Devra Ferst
By Devra Ferst
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Food Mixing Bowl: Pastrami Panzanella; Best Delis
The future of the New York bagel is looking up thanks to efforts by Mile End and Russ and Daughters. [New York Magazine] Panzanella — a bread and tomato salad — is a favorite summer food. Here, it’s given a Jewish twist — pastrami and rye panzanella. [Epicurious] If you would rather have your pastrami…
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Food Mixing Bowl: H&H Fight, Katz’s Deli Is ‘Manly?’
The fight over the H&H Bagel name continues to get shmeared. [Grub Street] School lunches are getting a healthy makeover thanks to Michelle Obama’s initiatives. But not so much for students who keep kosher in LA. Katz’s Deli might just be the “manliest” sandwich shop in America, atleast according to Men’s Health Guy Gourmet blog….
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Food Talking Jewish Food on the Radio
When you edit stories about Jewish food everyday — whether they’re about food carts, bagels or hummus (next week we’ll dedicate the entire week to the dip) — you sometimes get so caught up in the details that you forget to step back and look at this rich cultural world you cover. Yesterday, I was…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Kosher Olympics; UN Chef
Incase you didn’t get enough of this already…more on kosher food options at the Olympics. [The Daily Meal] Kutsher’s Tribeca might “knishify” the Upper West and East Sides of Manhattan. The team is talking expansion. [Grub Street] David Lebovitz finishes he tour of Israel in Tel Aviv. Food porn ahead. [David Lebovitz] Daryl Schembeck, the…
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Food Mixing Bowl: ‘Perfect’ Bagel; Kosher Supper Club
What’s it like to run an underground kosher supper club and speakeasy? Itta Werdiger Roth, founder of The Hester, shares her story [Jewess With Attitude] A look into one of Israel’s largest challah bakeries. [The Kitchn] …and Israel’s largest hummus factory. [Serious Eats] Twenty-seven-year-old former genetics student Dan Graf is using science to build the…
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News The Kosher Cure
Holding a thinly sliced piece of prosciutto between two of her fingers, Marina, my Italian host mother, declared, “Dai, provalo!” Come on, try it! It was my first night living in Italy for a semester abroad, and I arrived as a kosher-keeping vegetarian. I hadn’t eaten any meat, let alone pork, for nearly four years,…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Kosher Wimbledon; Pickle Video
Take a tour of Uri Buri’s ice cream shop in Acco, where he makes locally sourced seasonal ice cream flavors like yogurt with lime and poppy seeds. [Serious Eats] A kosher food truck rolled up to Wimbledon last week, giving kosher tennis fans some options other than a tuna fish sandwich. [Chabad.org] Paris-based food writer,…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Nora Ephron Cookbook; Bamba and Jezebel
The fantastic Paris-based food writer David Lebovitz is in Israel and has taken us along for the ride on his blog. [David Lebovitz] An introduction and an ode to the Israeli snack food Bamba. [Serious Eats] New York’s newest hip kosher restaurant Jezebel is finally set to open. [Women’s Wear Daily] One mother schlepps kosher…
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