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Food Meet the Jewish Turkey King of Texas
Around Thanksgiving, Greenberg Smoked Turkey of Tyler, Texas, ships more than 10,000 birds around the world. So who’s this Greenberg? According to the St. Louis Jewish Light, Samuel Greenberg was a Polish immigrant who settled in Texas more than a century ago and smoked birds using his grandmother’s recipe. The company still follows it. After…
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Food Tila Tequila Dinner Spurs Apology from DC Restaurant
I honestly can’t believe that on the same day that I posted an article about a Portuguese restaurant that was vandalized by “activists” who apparently opposed the chef’s recent trip to Israel for a food festival, I now have to report that a DC-area Italian restaurant just issued an apology for inadvertently hosting a white…
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Food Going Fast! Top Kosher Spots Still Have Tables for Thanksgiving Dinner
It’s not too late for a Thanksgiving-eve dinner reservation. Some top kosher spots are stepping up to the plate if your holiday includes a night off from the kitchen. Abigael’s in Manhattan will feature a classic turkey roulade and autumn harvest salad as part of its extensive holiday menu. At Reserve Cut, the pricy Wall…
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Food Portuguese Eatery Vandalized Over Chef’s Visit to Israel
JTA — Anti-Israel activists vandalized a restaurant in Portugal because its head chef participated in a food festival in Israel. The perpetrators, who are believed to be activists for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, on Friday night spilled red paint on the façade of the Cantinho do Avillez restaurant in the northern…
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Food Nutella’s Pareve Competition Wins Top Prize at Kosherfest
It’s a lot like Nutella, but pareve. Now, Parvella’s been named Best in Show in the annual new-product competition that precedes Kosherfest, the giant industry expo that ran last week in Secaucus, New Jersey. An Italian product, Parvella is part of a big wave of kosher products from around the world to gain popularity Stateside….
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Recipes Mitchell Davis’s Amazing Kosher-Non-Kosher Menu
When a kosher-observant family accepted an invitation to join Mitchell Davis, executive vice president of the James Beard Foundation and a close-knit group of non-kosher, food-obsessed friends for the Thanksgiving weekend, the question of what to cook almost overtook the stress of the Presidential election. Related After much back-and-forth, here’s the menu they came up…
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Food A Surefire Way to Spice Up Thanksgiving
Lior Lev Sercarz, the Israeli-born owner of the spice shop La Boîte in New York, is a master at creating nuanced, mouthwatering, mysterious flavor combinations that enhance most any food or drink. He can even transform a Thanksgiving turkey into an inspired, interesting dish. Yes, you read that right. Turkey gets a bad rap: It’s…
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Food How to Celebrate Thanksgiving Katz’s Deli Style
There’s no traditional Thanksgiving dinner at Katz’s Deli, but according to owner Jake Dell, you won’t need one, since Katz’s turkey sandwich is “Thanksgiving in sandwich form.” The gargantuan sandwich “is an all-white-meat, hot-turkey number,” he said. “It’s what I eat most days because you can’t eat pastrami every day. You can get gravy with…
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