• According to Lena Dunham, Drake has a crush on Jewish actress Kat Dennings. Could it be beshert? [Vulture]

• You can send Mark Zuckerberg a Facebook message, but it might set you back $100. [Newser]

• What happens when you discover your husband’s great uncle was a Jewish gangster. [Tablet]

• Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger has some restaurant recommendations for you. [Immaculate Infatuation]

• Jonah Hill + Leo DiCaprio = BFF [Page Six]

• Here’s the trailer for Joan Rivers’ latest DVD, Don’t Start With Me:

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We here at Jewcy are big fans of the restaurant website Immaculate Infatuation, and are always excited when people we like share their favorite places to eat in the site’s Friday Fives feature. This week highlights restaurant pics from sibling chefs Eli and Max Sussman, who just came out with a new cookbook, helpfully called This is a Cookbook.

Jewcy chatted with the wunderkind chefs (Max works at Roberta’s and Eli works at Mile End) back in December 2011, and learned this summer camp gem: “They both got their start in the Detroit suburb of their childhood. They were raised to appreciate food by an artist mother who cooked dinner every night and lawyer father who baked challah every Friday. As a result, instead of becoming counselors at their Jewish sleepaway camp, they ran the kitchen.” They also shared a pretty awesome latke recipe.

All grown up now, the brothers gave Immaculate some great restaurant recommendations. Eli’s pick for Classic NYC Establishment? 2nd Avenue Deli: “Our parents keep kosher, and our dad is a huge fan of tongue and pastrami. So whenever they come to NYC we head over to lunch and get this absurd gargantuan meat platter with bowls of matzo ball soup, a stack of pickles, and Dr. Browns all around.” Max went with Russ and Daughters, which is a choice we can get behind: “I’m a sucker for smoked and cured fish, and this is the place right here. Often imitated, never duplicated.”

Not starving yet? Check out the trailer for This Is a Cookbook:

This Is a Cookbook by Max & Eli Sussman (Official Trailer) from iBookstore on Vimeo.

Previously: Two Jewish Brothers Walk Into A Brooklyn Kitchen (And Come Out With A Latke Recipe)

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Orthodox Jewish chef-turned-musician Alex Clare—the man behind this summer’s relentlessly popular song, “Too Close”—listed his favorite kosher restaurants for food website Immaculate Infatuation’s Friday Fives feature. Spoiler alert: the globe-trotting musician’s favorite kosher joint is in Crown Heights:

“My all time favorite restaurant is Basil in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Most Kosher restaurants you go into and you know it’s kosher. The food is horrible, service sucks. With this one you’d never know. The food is phenomenal. The branzino salad, grilled fish on cold lettuce is fantastic. Basil ice cream. The thing I would order are the polenta fries, cut soft and fluffy in the middle, crispy on the outside.”

Also on his list are LA’s Mexikosher and Shiloh’s, The White House Express in London, Einstein’s in Munich, and Birthright hot spot Burgers Bar on Emek Refaim in Jerusalem.

We do take some issue, however, with one thing the Immaculate guys write in their intro to Clare’s picks: “Being a touring artist is challenging, we can’t imagine that there are a lot of kosher restaurants to choose from when one is in Houston, TX.” We checked with our Houston correspondent, The Scroll editor Adam Chandler’s mom, who says there are in fact several kosher restaurants in Houston, and that the kosher pizza there is great.

Her Houston picks: Madras (Indian), Aroma (pizza and salads), Saba (dairy), My Pita (Israeli, with good shawarma), and Suzie’s (eclectic), and Nosher at the J (sandwiches, soups).

And finally, here’s how you know Alex Clare:

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