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 ‘The Saucy Soprano’ blogs traditional Jewish food, with a side of raunch
For some, it was sourdough. For Melina Schein, it involved a tongue. Schein was among those choosing to spend their newfound pandemic hours in the kitchen in 2020. Though hers was a different sort of culinary pursuit than many we heard about; she set out to cook every single recipe in “The Jewish Cookbook,” the…
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Food Julia Turshen on home cooking: ‘Sometimes we don’t feel like it and that’s okay.’
Julia Turshen is the best-selling author of several cookbooks. “Now & Again” was listed as a “Great Read” by NPR and a best cookbook of 2018 by Amazon, while “Small Victories” was named a best cookbook of 2016 by The New York Times and NPR. She is also the host of the “Keep Calm and…
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News As more American Jews intermarry, seminaries face calls to ordain intermarried rabbis
Lex Rofeberg was a junior in college and thinking about becoming a rabbi when he hit a roadblock: he was dating a non-Jew. A representative from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform movement’s seminary, visited Brown University to talk to prospective students, and was questioned by a fellow student about a policy Rofeberg…
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News No time to study Kabbalah? Try the coloring book.
The complex teachings of kabbalah can take years to learn, much less master. Why not start by coloring them in? Tzfat-based artist David Friedman has translated his vivid, psychedelic depictions of Jewish mystical teachings into the hipster diversion du jour. Imagine if the psychedelic poster artists from the 1960s and 70s had gotten really into…
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Food Yotam Ottolenghi’s ‘Flavor’ and the ‘epic revelation’ of a Lag B’omer potato
Yotam Ottolenghi’s journey to becoming one of the world’s most well-known and beloved cookbook authors started with a potato thrown on the fire for the holiday of Lag B’Omer. That’s what we learn in the third of what Ottolenghi refers to as his vegetable trilogy, the newly-published “Flavor: A Cookbook.” This is a book that’s…
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Food During the pandemic, deli food booms in the Bay Area
In the short list of silver linings to the COVID-19 pandemic, this one surely rates near the top: since March, Jewish delis have blossomed in the Bay Area. “It seems like a big hug from Bubbie just when we need one, whether you are Jewish or not,” said Michael Dellar, owner of the upscale San…
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Food Eden Grinshpan, the other Jewish Top Chef judge, celebrates Israeli food
Eden Grinshpan has the kind of career many food-lovers would envy; now the host of Top Chef Canada, she used to host a show for The Cooking Channel called “Eden Eats,” in which she visited various cities to explore their local food scene, a la Anthony Bourdain. Raised in Toronto, Grinshpan is the daughter of…
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News The Jewish couple behind the Central Park women’s statue
When the statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth was unveiled in Central Park, becoming the first statue in Central Park to honor historical women, the Jewish couple largely responsible for making it happen watched the proceedings via Livestream from their home in La Jolla. The former longtime New Yorkers couldn’t…
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