http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/dining/vinegar-cocktails-are-making-the-rounds.html

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“Traditional Meal Ending Holy Days Becomes an Event”
The New York Times: October 1, 2011
By Mark Oppenheimer
Photos by Casey Kelbaugh
“In recent years, breaking the fast after Yom Kippur has become part of the Jewish social calendar,” says The New York Times in a National story that features Josh Russ Tupper and some wonderful photos of Russ [...]

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Sloane Crosley started off a new web Op-Ed column (”Townies, a series about life in New York written by the novelists, journalists and essayists who live there, appears every Thursday. October’s columnist is Sloane Crosley, the author of How Did You Get This Number.”) on The New York Times‘ “Opinionator” page with “New York [...]

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With cold season well underway, we all know someone who is under the weather. Send the gift of comfort and care with the Get Well Soon Package. What could be more nourishing for body and soul than homemade chicken soup?
Featured in The New York Times (11/22/09), this Russ family recipe has 100 years of tender [...]

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In The New York Times article “Herring Return to the City, With Sex In Mind“  Joseph Berger writes, “Herring have found their way back to the Bronx — bound not for fish lovers’ plates, but for a clean, cool place to deposit the next generation.”
Berger reports on the work of New York City parks officials [...]

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New York Times food writer Mark Bittman has a blog: Bitten.  It is particularly fantastic in that it features not only him, but posts from a few other writers as well.  The mix of voices - all essentially in search of, well, how to cook everything -  is singularly obsessed with cooking and eating fresh/local/sustainable [...]

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The New York Times visited a few of the city’s remaining neon sign makers in the wake of many businesses today turning instead to LED or back-lit plastic. The Times ran a great photo, of the Russ & Daughters’ sign and storefront. See it above.
In the article, Christopher Gray writes,
“The sign for the Russ & [...]

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Since July, the New York Times has featured a blog, Abstract City, by Christoph Niemann. Niemann is an accomplished illustrator; he does covers for The New Yorker, The NYT Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, and others, and he is also a children’s book author.  Niemann now lives in Berlin with his young sons and his wife, but [...]

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Halvah from Russ & Daughters was featured in this weekend’s T Style: Design & Living Magazine in The New York Times. The article, by Merrill Stubbs, titled, “The New Staples: the Ingredients of the Season, From Near and Far” noted:
Halvah
From $7 a pound at Russ & Daughters, 179 East Houston Street. Call (800) 787-7229.
Typically made [...]

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