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Top 10 Seder Faux Pas
Keep your hosts from choking on their matzoh this Passover with Rabbi Simcha Weinstein’s tips on what not to do at a seder
03.28.12
chefs + restaurants
Meet the New Deli
Jewish delicatessens haven’t been this exciting since pastrami first met rye.
October 2009
- Keywords
- sandwiches,
- jewish,
- toronto,
- culinary culture,
- david sax
chefs + restaurants
Smoked Meat vs. Pastrami
I recently ate the famed smoked meat at Schwartz’s in Montreal, then flew back to New York and had the pastrami at Katz’s later that day. Which was better?
03.24.09
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- sandwiches,
- restaurant notes,
- new york,
- montreal,
- robert sietsema
magazine
Who Invited This Guy?
Things get interesting when you’ve got a dinner guest who has, in essence, walked through the Five Books of Moses.
April 2009
- Keywords
- passover,
- seder,
- jewish,
- culinary culture,
- bruce feiler
travel + culture
Madrid Goes Kosher
It took 500 years to find a good Sephardic restaurant in the Spanish capital—but who’s counting?
02.06.09
- Keywords
- lisa abend,
- restaurants,
- madrid,
- culinary culture,
- jewish
food + cooking
Euphoric Hamantaschen
Imagine a pastry cobbled together from age-old recipes of French, Viennese, Russian and Polish Jews. A comforting, crumbly cookie filled with sweet, tart, life-affirming indulgence....
03.20.08
- Keywords
- david shenk,
- jewish,
- culinary culture,
- cookies,
- dessert
food + cooking
A New York Minute
One night around Thanksgiving, I took a walk on the Lower East Side of
Manhattan and came across an amazing sight.
01.02.08
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- new york,
- culinary culture,
- jewish,
- francis lam,
- a new york minute
magazine
An Alphabet for Gourmets, K-L
K is for kosher … and for a few reasons why the dietary laws have been called “one of the best economic regimes ever made public.”
April 1949