Devra Ferst
By Devra Ferst
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Food Mixing Bowl: The World’s Easiest Falafel Recipe, Vegan BBQ and Is Sixth & Rye Kosher?
Montreal-style deli Mile End’s smoked meat may be coming to your grocery store. Owner Noah Bernamoff dishes on his plans for packaging his meat in an Nona Brooklyn interview. Is Spike Mendelsohn’s new deli truck Sixth & Rye kosher? That depends upon who you ask. The Washington Post takes a look. Kosher meat imported to…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Kosher Bacon Salt?, Defining Ethical Kashrut and Food Safety on Your Phone
The Jewish Week shares the story behind a kosher vegetarian bacon salt. Magen Tzedek, which offers an ethical seal of approval to kosher food producers, responds to a claim by orthodox organization Agudath Israel, that the seal is attempting to change the definition of kashrut. Read both pieces on JTA. We’re thrilled that you’re a…
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Food Mixing Bowl: 2nd Ave Deli Sued, Guss’ Pickles Returns, Defining ‘Local’
A full menu — including corned beef bahn mi and beef bacon — for the New York City-based Kutcher’s restaurant (yes, like the resort in the Catskills), set to open this fall, is finally available. With Octavia’s Porch, Traif, Mile End and Sixth and Rye, Grubstreet wonders, “Is it time to officially declare ‘modern Jewish…
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Food Sixth & Rye: A New Deli Rolls Onto the Streets of D.C.
Updated May 6, 12:50pm EST Let’s face it, the deli is simply not Washington D.C.’s forte. The city, which is increasingly gaining attention for its emphasis on thoughtfully minded food, has always seemed happy to let New York and Montreal have that honor. But that may change on May 20, when a kosher deli on…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Israel’s Best Falafel, USDA’s Food Desert Locator, A High-End Egg Cream
The humble egg cream is making an appearance after dinner and before dessert at Eleven Madison Park in New York City, says T Magazine. The fancy restaurant finishes their rendition of the classic with ” a splash of olive oil…[from] a silver oil can from Tiffany.” [Foreign Policy][2] recently released it’s first-ever food issue. It…
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Food The Kitchen Bookshelf: Tasty Books for Your Yiddishe Mama
Mother’s Day may be a holiday that was made up by Hallmark, but it’s also one well worth celebrating. There’s perhaps no stronger stereotype of a Jewish mother than one who feeds her kindele well: She makes matzo ball soup and roasted chicken for dinner — and sends her children home with Tupperware containers filled…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Defining Sustainability, A Tipsy Egg Cream, Michael Pollan’s Food Rules
Animal science expert Temple Grandin suggests some steps that kosher slaughterhouses could take to improve animal welfare on the op-ed page of the Forward. Josh Ozersky ponders why he thinks Jewish food is bad “I don’t claim to have an answer for this problem, which is one of the most baffling in all of American…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Passover Edition Part 2, Plus the World’s Best Restaurants and Post-Passover Falafel Ideas
What happens after Farm-to-Table? Bloomberg Businessweek reports on municipal-wide composting, writing “Farm to table is good. Farm to table back to farm is even better.” The Progressive Jewish Alliance in LA has created an innovative infographic, bringing the Seder plate in to the modern context of food deserts — areas with little or no access…
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