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Tracey Zabar's Brisket recipe at The Jew & The Carrot

There are as many ways to cook brisket as there are people cooking it. Here's a great recpe from Tracey Zabar appearing on The Jew & The Carrot (Jews, Food & Contemporary Issues). 

"I spent the first two years of my marriage begging everyone who came to my wedding for recipes. It’s how I taught myself to cook. Imagining that we had to eat something different every week, my repertoire grew quickly. My husband fondly remembers disasters like Chicken Chips (totally burnt cutlets), Banana Goo (cake under-baked and inedible), and Horrible Ugly Mess (a most delicious meatloaf that just looks horrid). But what he really wanted was brisket."
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I spent the first two years of my marriage begging everyone who came to my wedding for recipes. It’s how I taught myself to cook. Imagining that we had to eat something different every week, my repertoire grew quickly. My husband fondly remembers disasters like Chicken Chips (totally burnt cutlets), Banana Goo (cake under-baked and inedible), and Horrible Ugly Mess (a most delicious meatloaf that just looks horrid). But what he really wanted was brisket.

Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/the-jew-and-the-carrot/155176/shabbat-meals-tracey-zabars-brisket/#ixzz1t9zPTUH3

Tracey Zabar knows donuts - not just cookies!

From "The Many Beauties of Fried Dough" by Ralph Gardner Jr.
Published 4/16/12 in The Wall Street Journal

I'll bet this has never happened to you: You're on your way to Brooklyn to visit a donut shop whose donuts Tina Fey has compared to sex when, of all things, you receive an email from Tracey Zabar, a cookbook author and member of the first family of gourmet epicureanism, praising the donuts at the Doughnut Plant in Chelsea and suggesting a visit be scheduled as soon as possible. "Just make sure you eat the crème brulee donuts upside down!"
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Upcoming Trip to Zabar's

Just can’t wait for Sat.  Coming on my annual bus trip from PA to your store. I can’t vacation but always look forward to my yearly trip to your store.  I’m like a kid in a candy shop and when friends are with me they are amazed at how I get off the bus and run to your bread and cheese counter.
Keep up the wonderful store I will always think of this trip as the special day in my life each year.

Linda Faust

 

Lox Means Salty, Nova Means Not

By Len Berk

September 1996

Three years ago I sold my CPA practice and crossed the barrier between work and play. I’d always been a fish lover – as a sportsman, chef and gourmet diner. So when a close friend called and told me that Zabar’s was advertising in the New York Times for a part time lox-slicer, I applied for the job, was interviewed by Mr. Saul Zabar himself, and GOT IT. After 40 years in the world of finance, I traded my suit, tie, calculator and computer for whites, a plastic apron, a sleek, slicing knife – and I love it. With two days on and five off, I can’t wait to get back to work each week. I’d almost do it for nothing (only kidding Mr. Zabar).

The afternoon before my return each week, I anticipate trimming my first salmon of the day – carefully cutting away that deliciously chewy surface of the “side”, exposing the glossy undersurface of the fish; removing the pin bones with needle nose pliers and gliding my vinyl-gloved hand, back and forth, over its new oily surface – a truly sensuous experience. Nothing at all like the graphite in my pencil gliding along the surface of an accountant’s worksheet.

Zabar's in sunny places

I love when we get pics from shoppers (or employees) with their Zabar's gear from around the world. Even our unseasonably pleasant weather is no match for the beautiful serenity that this photo holds. 

Thanks for sending in this pic of Zabar's in paradise!

A New Designer at Zabar's?

So many of you know Sandy, Zabar's remarkable Mail Order Department Manager. She's been here at Zabar's for years and drives holiday orders, customer service and is who keeps us all going through our busiest time of the year.

She shared this wonderful artwork that her son made, with us. Who knows maybe he'll be working along side of her one day

My son Noah drew this and sent it to me so that we can make a t-shirt with this design.  He is working on another one :)

 

Tracey Zabar story in The New York Times, Metropolitan Diary

Dear Diary:

At the end of a long day promoting my new cookbook, I boarded the M104 bus to go home. Rather than the usual hot, overcrowded and noisy ride, the bus was air-conditioned and almost empty. I sat at the back, near a mother with two very excited little girls.

A man sat across from us carrying a musical instrument. The girls chirped, “Is that a guitar?” He replied that it was a violin, opened the case and played a lovely rendition of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.” Next was “Happy Birthday” (for me), and then “Stardust.”

Thank you, sir, for a perfect New York moment.

Tracey Zabar 

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Announcing the winner of The Shiksa contest

The Shiksa in the Kitchen's contest is closed and she hass announced the winner of a Zabar's Babka and Rugelach Crate: it's Linzy Leon.

Here is her comment:
Zabar – Liked! The Shiksa – Liked! My favorite holiday food are the anise flavored sugar cookies my mom’s moroccan family makes for every holiday and shabbat. so simple yet so addictive! i also love the baklava my step mom makes on occasion. that sticky sweetness is amazing. -Linzy

Enjoy your Babka and Rugelach Crate, Linzy!

Chocolate Babka rave reviews!

"I’ve got to write your products a testimonial.  We bought those two babkas – one chocolate, one cinnamon, and my mom, who is an exceedingly hard to please Polish New Yorker, was over the moon when she tried the chocolate one.  Seriously, nothing she has eaten here has ever come close to being what she likes to eat (“It’s okay, but nothing like we have in New York”) that is, until she tried your babka.  The good news is, I gave her your catalog and now I have a whole calendar of holiday gifts to give her!  Thanks for making her happy – and thanks for alleviating the holiday gift-giving stress for finding the perfect gift for mom."

- Pam

The Shiksa in the Kitchen - Zabar's Gift Giveaway

Zabar's Contributing Chef Tori Avey, otherwise known as The Shiksa in the Kitchen, is giving away a Zabar’s Babka and Rugelach Crate this week over at her blog.

It's easy to enter the contest - just comment on her blog post. Want two chances to enter? Like Zabar's on Facebook and like The Shiksa on Facebook - just let us know in your comment that you have liked both pages, and you'll have two chances to win! Visit The Shiksa's site for complete rules for entry.

Zabar’s Babka and Rugelach Crate, enter the contest or order one now.

If you're not already signed up to receive our emails now's the time to do it. This Sunday we'll be sharing a new recipe from Tori for German Marble Cake, perfect for the holidays.