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Letter from Berkeley: A bagel that tastes like home is worth waiting for
March 8, 2021 may be a date that goes down in Jewish history: that was when The New York Times declared “The Best Bagels Are in California.” As evidence writer Tejal Rao singled out Berkeley, California’s Boichik Bagels, which, she wrote, “have the look of Labrador puppies curled up for afternoon naps: soft and pudgy,…
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Michael Solomonov Opens Yet Another Israeli Restaurant, In Philly’s Center City
It’s about 5,740 miles from Sansom Street in Philadelphia to central Tel Aviv. But that distance got a little shorter this week with the opening of Merkaz, the latest celebration of Israeli food from James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov and business partner Steve Cook. “The Savidor Merkaz is Tel Aviv’s transit hub – it’s…
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Kosher-ish Store-Bought Thanksgiving Hacks: A Guide For Procrastinators
The genius who came up with a cooking-intensive holiday in the middle of the week surely did not have working parents in mind. So, let’s just admit that it’s too late to get an early start on Thanksgiving. With only 24 hours to go, it’s time to tear up that ambitious menu, put away the…
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Thanksgiving Then And Now: How Jews Transformed Turkey For Their New World
What can a Jewish cookbook from 1946 tell us about the 21st-century Jewish-American experience? Liza Schoenfein, the Forward’s senior food writer, and Jane Ziegelman, a culinary historian, took our signature collection of Yiddish recipes off the shelf and found a direct line from the balaboostas of yore to the kitchens of today. The Original Crowd-Sourced…
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‘Lekka Burger’, Using 900-Year Old Recipes For Plant-Based Meat, Opens In Tribeca
One’s a philanthropist on a mission. The other’s a veggie-loving star chef. Now, these Jewish women are teaming to open a burger chain whose “plant-powered” menu is designed to outdo animal products. Lekka Burger, which opened its doors in Tribeca last week, is the brainchild of Andrea Kerzner, the South African-born activist and daughter of…
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When It Comes to Turkey, Israelis Beat Americans
In the days before Thanksgiving, as supermarket aisles simmer with eleventh-hour agita and those of us who forgot to pre-order are ready to brawl over the last free-range turkey, it may be hard to imagine that anyone consumes more fowl than Americans. As it turns out, we have a surprising rival in that quarter —…
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Israeli Restaurant In Portland Hit By Anti-Semitic Hacker Campaign
“You have reached the Jewish restaurant. If you bitches want to eat our shitty food, just come here and fuck yourself.” That was the message callers heard this weekend if they dialed Shalom Y’All, a Portland, Oregon restaurant that serves Israeli food. The restaurant’s phone system had been hacked; its phone number was also used…
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How Shabbat And Holiday Meals Can Be Triggering For Jewish Women with Eating Disorders
When No’a, a 29-year-old Jewish woman in recovery from an eating disorder sits at the Shabbat table every week, she already knows what to expect. “Ritual is something that obviously has a huge place in religion, but it’s also very vital for a lot of people with eating disorders,” she says. From kiddush and motzi…
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Now Gingerbread? These Flavored Hummuses Are Getting Out of Hand
Not today, Satan. pic.twitter.com/3BbjGlurpm — Amy Mackinnon? (@ak_mack) November 16, 2019 We’ve tolerated dark-chocolate hummus. We abided – yech – pumpkin-spice flavored hummus. But gingerbread hummus, unleashed on the world this month by a brand called Limited Time Originals, may have pushed us over the edge. “It’s an abomination,” thundered the UK Independent. “It is…
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On The Thanksgiving Menu for “Sababa” Cookbook Author Adeena Sussman: Lots of Pie
Since the publication of her smash hit cookbook “Sababa” this fall, Adeena Sussman has become best known for her wildly popular Israeli-themed recipes like sumac grilled chicken and tahini-glazed carrots. But long-time Sussman fans also know her for an entirely different cuisine: Thanksgiving pie. For the past decade, Sussman and her sister Sharon Wieder of…
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Iconic UES Jewish Bakery Shares Its Recipes, Just in Time For Thanksgiving
When I was a child growing up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, my mother and grandmother shopped at a little Jewish bakery on Madison Avenue called William Greenberg Desserts. I loved the babka and challah, but my favorite thing in the store was a simple butter cookie topped with slivered almonds. (As I wrote in…
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