Devra Ferst
By Devra Ferst
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News Shabbat Dinner Faces the Future With Panache
It’s a Friday night in Lower Manhattan, on the first Shabbath that truly feels like fall. 38 Prince Street looks as if it must have been a townhouse in a previous life. Now, with scant light shining through the foggy windows, and a locked, unmarked door, it looks almost haunted. I wonder if I have…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Kosher Dining Club, Bubby’s Soup
It’s been a pretty awesome week in the food world and the Jewish food world. Check out our tasty picks. Take a peak into a kosher dinner club. [Grub Street] Or…a tour of the kosher hot spots in Los Angeles. [New York Times] Jewish and Chinese flavors all wrapped into one. Introducing: the Pastrami Egg…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Pastrami Kung Pao; Sukkah Meals
Pastrami is no longer just deli fare. In New York, you’ll find it in tacos, ramen and even Kung Pao. In the Jewish Cookery Book, the first kosher and Jewish cookbook published in America, author Esther Levy provides a recipe for challah but calls it something completely different. Curious? Find out what she called it….
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Food Cooking Ahead: A Complete Break Fast Menu
After a day of atoning and fasting, the last thing any of us want to do is walk into our kitchen, fire up the stove and start cooking a meal that won’t be ready for a few hours. The key to preparing a lovely and delicious break fast, whether it’s for your family or a…
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Food Mixing Bowl: DIY Tahini; I Dream of Falafel
Just because Rosh Hashanah is over, doesn’t mean you can’t still celebrate the start of the year with something sweet. Here are 11 great honey recipes including one for Fig, Phyllo and Honey Stacks and another for Lavender Honey Thyme Frozen Yogurt. [Serious Eats] …And if you’re going through apple withdraw after the holiday, try…
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Recipes Mixing Bowl: The Rosh Hashanah Edition
Fig, Olive Oil and Sea Salt Challah. Need we say more? Smitten Kitchen An oldie, but a goodie. Apple Raisin Challah. [Epicurious] Rosh Hashanah, international style. Check out a round up of recipes from Turkey, Iran, Syria and India. [Serious Eats]( http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/09/rosh-hashanah-recipes-international-turkish-persian-indian-syrian-recipes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seriouseatsfeaturesvideos+%28Serious+Eats%29 ‘Rosh Hashanah, international style. Check out a round up of recipes from Turkey,…
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News Tale of Two Gefiltes
Video: Nate Lavey At its origins, gefilte fish was a perfect example of peasant fare, what the Italians call cucina povera, a cuisine designed to extend limited resources across as many table settings as possible. Starting in the Middle Ages until about 60 years ago, balebustes, or skilled homemakers, visited fishmongers to purchase inexpensive fish…
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Recipes Mixing Bowl: Ruth Reichl’s Matzo Brei; Shabbat Chicken
The secret to feeding a picky child? Matzo brei says Ruth Reichl. [Gilt Taste] Serious Eats hung out with one of our favorite chefs, Israeli-New Yorker Einat Admony. Check out their great Q and A. [Serious Eats] To Market, To Market. Take a tour of a Schwartz’s Kosher Supermarket in Williamsburg and see what Old…
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