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Fast Forward Texas Jewish Food Truck Vandalized In Alleged Hate Crime
(JTA) — A crowdfunding campaign has raised more than $12,000 to help the owner of a Texas food truck that serves kosher-style food after it was vandalized in an anti-Semitic attack. Scotty Grossbard opened his Jew Hungry? food truck in Austin, Texas eight months ago. It serves traditional Jewish foods, including matzo ball soup, latkes…
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Food Soupergirl Didn’t Win Shark Tank, But She’s Okay
“Our world is in trouble and I want to be part of the solution,” says Sara Polon, the co-founder of Soupergirl, a company that specializes in fresh, eco-friendly soups. “This company is part of that. And I can’t compromise on that.” In October, the founders of Soupergirl appeared on reality show Shark Tank to pitch…
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Food Disney World Is Now Serving Matzo Ball Soup
Well, well, well. If the rumors are true, then the anti-Semitic man who gave his name to the Disney company wouldn’t be too pleased to hear that the folks at Epcot, after years of delay, have finally offered up some Jewish food in the form of a “L’Chaim! Holiday Kitchen booth” for the 2018 Epcot…
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Food Pittsburgh Shooting Does Not Stop Jews From Coming Together For Shalom Y’all Food Festival
Congregation Mickve Israel, located in Savannah, Georgia, was preparing for its annual Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival when they heard about the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. As the third oldest Jewish Congregation in America, recently celebrating its 285th birthday, Mickve Israel requires a high level of security, and for the last three years, they’ve had…
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Food Joan Nathan’s Weed-Infused Lemon Roast Chicken
Yield: 4 servings THC: 5.7 mg per serving; 22.8 mg total recipe Joan Nathan is basically the grand dame of Jewish home cooking. Even though she had never even seen weed in her life before coming on Bong Appétit, she was completely down to experiment. The result? This ultra-lemony roast chicken that uses both fresh…
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Food For Jewish Environmentalists, The Answer To Sustainability Lies In…Goat Meat
In the wake of a terrifying UN climate report, which announced that mankind has twelve years to wean itself off its fossil fuel guzzling, steak swilling, energy-overusing ways, people are looking about for any way to save our thoroughly rattled planet. One solution? Goat meat. While attaining kosher goat meat might prove to be a…
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Food Meet Chef Rossi – One Of The First Chefs To Cater Same-Sex Weddings
Lots of people have just one name. Madonna. Cher. Rossi. Rossi wears many hats, from lesbian to chef to Jewess to anti-microwave activist. Chef Rossi’s story, which is currently being turned into a play based on her 2015 memoir, both called The Raging Skillet, is one that begins with a rebellion against Orthodox parents and…
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Food ‘Eatwith’: The Airbnb For Dining While Traveling
When people travel, they often do it in a bubble of airport-hotel-well reviewed restaurant-hotel-airport. Travelers visit foreign countries without talking or eating with any of the locals there. One app, Eatwith, is looking to change that. Offering 5,000 in-home culinary experiences in 130 countries all over the world, with some 20,000 hosts and 150,000 guests,…
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