Lucy Cohen Blatter
By Lucy Cohen Blatter
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Food Kitchen Talk: Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman
There is no shortage of home cooking blogs out there. But Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen, a relate-ably personal, yet eloquent blog, is one of the lucky few to have gained a large and loyal following. In fact, it’s her blog’s popularity — she has about 4 million unique visitors a month — that led Perelman…
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Food Superbowl XLV: Hometown Dishes Face Off
If you think about it, Super Bowl Sunday is a lot like a Jewish holiday — it’s all about the food. In an homage to the two teams playing in the big game — the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers — we asked three Jewish chefs and a Pittsburgh deli owner to reimagine the…
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The Schmooze Hebrew Is Guy Ritchie’s Secret Language of Love
Hebrew seems to be the language of love for Guy Ritchie and girlfriend Jacqui Ainsley. According to Hello magazine, the ex-Mr. Madonna and Ainsley speak to each other in Hebrew when they are out in public and want to keep their conversation private. Ritchie is already fluent in Hebrew (at least he got something out…
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The Schmooze Jesse James Heads to Israel, Sans Nazi Garb
Jesse James is one mixed-up guy. Just days after photos emerged of him smiling as a passenger in his car gives a [Nazi salute] (https://forward-hcl50.orc.scoolaid.net/the-assimilator/135003/), news broke that Sandra Bullock’s philandering ex-husband recently visited Israel. James — who was previously snapped wearing a nazi cap and giving a “Sieg Heil” salute — visited the Jewish…
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Food Meals To Go With Your Guinness — Jewish Food in Dublin
Ireland is a country that’s revered more for its drinks than it’s food. And for strictly kosher visitors, a trip to the capital city of Dublin may very well require living on Guinness and Jameson alone. But for avid Jewish travelers, who are a bit more flexible with their taste buds, there are several options,…
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Food Q&A: Top Chef Nikki Cascone on Global Jewish Cuisine and Her New Restaurant
Raised by an Italian father and Jewish mother, chef Nikki Cascone was encouraged to embrace both of her backgrounds. But it was during a trip to the Jewish ghettos in Italy that she became determined to meld the two in her kitchen. In December, she opened Octavia’s Porch, a restaurant serving global Jewish cuisine, with…
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The Schmooze Fox Blooper: Elie Wiesel Dubbed ‘Holocaust Winner’
Talk about a bad typo. On a recent episode of “Fox & Friends,” Elie Wiesel was described as a “Holocaust Winner.” Sure, the ticker label was just a mixed-up combination of “Nobel prize winner” and “Holocaust survivor,” but considering Wiesel was on the show to talk about human rights abuses, it was a pretty unfortunate…
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News Stars on the Bimah
Mazel Tov: Celebrities’ Bar and Bat Mitzvah Memories By Jill Rappaport Photographs by Linda Solomon Simon & Schuster, 176 pages, $25. Most American Jews have at least one good bar mitzvah story to tell… even celebrities. Actor Harvey Fierstein’s drama queen grandmother faked a heart attack during his ceremony (he kept on singing the Hebrew…
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