Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food Oliver Zabar Expands His Father’s Empire
The name Zabar looms over the New York food world, cornering the market on food markets, bakeries and wine shops. Eighty years and three generations of Zabars later, Zabar’s is still a family business. But Oliver Zabar, the son of patriarch Eli Zabar, is seeking to spread his own wings. The New York Times revealed…
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Food Animal Crackers Are Freed From Cages — But Don’t Forget The Jewish Immigrant Artist Behind The Original Art
After 116 years, Nabisco is letting its animals roam free…on its animal cracker boxes. After facing pressure from the permanently disgruntled PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Mondelez International, Nabisco’s parent company, relented and decided to redesign the box. In the process, they dismissed the Jewish-American immigrant packaging art of one Sydney…
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Food Kosher Empire Chicken Linked To Salmonella Outbreak
The USDA released a safety alert regarding raw chicken products produced and sold from September 2017 to June 2018. Empire Kosher chicken may be guilty of causing a possible salmonella contamination. 17 people in four states have contracted salmonella-related illnesses from kosher chicken and one person has died, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control….
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Food Taim Has Come To FiDi — And The Forward Staff Is Thrilled
Einat Admony’s fast-casual kosher Taim (tagline: “It’s a vegetarian mecca”) has made good on its promise to get New Yorkers feasting on chickpeas and pitas with the opening of its newest Financial District location, which happens to be dangerously close to the Forward’s own offices. Taim is a Hebrew word meaning tasty or delicious. After…
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Food “Anne & Frank” Amsterdam Bakery Changes Its Name After Sparking Outcry
The unfortunately named and recently opened “Anne & Frank” Bakery has elected to change its name after an outcry on Twitter deemed it insensitive. The bakery is located around the corner from the Anne Frank House, which has become a popular tourist attraction. The media backlash was immediate, as Twitter lambasted owner Robert Barsoum for…
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Food The Kosher Dinner Club Without A Menu
At The Musket Club, the new kosher gourmet dinner club that operates on word-of-mouth, the menu only comes at the end of the meal. The chefs want the food to be a surprise, and it often is. The food is a cornucopia of different tastes and flavors, and if you follow the three musketeers behind…
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Food North America’s First Kosher Dining Hall Will Be In A New Jersey Mall
A monstrosity is being built in New Jersey, as you read this. In fact, you can watch the monstrosity being built on your computer, because it is live-streaming its construction on this site. And inside that monstrosity will be the only kosher food hall in any mall in the world outside of Israel. For sixteen…
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Food The $23 Caviar-Topped Bagel At Freedman’s
Jewish food is tricky. On the one hand, anyone determined to cook some Jewish deli delights has to bear in the mind the importance of tradition and the significance of the decades-old food they are cooking. But on the other hand, traditions are made to be broken. On the menu at Freedman’s, the new non-traditional…
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