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Food MeToo Killed The Most Profitable Restaurant Partnership In NYC
Together they ruled the culinary scene in Manhattan. After fourteen years of Chef April Bloomfield and restaurateur Ken Friedman being the hottest partnership in the New York restaurant world, Bloomfield recently announced that she was dissolving her business relationship with Friedman, after a New York Times report accused Friedman of sexual harassment. Bloomfield scored The…
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The Schmooze 5 Ways We’ll Remember Our Friend Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain died Friday morning at 61. He was one of the world’s best known chefs, a monster presence in the culinary world who built a cult of personality by approaching food and eating with sensuous gusto. He was defined by the sharpness of his intellect and the insatiability of his curiosity. More than anything,…
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Recipes Vegan Chocolate Brownies — Made Out Of Black Beans
Yield: 12 brownies Ingredients 2 (15-ounce) cans black beans, rinsed and dried well 4 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder 1 cup rolled oats 1 tsp. Kosher salt 3⁄4 cup agave syrup 1⁄2 cup coconut oil, melted 4 tsp. vanilla extract 1 tsp. baking powder 1/8 cup chocolate chips, optional Directions Preheat the oven to 350oF. Grease…
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Food There’s A Kosher Cheese Pop-Up In SoHo Now
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those that like cheese and those that should barely be classified as human, because they don’t like cheese. If you’re a food adventurer, tantalized by the notion of chasing cheese to the far ends of the SoHo area, aroused by the concept of a fresh pecorino…
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Food Get Ready For The $16.50 Bagel, New York
If you’ve never heard of Eleven Madison Park, all you need to know is that it’s a Michelin starred, multiple award-winning super expensive restaurant. And now its own Daniel Humm is getting in the bagel game, as Eaterrevealed. Black Seed (a New York artisanal bagel bakery) continues its monthly bagel partnership series, and this time…
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Food Israeli Company Develops Chocolate for Diabetics
Israeli startup A1C Foods Ltd. develops chocolate and ice cream that the company says does not impact blood sugar levels. Instead of substituting real sugar with artificial sweeteners, a spokeswoman for A1C told Calcalist the company’s treats are made with traditional ingredients like flour and sugar, with the addition of a patent-pending “formulation” that lowers…
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Food NYC Health Department Shuts Down ‘Fine & Shapiro’ Deli For Violating Health Codes
At 138 West 72nd St, in the Jewish enclave of the Upper West Side, kosher restaurant Fine & Shapiro, open since 1927 as one of the city’s oldest kosher delis, was closed by New York City’s Department of Health. Here are some of the health codes it violated, as per the West Side Rag: 1)…
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Food Jewish Gala Food Is Terrible. This Israeli Chef Is Trying To Change That.
A gala used to be an occasion where you would put on your most uncomfortable shoes, totter over to the refurbished lunchroom of your child’s school and sit at a table with ten other people you hated while waiters glumly brought you dishes of overcooked salmon with lethargic sprigs of thyme perched indelicately on top….
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