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Food Are You Ready for the Kosher Grape Juice War?
(JTA) – is coming to seder this year. For decades, America’s kosher grape juice market has been dominated by Kedem, whose sweet libations come in concord, blush, white, peach, diet and a variety of sparkling flavors. But with U.S. sales flat when it comes to non-kosher grape juice, Welch’s, America’s largest grape juice company, is…
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Food Babka Pie for Thanksgiving and All the Weekly Dish
Humble pie? Not at Israeli-owned , which is whipping up five new pies for Thanksgiving. Among them: chocolate babka (pictured above), a riff on its cultishly admired babka; a traditional double-crust apple pie; delicately spiced pumpkin pie; and a classic pecan made with caramel. We’re kind of pumpkined out, but Breads has also rolled out…
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Food 12 Chairs Cafe Proudly Offers Israeli Experience — in Brooklyn
Shakshuka in pita, at the new branch of the 12 Chairs Cafe. Israeli-born chefs and restaurant owners in Manhattan usually try not to draw attention to their origins. It’s not that they are ashamed of their cultural background, but they tend to call the cuisine served at their establishments “Mediterranean” rather than “Israeli.” What can…
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Food Ruffled Feathers Over Wegmans’ Kosher Labeling
A New Jersey lawyer is crying “fowl” over food-handling practices at a Cherry Hill branch of supermarket giant , calling its kosher labeling “misleading and fraudulent.” Adam Rosen alleges that the chain is unwrapping kosher chickens, cooking them in unsupervised ovens, seasoning the birds and then repackaging them with stickers that say “kosher.” “It struck…
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Food Classic Meets Modern at Kosherfest 2015
Nibbling my way through the Meadowlands Exposition Center yesterday in Secaucus, New Jersey, for the first day of , I tried to glean the prevailing themes from the ocean of kosher products on display. Nothing obvious emerged. What I found was the continued momentum of the movement I recognized at last year’s show toward more…
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Food Finally, a Kosher Restaurant With Michelin Acclaim in Paris
Simone Zanoni, head chef of Le Rafael in Paris. JTA – With 84 Michelin-certified restaurants and a combined total of 115 stars, the French capital offers a dazzling gastronomic selection to anyone willing to stomach the bill. Anyone but observant Jews, that is. For years, the kosher-keeping community has been limited to budget pizzerias or…
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Food The Hottest Latkes in Philly and All the Weekly Dish
Chef Yehuda Sichel’s latke with gin-cured salmon, pickled beets and Boursin. Grab a ticket for this sizzling event before it sells out: Philadelphia’s will host a latke tasting dinner for Hanukkah, chef Yehuda Sichel tells Philadelphia Weekly. “It hasn’t been super publicized yet, but it will be for the first night of Hanukkah,” Sichel says….
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Food Italy’s Parmesan Cheese Goes Kosher
Cheese lovers of the Jewish world, rejoice: the original Parmesan cheese from Italy is now available in a kosher version. The first cheese wheel, adorned with a large Star of David and the word “kosher” written on it in Hebrew, was cut open last week at the Israeli pavilion in the Milan world’s fair. Although…
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