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 Michael Solomonov Bringing Israeli Cuisine to New York’s Chelsea Market
I’ve been fantasizing about the idea of planning a weekend trip to Philadelphia. Forget the Liberty Bell — my dream is to eat every meal at a different . (CookNSolo is the group of Michael Solomonov/Steven Cook joints that includes Zahav, Abe Fisher, Dizengoff, Percy Street Barbecue and Federal Donuts.) That would be some weekend….
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Food YidLife Crisis Takes a Bite Out of the Big Apple
YidLife Crisis’ Jamie Elman (second from left) and Eli Batalion (second from right), flanked by a couple of unidentified hassidim. food festival, I had a lightening-fast confab with Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman, the duo behind the Yiddish-language sitcom YidLife Crisis. They were rushing around in the heat, shadowed by a cameraman, talking fast and…
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Food To Tip or Not — Thoughts on Danny Meyer’s New Policy
Danny Meyer, chief executive officer of the Union Square Hospitality Group, has announced plans to eliminate tipping at his restaurants. The first word that pops into my head when I think about Danny Meyer restaurants (Union Square Café, Gramercy Tavern, Maialino and the Modern, to name a few) is “hospitality.” Meyer’s 13 New York City…
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Food ‘Eating Delancey’ — and Enjoying Every Morsel
— what a super name for a book. I’ve had this relatively new volume by Aaron Rezny and Jordan Schaps on my desk for a little while now, and I keep dipping back into it because it’s so rich in delicious tidbits about the Jewish foodways of New York’s Lower East Side. It’s kind of…
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Food Hip Holiday Brisket, Japanese Style
Ivan Orkin’s dashi-braised brisket is served with a Tokyo-style teriyaki sauce, scallions and an apple-ginger-honey chutney. My friend Ivan Orkin is a culinary alchemist; a cultural mishmash artist in the kitchen; a man with one foot planted firmly in New York’s hip downtown food scene and another, as firmly, in Tokyo. (If you’ve read our…
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Food Have I Got a Poppy Seed Bagel for You, Barack!
Turns out there’s hope for the president’s bagel predicament. When Forward Editor-in-Chief Jane Eisner what type of bagel he liked best, he waxed nostalgic over the poppy-with-a-schmear he used to pick up at the original H&H Bagels on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He expressed shock that the iconic establishment had bitten the dust — it…
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Food Hunger, You’ve Been Chopped!
Forward food editor Liza Schoenfein just fulfilled her dream of becoming a judge on Chopped — or in this case, Chop-Hunger, a competition that served as a benefit for Masbia, a kosher soup kitchen that delivers nutritious kosher meals with a hearty side of dignity. (That’s her, lower right.) I never get tired of the…
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Recipes 2 Easy Recipes To Keep You Cool As A Cuke
Fresh kirby cukes from the farmers’ market are the foundation of an excellent — and very easy — cold cucumber soup (left) and a sweet-and-sour salad from Carol Ungar’s cookbook, “Jewish Soul Food.” There’s nothing like a just-picked summer cucumber from the farmers’ market — or the garden, if you happen to be so lucky….
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