Leah Koenig
By Leah Koenig
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Food Mead: The Next Generation
Getty Images On Rosh Hashanah, Ben Alexander and his family will toast the new year with apples and honey — literally. Instead of just dipping slices of the autumnal fruit into honey, they will sip apple cyser, a fragrant mixture of apple cider and mead. It’s only fitting, since Alexander is the co-founder of Maine…
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Food Nouveau Middle East Food Goes West
Kramer and her business partner ate at Haj Kalil, an Arab restaurant in Jaffa, Israel. / Photo courtesy of Sara Kramer Sara Kramer is not the first busy New Yorker to feel the alluring pull of the West Coast. But she might be the first heading there with Turkish Urfa pepper and za’atar, Middle Eastern…
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Food ‘Epic’ Kosher Catering for the Epicurean in You
Isaac Bernstein prepares dishes at a recent Epic Bites event. / Courtesy of Epic Bites On a recent Friday afternoon, when I normally would be working or cooking for Sabbath dinner guests, I found myself in my friends Naf and Anna Hanau’s Brooklyn living room, tucking into a plate of pigeon confit drizzled with a…
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Food A Letter to My Jewish Baby
Kurt Hoffman Sometime in early August, if all goes as expected, I will become a mom. Naturally, I am filled with excitement. But I also have my fears and doubts — particularly about becoming a stereotypical Jewish mother. As a food writer, the Jewish mom’s obsessive desire to push food onto loved ones cuts closest…
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Food Jewish Cuisine Makes Stunning Comeback in Hungary
Courtesy of Rosenstein Walking into Macesz Huszár, a Hungarian Jewish restaurant in Budapest’s historic — and, more recently, ultra-fashionable — Jewish district, two distinct moods emerge. The lacy tablecloths and vintage light fixtures have all the retro-coziness of dinner at grandma’s house. But other details, from the crisply dressed waiters to the chic stemware set…
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Food 6 Kosher Wines To Sip This Seder
Kosher wine maker and collector Jeff Morgan says the kosher wine world is experiencing an “ongoing renaissance” — particularly in Israel and America and, to a lesser extent, in Europe. Here are his recommendations for exceptional bottles for the Seder table: Covenant Lavan Chardonnay Sonoma Mountain 2011, California ($38) This wine is sourced from a…
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Fast Forward A Kosher Winery Grows in Berkeley
Jeff Morgan’s story is one best told over a glass of wine — preferably a robust cabernet by Covenant, the kosher wine company he has co-owned for more than a decade. A roving jazz musician and writer turned vintner, Morgan has spent most of the past 10 years working with California vineyards and wineries to…
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Recipes The Art of Couscous
‘For most people, you eat a hamantaschen on Purim and that’s that,” said Leetal Arazi. “We want to do something more.” Along with her husband Ron Arazi, Leetal runs NYShuk, an artisanal food company focusing on Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewish cuisines. And this Purim they’re planning a Moroccan feast with the Brooklyn-based Crow Hill…
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