Alix Wallis a freelance writer in Oakland, Calif. where she specializes in Jews, love and food.
Alix Wall
By Alix Wall
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Food Yotam Ottolenghi explores the joys of ‘shelf love’
Sure, Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook features hummus and pita on the cover and a recipe for “Creamy, Dreamy Hummus” spread out over four whole pages, but don’t think this book rehashes everything we’ve seen already. The concept for “Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love: Recipes to Unlock the Secrets of Your Pantry, Fridge and Freezer” co-written…
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Food Here’s the new Mediterranean cookbook you need now
At 85, Claudia Roden published her twelfth cookbook, “Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean: Treasured Recipes From a Lifetime of Travel”
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News Their same-sex rabbinical wedding was a historic first for the Conservative movement
(JTA) — You could call it bashert: 15 years after a landmark decision in Judaism’s Conservative movement that paved the way for gay and lesbian students to enter its rabbinical schools and for rabbis to perform same-sex weddings, it would seem like destiny that two Conservative rabbis would wed. Of course, it happened at Camp…
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News Joshua Miele went blind at 4. Now he’s a MacArthur Genius
He’s the bassist for a Jewish spiritual community, an inventor of cutting edge technologies for the blind and now: a MacArthur Genius. This week, the MacArthur Foundation announced Joshua A. Miele as a 2021 fellow. The fellowships, commonly called the “Genius Awards,” come with $625,000 over five years, with no strings attached, and are given…
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News After 25 years, iconic He’Brew beer shuts off the tap
Jeremy Cowan, who launched He’Brew beer in San Francisco in 1996, has decided to close the spigot on the brand that brought high quality craft beer—and innumerable Jewish puns— to weddings, bar mitzvahs and liquor stores around the country. Cowan has been the face of He’Brew and its Shmaltz Brewing Company – the only identifiably…
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News He was sentenced to life in prison. Rescue dogs — and a rabbi — helped him find redemption.
VACAVILLE, Calif. (JTA) – Soon after Jon Grobman was released from prison, where he had once thought he would die, he headed back inside voluntarily — this time with canine sidekicks. Grobman was returning as the newest hire of a nonprofit group, Paws for Life K9 Rescue, that had been instrumental in his own long…
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News Diamond Bakery’s new owners want it to be a force for change—and for great marbled rye
A few months ago, two men drove from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles to satisfy their craving for a good pastrami sandwich. The trip turned out to be life-changing. They bought their sandwiches — and decided to buy a famous Jewish bakery, too. “We came down to buy a pastrami sandwich and bought the most…
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Food Think you have enough Israeli-inspired cookbooks? You still need “Bavel.”
It’s a bit of a surreal experience opening “Bavel.” The new cookbook by Ori Menashe, Genevieve Gergis and Lesley Suter, due out May 25, makes no mention of what many consider the worst year to ever to befall the industry. And at a time when the conflict is front page news, the main mentions of…
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