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Food Trump Takes Bite Out Of School Lunch Reforms And Former White House Chef Bites Back
After Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue joined students at an elementary school cafeteria in Leesburg, Virginia, on Monday and signed away some of former First Lady Michelle Obama’s 2010 school lunch reforms, former White House Chef Sam Kass registered his outrage. “Considering the deeply struggling farm economy, that climate change is making it harder to grow…
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Food Star Chef’s Jewish Diner Makes GQ Top 10 Restaurant List
The accolades keep coming for Philadelphia’s CookNSolo, the restaurant group of chef Michael Solomonov and business partner Steve Cook that includes the acclaimed Zahav, Abe Fisher and Federal Donuts. In the May issue of GQ magazine, one of the team’s newer spots, Rooster Soup Co., whose chef is Erin O’Shea, is dubbed one of the…
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Food Pesach ‘Hostages’: Mexican Hotel Won’t Let Our People Go
When guests attempted to check out of the Royalton Riviera Cancun hotel on April 19 — the last day of a Passover program hosted by a travel group called Passover Paradise — they were told that they couldn’t leave until they paid tens of thousands of dollars each. According to the hotel, the Passover Paradise…
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Opinion Look For The #SilverLining
Most of us in journalism didn’t go into the profession only to write stories about people behaving badly, or only to rail against injustice, or only to point out all of society’s flaws. But too often the magnetic pull of the negative becomes the default definition of “news” and journalism fails to make enough room…
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Food Mar-A-Lago Kitchen Slapped With 13 Health Code Violations
The kitchen at President Donald Trump’s “Winter White House,” Mar-a-Lago, was slapped with 13 health-code violations, according to an article in Wednesday’s Miami Herald. The exclusive Palm Beach country club, whose members — many of whom are Jewish — pay an initiation fee of $200,000, was given a citation on January 26, 2017 by the…
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Food Sweet Celebration: Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews Turn 100
My mother wasn’t a candy person. (She was a salad person — though in restaurants she told everyone at the table what to order so she could taste the things she’d have preferred to eat if she wasn’t on a perpetual diet.) I can’t remember or even imagine my mother indulging in a Snickers or…
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Food Chef Michael Solomonov Is James Beard Finalist (And Movie Star)
In yet another sign that an Israeli-food renaissance is taking place in the U.S., the James Beard Foundation yesterday named Israeli-born Zahav chef Michael Solomonov a finalist in the Outstanding Chef category, a top national honor of the prestigious annual culinary awards. The winners will be named in a ceremony on May 1, at a…
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Food 5 Dishes. 5 Stories. So Jewish.
The smell of schmaltz-popped corn greeted the noisy crowd filing up the stairs of the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side last week. The draw? A Moth-like storytelling event, with food, called “Schmaltzy: 5 dishes. 5 stories. So Jewish.” The brainchild of Jewish Food Society founder Naama Shefi, the organization’s first public event…
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