This past weekend, Mile End, Tablet Magazine, and ABC Home teamed up to present The Future of Jewish Food, where insiders from across the food industry talked Jews, food, and Jews eating food. Top Chef’s Gail Simmons (who wrote “keep cooking” in my copy of her book!) and Mitchell Davis of the James Beard Foundation (the only acronym that night where the ‘J’ didn’t stand for ‘Jewish’) discussed the future of the Jewish kitchen with food writer Joan Nathan, and then David Sax, author of Save the Deli, probed the future of the Jewish deli with the guys behind uber-trendy new-wave delis like Brooklyn’s Mile End, San Francisco’s Wise Sons, Portland’s Kenny and Zukes, and Saul’s Deli in Berkeley.

The highlight of the event was when Nathan asked her panelists to predict what Jewish food will look like in the year 3000. Simmons assured the crowd, perched on stylish chairs in the ABC Home event space, that there would still be matzoh balls. I like to imagine the ensuing sigh of relief as collective and not just mine.

Check out Tablet’s footage from the event, just be sure to wipe the drool off your computer keyboard after. We fully endorse event MC Alana Newhouse’s endorsement of lox:

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• Designer Donna Karan is set to re-open her London DKNY store.

• Israeli writer Etgar Keret is about to move into the narrowest house in Warsaw.

• The Jewish Museum in New York will show the Jack Goldstein retrospective that was previously canceled at LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

• One of the architects of Auschwitz was trained at the Bauhaus, beacon of sophistication.

• Jewcy contributor Adam Lustick is a Casino Virgin:

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• Rachel Figueroa-Levin, of El Bloombito twitter fame, wonders whether to curb her love of bacon and lobster rolls while raising her 15-month old daughter kosher.

• Behold: The Pastrami Dilemma.

• Top Chef judge Gail Simmons likes full sour dill pickles and salt and vinegar chips. We like Gail Simmons.

• Happy National Pig Day!

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