Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Nobu Adilman Chats ‘Jewpanese’ Food and Toronto Delis
He’s a pizza-loving “Jewpanese” — his word — whose hit Cooking Channel show unleashed homemade “wacky food contraptions” on an unsuspecting Canada. Now, Nobu Adilman’s bringing his brand of brainy mischief to Eater Toronto as the site’s new editor. Adilman’s best known up north as a creator of “Food Jammers”, in which he and two…
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Life Jewish Suitmaker Wins Accidental Gay Following
Three years ago, Toronto-born Daniel Friedman was a newly minted architect whose livelihood evaporated when the economy crashed. Today, hundreds of people are living in Friedman’s designs — but sewing machines and measuring tapes are his work tools. With business partner David Kusy, Friedman runs Bindle and Keep, a New York-based bespoke mens- and womenswear…
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Opinion Alan Webber Wants To Be Governor of New Mexico
In 1996, Alan Webber launched Fast Company magazine as a hybrid of “Rolling Stone and The Wall Street Journal.” The same energy hovers around his recently announced run for Governor of New Mexico. A Tweet kicked off the campaign; a few days later, Webber confirmed the run with a simple “Yeah” in a Santa Fe…
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Food Caplansky’s Smoked Meat at 30,000 Feet
How will smoked meat taste at 30,000 feet? Itinerant fressers at Toronto Pearson International Airport will soon find out. Caplansky’s, the wildly successful deli empire founded by Canuck cured-beef maven Zane Caplansky, has unveiled plans for two concessions inside Pearson, Canada’s busiest air-travel hub. Caplansky, who’s gone from one-man pop-up to culinary celebrity, will open…
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The Schmooze Why a Finnish Band Called Themselves ‘Talmud Beach’
British pop-culture monthly Uncut excited music fans this month with its review of what may be the world’s first Finnish-Jewish blues trio. Trouble was, the magazine got it wrong. Talmud Beach may have a Jewish name, but none of its players are members of the tribe. The band’s moniker, though, bears a Semitic connection. Bearded,…
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The Schmooze Israeli Apocalypse Rock Breaks Big Stateside
The fuzzy guitars, pulsating bass,and incomprehensible lyrics intrigued me. So I looked up the song that was streaming on KEXP, the Seattle indie-rock station I broadcast at home. The band’s name seemed Finnish or Icelandic, until I realized the words were actually phonetic Hebrew. Vaadat Chirigim, it turns out, is that rarest of musical animals…
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Opinion As One Jewish Retail Empire Falls, Another Rises
Two retail empires with Jewish roots collided in New York this week — one on its deathbed, the other ready to take its place. Loehmann’s, the fashion discounter founded in 1921 by an enterprising department-store buyer named Frieda Loehmann, announced this week it will shut down its remaining 39 stores after its third bankruptcy filing….
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Food Last BBQ of the ‘Goyish Year’
Ari White thought it was time to “show Brooklyn some love”. And he did it on Sunday and Monday — with 2,500 pounds of meat. White’s the pit boss of Bronx-based Hakadosh BBQ, whose “Wandering Que” brings kosher Texas smokehouse pop-ups to street fairs across New York City. But White’s custom-built “BBQ rig” had never…
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