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Food 12 Steps To Better Camp Food
As summer approaches, many of us wax nostalgic about the years we spent at summer camp. But when someone utters the words “camp food,” it does not usually evoke pleasant memories. For camp veterans, those two words bring back disturbing recollections of rubbery cold cuts, stale bread and the infamous neon-colored “bug juice.” When my…
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Food Katz’s Deli Opens In Brooklyn — Or Does It?
“It’s not Katz’s; you can’t recreate it — and I’m not going to try.” That’s Jake Dell, the owner of Katz’s, the deli icon that’s been slicing pastrami on the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1888. But Dell is standing near a glowing red and white sign that, in the deli’s signature font, spells…
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News This Week In Chicago: Hunger, From Feeding The Poor To Feeding Yourself
There are three Jewish responses to hunger. You can eat. You can feel guilty about what you ate, or what you don’t want to eat, or about people who don’t get to eat. Or you can do something about making sure everyone else can eat, too. Response one: If you feel like celebrating summer, you…
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Food Honor Thy Father And Spend Father’s Day At Taste Of Jewish Culture Festival
Father’s Day this year just got a little tastier. This Sunday, June 18, the Workmen’s Circle, a stalwart purveyor of progressive Jewish culture, is hosting the Fourth Annual Taste of Jewish Culture Street Festival, which will feature 30 vendors including Mile End, Kossar’s Bagels and Bialys, Breads Bakery and Destination Dumplings. The theme for the…
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Food 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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Food 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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Food Muslim-Owned Jewish Deli To Host Muslim-Jewish Fundraising Dinner
There is a Jewish Deli in Brooklyn that closes for Ramadan. The reason is simple, if somewhat surprising: The owner of David’s Brisket House and Deli on Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant is Riyadh Gazali, a Muslim of Yemini descent. Next week, Gazali will host a dinner party at David’s along with Breaking Bread NYC, which…
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Food Adorable Sailors Discover Knishes During Fleet Week
Fleet Week draws to a close today, but I got a souvenir at Yohah Shimmel Knish Bakery in the form of this photograph. These three sailors, each from different parts of the country, were walking past the venerable Lower East Side bakery and deli and decided that the knishes in the window looked too good…
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