks New Home for Kosher Soup Kitchen
Yes, Masbia is looking for a new space in Queens. But first, how about more plates and napkins? , the New York organization that feeds the needy in a dignified, restaurant-like setting, may soon be displaced from at least one of its three locations. “We will most probably stop operating our Rego Park location at…
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Food It’s Sufganiyot Season
Breads’ filled doughnuts are hitting the bakery’s shelves today. Of the many fun aspects of Hanukkah, our favorite may be that it’s practically a cultural obligation to eat the Israeli-style filled doughnuts called sufganiyot. In New York City, you can pick them up at starting Tuesday, December 1. Filled with strawberry jam, dulce de leche,…
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Food Eating, Drinking + Thinking Together, and You’re Invited
We’ll all be there. What about you? Sandwiched between two deliciously food-focused holidays, Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, the Forward is throwing a food-centric celebration of its own. On Thursday, December 3, at a cool downtown venue called , we’re hosting an evening of food, drink, comedy and conversation that’s aptly being called Eat, Drink + Think….
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Food Classic Meets Modern at Kosherfest 2015
Nibbling my way through the Meadowlands Exposition Center yesterday in Secaucus, New Jersey, for the first day of , I tried to glean the prevailing themes from the ocean of kosher products on display. Nothing obvious emerged. What I found was the continued momentum of the movement I recognized at last year’s show toward more…
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Food Mark Bittman Brings Vegan Meal Kits to Masses
During the question-and-answer period following his , Mark Bittman was coy when an audience member asked for details about why he’d left the New York Times. (In his farewell column, Bittman wrote that he was going “to do what I’ve been writing about these many years: to make it easier for people to eat more…
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Food Mark Bittman at JCC
I’m heading to the this evening for what sounds like a pretty fab event — it’s the season launch of Person Place Thing, a series hosted by former New York Times Ethicist Randy Cohen that’s described as “an interview show in which one amazing guest tells three insightful and often hilarious stories.” Tonight’s amazing guest…
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