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Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
There’s always a trout moment, either cured like lox, or cubed into a tartare perfect on crunchy toast, with fish plucked from the shimmering lake right outside the floor-to-ceiling restaurant windows.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024
The bride and groom got ready at Fouquet’s New York in Tribeca over bagels and lox from Russ & Daughters.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
Options range from classics like lox spread to the highly unconventional bubble gum-pink strawberry chocolate chip cream cheese, which might entice picky little ones.
—Devra Ferst, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2024
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Noun
At Odell’s Bagel, which opened in October 2024, Miles Odell lends the nuances of Japanese cooking to bagel culture, hand-rolling every bagel, house-smoking his lox, and koji-curing his pastrami.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
There’s always a trout moment, either cured like lox, or cubed into a tartare perfect on crunchy toast, with fish plucked from the shimmering lake right outside the floor-to-ceiling restaurant windows.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024
The bride and groom got ready at Fouquet’s New York in Tribeca over bagels and lox from Russ & Daughters.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
Options range from classics like lox spread to the highly unconventional bubble gum-pink strawberry chocolate chip cream cheese, which might entice picky little ones.
—Devra Ferst, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2024
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“Lox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lox. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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lox
1 of 2 noun
: liquid oxygen
lox
2 of 2 noun
plural lox or loxes
: salmon that has been cured in brine and sometimes smoked
Etymology
Noun
liquid oxygen
Noun
from Yiddish laks "lox," from an old German word lahs "salmon"
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