Chairman of the Broads
You wouldn't guess from the looks of him, but Ross Jeffries is a skirt-chasing shaman who presides over a vast Speed Seduction empire.
Nobody’s Nobody
Meital Dohan is such a big star in Israel, if she so much as spits in Tel-Aviv, it lands in the _Yedioth Ahronoth_ gossip column. The award-winning actress has become a household name from her TV roles in _Elvi...
Lisa Loeb
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When I'm finally introduced to the folk singer, I make a sympathetic remark about how hard it seems to be back in the saddle again. Loeb looks at me sharply behind her signatu...
No Chopped Liver
There was the time I gave a poop sandwich to my rabbi. It was at the confirmation class picnic in my backyard and I was 16 years old—old enough to know it wasn't funny. But I thought he would understand. I thou...
You Say Tomato
_New York_ Magazine features an interview with Jason Wishnow, director of a vegetarian version of _Oedipus_ (which screened at the "Second _Heeb_ Film Festival":http://heebish.com/galleries/view/2 this past Nov...
Nevermind the Brisket
You are probably as accustomed to walking past Tex-Mex, Thai-French and Pan-Asian restaurants as you are the neighborhood deli. But a "Cuban Reuben"? Don't laugh, Jewish fusion may be coming to a Main Street ne...
Boiling Point
I was on the Indonesian island of Flores, famous for its multicolored volcanic lakes, and I came across a bunch of backpackers talking to a restaurant owner about the possibility of him roasting them a dog for ...
Our Stomachs, Ourselves
"Krazy" Kevin Lipsitz once knew what victory tasted like: kosher pickles. Six years ago, the magazine subscription manager from Staten Island took first place in the Carnegie Deli Annual Pickle Eating Contest b...
Jewdar
*Be My Guest:*
We found ourselves on an express train to Thrillsville when we learned that not only is *Christopher Guest* in post-production on a new film, _For Your Consideration_, but that the plot revolves...
Let Them Eat Haute
In today's "_Slate_ profile of Tim and Nina Zagat,":http://www.slate.com/id/2158320/ Tim explains why he entrusts Zagat ratings to the uncouth masses instead of a trained food critic. "I would replace Einstein ...
Quality Con-Troll
"Anti-Slam":http://www.revjen.com/antislam/index.html host and "_Heeb_ Storytelling alum":http://heebish.com/photos/view/129 Rev Jen has a troll museum in her LES apartment with over 400 specimens of the Scandi...
Feast or Famine
With the book and now film _Fast Food Nation_, Walmart's recent switch to organic produce, Slow Food restaurants popping up all over the country and what seems to be a growing hunger for "inconvenient truths," ...
