Daniel Infeld
By Daniel Infeld
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Food Setting the Table: Framing the Conversation of a Jewish Dinner Table
Starting a family commences a period of change. Expectant parents very quickly transition from thinking for themselves to providing for a new life, and the preparation and anticipation can be overwhelming. Especially when thinking about how we want to feed our new families. This spring, Hazon piloted a new program, called Setting the Table, designed…
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Food Q&A: Michael Solomonov Brings Falafel to ‘Iron Chef’
This past Sunday, Food Network’s “Iron Chef America” featured Israeli-born chef Michael Solomonov, of Philadelphia’s Zahav Restaurant. Solomonov battled Iron Chef Jose Garces in a head to head culinary competition. The pressure was on for both chefs who had just 60 minutes to create a world-class meal featuring passion fruit, the secret competition ingredient, which…
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Food Delighting in Shabbat With or Without Meat — Limmud NY 2011
Throughout the centuries of Jewish tradition, we have celebrated holidays by eating festive meals. In many homes meat is the centerpiece on the table at these joyous occasions. This tradition originates from the book of Isaiah, “If you call the sabbath ‘delight,’ the Lord’s holy day ‘honored’; And if you honor it and go not…
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Food Mixing Bowl: The History of the Latke; Kosher Japanese Cooking
Moment Magazine traces the history of the latke and its competition, the sufganiya. Spicing up traditional Hannukah fare: Mexican food takes on the miracle of the oil with spicy zucchini latkes and brisket tacos. Joy of Kosher talks with a rock-star winemaker in California that has just gone kosher. The Jerusalem Post argues that kosher…
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Food Mixing Bowl: The World’s Best Babka; Award-Winning Israeli Wines
Chowhound argues that the world’s best chocolate babka can be found in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Israelis were surprised to see fraudulent posters appearing to be from the Ministry of Health decrying the health risks of drinking milk. From a Swedish advertising student comes Neighbor Dining. Social media and hachnasat orchim (the Mitzvah of welcoming guests) come…
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Food The Kosher-vore’s Dilemma: Kosherfest 2010
If you shop in almost any grocery store in the US, chances are you have bought a product that is certified Kosher. According to Sue Fishkoff’s new “Kosher Nation” “one third to one half of the food for sale in the typical American supermarket is kosher.” This is big business, “$200 billion of the country’s…
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