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When Eating Out Is Political

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:38 +0000

In the 2010s, Israeli chefs — some who made their name in the U.S., some famous–in–Tel Aviv restaurateurs — started racking up wins in New York. This was a falafel- and bagel-literate society, urbane, health-conscious, every kitchen with a copy of Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi’s Jerusalem<...
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The Arab Food Dynasties of New York

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:38 +0000
The city’s Middle Eastern food scene started with a handful of families cooking from memory along the same few streets. The earliest communities began downtown in the late 1800s, took the ferry to Atlantic Avenue in the early 20th century, then rode the R train — what historian Asad Dandia calls ...
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Normal Gossip’s Rachelle Hampton Used to Have a Fancy Pour-over Routine

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:00:48 +0000
“It’s a little funny doing a show that’s essentially about excavating everyone else’s business when I’m about as private a person as they come,” says Rachelle Hampton, the host of the cult-hit podcast Normal Gossip. Because the...
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The Chainlets Have Never Been Better

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000
Ours is a town that supports its small businesses, especially those happy establishments that are able to replicate across the five boroughs (and occasionally over state lines) without ever growing too big. These are the chainlets, which outlast trends and feed neighbors in several neigh...
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Qmmunity: Pride State of Mind

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000
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The Samurai and the Prisoner Review: Mystery and Revelation in Feudal Japan

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000
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The Week’s Biggest News in Brief: July 30 – Aug. 5

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000
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Qmmunity: Pride State of Mind

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000
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The Samurai and the Prisoner Review: Mystery and Revelation in Feudal Japan

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000
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The Week’s Biggest News in Brief: July 30 – Aug. 5

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000
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One Night Only Review: This Is Fine?

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:52:16 +0000
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One Night Only Review: This Is Fine?

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:52:16 +0000
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A New Destination for Barbecue

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:00:10 +0000
The smell hits you halfway down the block, right around the custom-bra fitter the Rack Shack: fat, smoke, sweet. Bark is dead ahead, a new Dominican-inflected barbecue joint in Bushwick, whose hangar-size space, once home to a paper and plastic wholesaler, ...
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How Bourdain Became the New Elvis

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:00:30 +0000
Midway through Tony, the new film about Anthony Bourdain, the title character, played with brash naïveté by Dominic Sessa, leaps off a pier in Provincetown, Massachusetts, into the Cape Cod Bay at dusk. For a split second, shirtless, limbs...
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RFK: Media Cited Fake ‘Experts’ To Punish Dissent During Covid. Dana Bash: ‘That Is My Job’

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:41:25 +0000
CNN routinely justified major constitutional infringements and helped authoritarians in federal and state governments with narrative control on lockdowns and social distancing.