The Melt by Jason Diamond

The Melt by Jason Diamond

The Politics of Zabar's

Jerry Nadler's bag, James Baldwin's mixtape and Only NY

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Jason Diamond
Jan 20, 2021
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“Didn’t I read Mein Kampf? I’m a Jew. Hitler is my enemy. I should know what he’s doing.” – Murray Klein to New York magazine 1982

We’re often reminded about how you can’t really separate the political from food, how every dish tells some kind of story, from where the people who worked in the kitchen to prepare it came from to the things a culture had to…

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