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The crew at is hosting a predictably unpredictable Seder with a Middle Eastern flavor. Mile End executive chef Tony Nassif will whip up trad-with-a-twist plates like charred eggplant babaghanoush, sweet-and-spicy roasted peppers, duck chopped liver with shallots and gribenes and confit lamb shank. Tickets are $130 — wine and a copy of “The Unorthodox Haggadah”…
Canter’s Deli, an L.A. icon, is trying its hand in Las Vegas (again). Three years after retreating from Las Vegas, where it had opened an outlet at the Treasure Island casino, is coming back in a big way. The iconic L.A. delicatessen will open a 4,200-square-foot branch at the Linq, a splashy new gambling resort…
From savings bond to burgeoning business: Above, a cappuccino from Birch Coffee. Jeremy Lyman got a $10,000 savings bond from his grandparents for his bar mitzvah. When he cashed it in early, at age 27, he kept it quiet. Now he can kvell. That bar-mitzvah money funded , the burgeoning New York business he started…
Schmaltz is a key ingredient in the base for Ivan Orkin’s shio ramen. Schmaltz is hot, says hip mag. At Ivan Ramen, the Lower East Side spot from the New York chef who took Tokyo, Ivan Orkin, schmaltz is a key ingredient in the base for his shio ramen. Chef David Santos, who operates a…
Funny how things happen: Forward Editor-in-Chief Jane Eisner sent me an email last spring, asking if I had any interest in covering an Israeli not-for-profit called , the country’s largest food bank and food-rescue network. She had gotten word that its founder, Joseph Gitler, was in town that week for a series of meetings. Related…
Tony Award nominee Danny Burstein, who plays Tevye in “Fiddler,” with challah supplied by Challah Connection. The same challah that’s been included in kosher gift baskets and delivered to homes across the country by Challah Connection of Fairfield County, Connecticut, is now feeding Tevye, Golde and the rest of the “Fiddler on the Roof” cast…
Chocolate babka (above) is one of the specialties at the new Eizenshtein’s Bakery. I was thrilled to hear a couple of weeks ago that a chef friend of mine was about to open his own bakery. Naturally, I had to get the inside scoop. Israeli-born Johnny Eizenshtein moved to the States two years ago, when…
A Sephardic Jewish eatery may be the next project for celeb chef , whose restaurant empire spans Washington D.C., Beverly Hills, Las Vegas and South Beach. “I want to open a Sephardic Jewish restaurant. I think L.A. should be the place for that,” the chef behind hotspots like The Bazaar and Oyamel tells Munchies. Stay…
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