Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food Mike Solomonov’s New Venture Shows Israeli Food Is More Than Falafel And Hummus
At K’Far, Mike Solomonov’s newest Philadelphia-based restaurant venture, 2018 James Beard Award winner Camille Cogswell will be making feta-stuffed burekas and other signature Israeli pastries for this all-day restaurant. “We’re going to be showing another facet of Israeli cuisine,” Solomonov told Eater Philadelphia. Instead of the same tired spread of hummus, falafel and schwarma, K’Far,…
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Food Making The Case For Immigration — For Purely Culinary Reasons
Thanks to the creativity of starving peasants bent on pushing the limits of human gastronomy, every culture has a variation on fried chicken, from Jewish-German schnitzel to Japanese chicken karage to Southern fried chicken specials. If you’ve ever been intrigued by how food can have so many cross-cultural similarities, “You and I Eat The Same,”…
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Recipes What To Eat When You’re Recovering From Cancer
In 2018, an estimated 1,735,350 people were diagnosed with cancer, making it one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Chances are someone you know or will know in your lifetime will have cancer. Sarah Grossman and Tamara Green, both experts in cancer-care cooking, are familiar with these statistics. The two holistic nutritionists embarked on…
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Food Kosher Inmates Are Only Getting Sardines In This Brooklyn Jail
As temperatures begin to drop dangerously low, inmates at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center have been going days without heat, warm water, or hot food. One kosher-observing inmate said he had only been given canned sardines to eat. In a story broken by The New York Times, federal defenders said their phones were ringing off the…
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Food Steven Spielberg’s Family Kosher Restaurant ‘The Milky Way’ Is Reopening
When beloved Spielberg family restaurant The Milky Way went dark, in a closure that some thought was final, it was because of the death of restaurateur Leah Spielberg Adler, the five-foot-tall concert pianist, artist, and mother of four who died at 97, after four decades of being at The Milky Way’s helm. But now the…
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Food Questions Not To Ask Your Starbucks Barista About Howard Schulz
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced his presidential aspirations and began making the media rounds, the Internet reacted none-too-positively. The corporate hive at Starbucks headquarters was then forced to update its employee handbook, so all the hapless venti-stirring baristas would know how to respond to those pesky political questions. As the Huffington Post discovered,…
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Food Is The Hummus Bubble About To Burst?
New York has long been fascinated with the mashed chickpea dip, reminiscent of the Middle Eastern table, with all the disagreements about who gets to sit at it. But is this fascination dissipating? Recent hummus-related closures include Dizengoff, celebrity chef Michael Solomonov’s short-lived Chelsea Market venture, Gourmet Food Solutions, the maker of Trader Joe’s and…
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Food ‘MeToo! Hummus’ Is Trying To Change Its Name To Literally Anything Else
Ramona Hazan’s vegan and gluten-free MeToo! hummus hasn’t been flying off the shelves recently, due to an unfortunate coincidence. After all, ‘me too’ tends to remind shoppers of viral hashtags telling horrifying stories of sexual harassment, instead of the catchy brandname it once was fourteen years ago. At first, Hazan thought she could capitalize on…
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