Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Endangered Yiddish Sign Is Saved
It looks like Toronto’s now-famous Yiddish window sign will survive after all. As on Friday, the last vestige of Yiddish in the Kensington Market neighborhood was papered over by a new tenant. Furious neighbors, who thought workers had scraped the letters off the storefront window, relentlessly pursued the owners of the bubble-tea shop set to…
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Food Stoner Breakfast and All the Week’s Hottest Dish
Best Restaurant Name of the Week Blintz and a Bong — “home of the all-day stoner breakfast special” — will open in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighborhood this month. Jewish Leftovers in South Beach Joe’s Stone Crab is one of the spots on a new walking tour of South Beach’s Jewish (if decidedly unkosher) restaurants. Long…
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Food Peanuts, Crackerjack and Sushi — Finding America’s Best Ballpark Food
Former librarian Bennett Jacobstein has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballpark food. Bennett Jacobstein has a ballpark idea of where you can find great stadium food. In fact, he wrote the book on it. Inspired by Jacobstein’s post-retirement gig working concession stands at San Jose, California’s Municipal Stadium, surveys culinary offerings at all 30 major-league ballparks,…
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Food Shutting a Window on Toronto’s Yiddish Past?
When an Italian eatery took over the old Mandel’s storefront, it kept the painted Yiddish sign in its window — but a new owner threatens to destroy it. It is, literally, one of the last windows into Toronto’s Yiddish past. It has survived waves of construction, immigration and gentrification. Now, it may disappear. Led by…
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Food Izzy’s Finally Opens for Kosher Barbecue
The sign going up at Izzy’s Brooklyn Smokehouse way back in January. He could have grown his own cow in the time it took to open, but Sruly Eidelman has finally cut the ribbon on , Brooklyn’s first stand-alone kosher barbecue joint. Back in October, the Forward reported that the restaurant — then called Izzy’s…
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Food Soup Nazi’s New Gig and All the Week’s Hot Dish
‘No soup for you!’ Watch Seinfeld’s best Soup Nazi moments here, then check out actor Larry Thomas’s latest work — a TV ad shot in Israel. The Soup Nazi’s big in Israel. Actor Larry Thomas, who portrayed the vicious ladler on Seinfeld, is starring in a commercial in the Holy Land. Watch “This Falafel is…
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Food Katz’s Deli Wins Top Dog
The venerable Lower East Side deli proves it’s about more than just pastrami, with its hot dog being voted No. 1 in the U.S. As if we needed another excuse to run to on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the legendary eatery just won the top spot in The Daily Meal’s ranking of America’s…
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Food Cake Pops in D.C. and All the Week’s Hot Dish
Washington’s cake (pop) boss made these. Here’s one to watch: Haley Raphael is the 23-year-old founder of , which specializes in push-up cake pops inspired by classic ice-cream pops. Washington Jewish Week reports she’s already receiving franchise requests from around the world; at the moment, she’s a very busy one-woman show out of an incubator…
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