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Food Magic Matzo Balls for a Rocky Mountain High
Joshua Pollack (above) makes his matzo balls with THC-infused schmaltz. When Joshua Pollack got a call from Josh Dinar, a Denver restaurateur, asking if he would provide a bagel brunch for a Jewish foodie conference called , he wasn’t surprised. Since opening Rosenberg’s Bagels last year, Pollack, 31, has become known for bringing authentic bagels…
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Food Dutch Authorities Recommend Banning Kosher Slaughter
The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority advised the government to ban ritual slaughter of animals, citing pain and suffering caused to them in the process. The recommendation appeared in a report by the authority’s risk assessment bureau, the NRC Handelsblad daily Friday. “Ban, from a point of view of animal welfare, the killing…
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Food Einat Admony Sets Date for Combina Opening
Einat Admony, chef-owner of Balaboosta, Bar Bolonat, Taim and the soon-to-open Combina. Foodies, mark your iCals: Chef and her husband and business partner Stefan Nafziger have set November 14 as the opening date for Combina, their new West Village Sephardic-tapas spot. Molly Breidenthal, who is executive chef at Admony’s Bar Bolonat, will also be executive…
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Food Hard Times for Fairway and All the Weekly Dish
, the New York grocery chain founded in 1933 by Nathan Glickberg, is in trouble, says The New York Times. A leveraged buyout has loaded it with debt. An East Coast expansion has stalled. And its share price has tanked. Chains like Whole Foods and Trader Joe have become formidable competitors, says the Times. Nathan…
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Food Cancer and Corned Beef? The WHO Report and the Jewish Deli
Last week the World Health Organization released a that linked consumption of red and processed meats to colon cancer. In the category of processed meats, the W.H.O. panel includes bacon, sausages, hot dogs — basically any meat that has been cooked through processes like curing and smoking for preservation or to enhance flavor. And yes,…
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Food Mark Bittman Brings Vegan Meal Kits to Masses
During the question-and-answer period following his , Mark Bittman was coy when an audience member asked for details about why he’d left the New York Times. (In his farewell column, Bittman wrote that he was going “to do what I’ve been writing about these many years: to make it easier for people to eat more…
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Food My Great Big Challah Bake Experience
The Rockleigh Country Club looked like it had been transformed into a giant, glitzy bakery. Tables in the posh banquet hall were decked out with mixing bowls, spatulas and zipper bags in which all the ingredients for a water challah had been carefully measured out for each cook — all 1,400 of them. It was…
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Food Mark Bittman at JCC
I’m heading to the this evening for what sounds like a pretty fab event — it’s the season launch of Person Place Thing, a series hosted by former New York Times Ethicist Randy Cohen that’s described as “an interview show in which one amazing guest tells three insightful and often hilarious stories.” Tonight’s amazing guest…
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