Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Former Breads Bakery Chef Is Opening A Rival Bakery In The Lower East Side
A new Lower East Side bakery might give beloved Breads — winner of multiple Forward Food Choice Awards — a run for its money. That’s because Michaeli Bakery, which opened this month on Division Street near Chinatown, is the baby of Adir Michaeli, Breads’ longtime executive pastry chef. Before moving to New York City in…
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The Schmooze As Dressbarn Stores Close Nationwide — The End Of A Jewish Family Empire
The retail landscape suffered another blow this week when the parent of low-priced women’s clothier Dressbarn announced that all 650 its stores would shutter within months. But news reports have overlooked the chain’s very Jewish origin story — and the fact that anti-Semitism may have indirectly played a role in its 1962 launch. In the…
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Food A Harlem Shabbat Dinner Is Attracting Celeb Chefs
The invitation from New York’s Jewish Food Society intrigued me: Why would superstar chef Marcus Samuelsson cook Shabbat dinner at a small JCC alongside Travel Channel food savant Andrew Zimmern and other notables? Turns out there’s an elaborate backstory to the sold-out May 17 feast at the Harlem JCC. And the macher behind it might…
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The Schmooze Multi-Millionaire and Argentinean Hotelier Alan Faena Opens Up About His Rabbinic Heritage
He only wears white, makes gnomic pronouncements, and builds “universes”. Alan Faena, whose pioneering hotel projects in Buenos Aires and Miami Beach reinvented hospitality in those cities, makes a very unconventional developer. And in a lavishly illustrated new memoir, the Argentine iconoclast offers a rare look behind the curtain of a blazingly glamorous life —…
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Food This Chef Is Making Artisanal Bread With Kasha Varnishkes
Remember the old commercials where peanut butter and chocolate collided into a spectacular combo that made both parts seem even tastier? A New York chef has done that. With bread. And kasha varnishkes. And schmaltz and onions. And if there’s a more decadent way to break Passover this year, we dare you to find it….
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Food This New Jersey Deli Is Making Sandwiches Using Pickles Instead Of Bread – Just In Time For Passover
Who says you can’t chow down on sandwiches on Passover? A New Jersey deli is spicing up social media with its towering, meat-filled sandwiches….on pickles instead of bread. Elsie’s, in Haddon Township, calls itself “the home of the original pickle sandwich”; any item on its menu can get ordered on two brined cucumbers instead of…
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Food Asian, Vegan, Or Keto: Seder Menus Are Leaning Trendy
Is your seder leaning Asian, vegan, or keto this year? A new report says you’re not alone. Experiments are trumping tradition at many Passover tables, according to Tastewise, a Tel Aviv startup that analyzes social-media posts for “food intelligence” and trend data. Among the findings in Tastewise’s Easter and Passover Food Trends Report: Instead of…
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Food Lucky Lee’s, Promising ‘Clean’ Chinese Food, Is At Center Of ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Firestorm
View this post on Instagram Coming soon. Wok in/take out/order to-your-couch gluten-free lo mein, sesame orange shrimp and stir-fried sizzling shrooms with veggies. No need for sauce on the side! #getexcited #luckyleesnyc A post shared by Lucky Lee’s (@luckyleesnyc) on Jan 2, 2019 at 7:10pm PST A Jewish celebrity nutritionist — and her so-called “clean”…
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