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Stunning Seaside Lunch — Tel Aviv, Day 3
Yesterday I told Teddy that today would be his day (actually it’s Adeena’s wedding day, so technically I suppose it’s hers). I asked how he wanted to spend it, and his emphatic choice was the beach. I’d heard about a gorgeous restaurant on the beach called Manta Ray, so I decided we’d have lunch and…
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Meet The Wannabe Pastrami King of Tuscany
Gianluca Tonelli, the putative pastrami king of Tuscany, has the blues. Despite his passion, despite the klezmer blaring from his food truck, and despite the adorable porkpie hat on his head, he can’t seem to get his fellow Italians to eat the meat. As the New York Times reported, even as other street foods have…
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Beer For Breakfast At Levinsky Market — Tel Aviv, Day 2
This whole trip is basically a food lover’s paradise, but this morning’s adventure was a highlight. We began the day with a tour of Levinsky Market, a glorious strip of food stalls, guided by Gil Hovav, the wildly knowledgeable and entertaining Israeli food writer and TV host, who is a friend of the bride. (He…
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What Baking Challah Teaches Us About Life
Once a month, I teach a class in baking challah. There are no machines involved. The (adult) students and I gather the ingredients, proof the yeast, mix in the flour and sugar, eggs and honey, salt and oil. Month in month out, we work off of the same recipe and turn and twist, punch and…
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Delicious Dispatch From Tel Aviv — Day 1
Yesterday I arrived in Tel Aviv for a long-anticipated vacation that’s centered around a dear friend’s wedding. This morning, I couldn’t think of a better way to kick off the day than to belly up to the bar of an open-air eatery in the Carmel Market called Shuk Shuka. At the restaurant, a few minutes…
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Why Are There No Kosher Russian Restaurants In New York?
I recently stood in line with more than a thousand Russian Jews, waiting for sushi — the highlight of Saturday night’s dinner at the Limmud FSU conference, which is the largest gathering of Russian-speaking Jews in North America. It was kosher sushi, of course. The other meals at the event, held at a Hilton Hotel…
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At Swank Chelsea Eatery, Haimish Is Hip And Family Is First
A kibbutz with delicious food in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood? Well, kind of. “We call it the kibbutz,” said Brett Nidel, of the building on the corner of 18th Street and Seventh Avenue, where he lives and works. Nidel and his brother Sam, along with partners Matt Mogil and Tamara McCarthy (who is married to…
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Gourmet Kosher Restaurant Set To Open At Tulane
Kosher-keeping freshmen heading to Tulane this fall will finally have an easy time gaining the freshman fifteen like their fellow (non-kosher-keeping) classmates: gourmet kosher food will be available at the university’s Hillel house. This August, a restaurant called Rimon –– which is hebrew for pomegranate –– will open at 912 Broadway Street. The chef, Daniel…
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Which Ice Cream Brand Is Big, Gay — And Defiantly Kosher?
Kosher ice cream lovers have a lot to celebrate this Pride month, specifically in the form of a pint of Big Gay Ice Cream. That’s because when the ice cream truck-turned-brick-and-mortar shop decided to package its popular soft serve to be sold nationally, it sought and received kosher certification. The pints of soft-serve deliciousness, which…
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The Ultimate Jewish Summer Soup — And Why You Need To Try It
Lightly creamy and green, schav (pronounced shahv) is a chilly soup that will be instantly loved by some and perhaps only gradually embraced by others. Based on the long, slender spinachlike herb-vegetable we know as sour grass or sorrel, it is thickened with beaten egg yolk, its tingling sour edge mellowed by a few exquisitely…
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7 Ways Lox Is Going Luxe At The Hippest Restaurants
Lox on a bagel with a schmear? So last century. Smoked salmon isn’t just for brunch anymore, and it’s surfacing in some very fishy experiments at hip eateries. As the nouveau-deli craze continues, we’re finding lox paired with pizza, fries and — yes — even ice cream: Lox fries at Rider, Brooklyn Here’s what might…
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