Devra Ferst
By Devra Ferst
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Food Jewish Cookbook Ranks #3 in Top 50 List
Trying to decide the world’s best cookbooks is a futile endeavor. As food critics Jay Rayner, Bill Buford, Rachel Cooke and Allan Jenkins write in this weekend’s Observer Food Monthly “After all, one person’s sauce-stained personal favourite is another’s shelf-filling waste of space.” But the team of writers, along with several other noted foodies, made…
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Food Gwyneth Dishes on Her New Cookbook
Gwyneth Paltrow, the svelte Oscar-winning actress who is famous for her kale-detox regimens, has written a cookbook (that’s part Jewish, nonetheless). While this sounds like the last thing I would add to my kitchen bookshelf, famed food critic Jeffrey Steingarten assures readers of this month’s Vogue cover story that “Her knife skills put mine to…
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Food Cheez Doodle Inventor Dies
It’s a rare link that ties together Jews and one of America’s most iconic snack foods. But the recent death of Morrie Yohai, the inventor of the Cheez Doodle, has brought one of those few connections to light. Yohai, who died last week at the age of 90, according to the New York Times invented…
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The Schmooze Clinton Wedding: Here Comes the Bride (Finally)
This week the Forward has rounded up all the facts (read: rumors) on the nuptials of our favorite first daughter Chelsea Clinton to New York i-banker Marc Mezvinksy. We’ve told you all about the guy, dished about how the MOTB really feels about the wedding, revealed the Yiddish past of Rhinebeck, NY, the supposed site…
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Israel News Solomon’s Temple To Be Rebuilt…in São Paulo?
Three times each day, strictly observant Jews pray for the rebuilding of the Temple. Their prayers have been answered. Well, sort of. King Solomon’s Temple, which was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BCE, is finally going to be rebuilt — in São Paulo. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a Brazilian Pentecostal…
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Food Fat of the Land
David Freedenberg told us how he once applied for a job with the New York Police Department’s counter-terrorism unit. He didn’t get the spot, which he says is just as well. “If I got that job, I would go to sleep at night thinking about Times Square blowing up,” he remarked. “Now I think about…
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The Schmooze Solomon’s Temple To Be Rebuilt… in Sao Paulo
Three times each day, strictly observant Jews pray for the rebuilding of the Temple. Their prayers have been answered. King Solomon’s Temple, which was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BCE, is finally going to be rebuilt — in Sao Paulo. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a Brazilian Pentecostal church that claims…
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The Schmooze French Jews Fight To Change Their Names
In the mid-1930’s, my great uncle, just out of high school and struggling to find a job, came home one day to announce he was changing his last name from Gerstenfeld to Grey. The entire family went along with his decision, and today that family is the Grey family. My family is not alone. Jews…
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