Leah Koenig
By Leah Koenig
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The Schmooze Painting Pictures of India’s Jews
Last month, while researching an article for The Forward about Indian Jewish cuisine, I spent the afternoon in Montclair, New Jersey with Siona Benjamin. A home cook who grew up in Mumbai’s Jewish community, Benjamin demonstrated how to prepare a traditional Shabbat coconut curry and a sweet rice and coconut dish called malida that Indian…
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Recipes Shabbat Coconut Chicken Curry
Martyna Starosta Serve this curry ladled into bowls over steaming basmati rice or coconut rice (rice where half or more of the cooking water is replaced with coconut milk). If desired, experiment with adding different vegetables to the curry, like cauliflower, green beans or potatoes. Serves 6 ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1…
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Food Recipes for an Indian Jewish Festival
Poha, or flattened rice, and fresh or fresh frozen shredded coconut can be found at Indian or other specialty food stores. Serves 6 4 cups thin poha 1 cup fresh (or fresh frozen) shredded coconut ½ cup raw sugar, or more to taste 8 cardamom pods ¼ cup sliced almonds ¼ cup black raisins ¼…
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Recipes The Flavors of Jewish India
‘The scent of clove and cardamom immediately brings me back to my grandmother’s kitchen in Mumbai,” Siona Benjamin tells me as she stands in her own sunlit kitchen, in Montclair, N.J., with the makings of coconut chicken curry — cans of coconut milk, fresh ginger and a round, silver tray lined with small bowls of…
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Food Chef Micah Wexler Brings Deli Revolution to Los Angeles
Outside the kitchen, Micah Wexler is friendly, funny and never without a 5 o’clock shadow. He’s the Seth Rogen of chefs — the kind of guy you wish you could grab a beer with. But in the kitchen he’s all business. Music during dinner prep? That’s fine. But come dinner service, it’s time for him…
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Food What’s Your Desert Island Jewish Meal?
What is your ultimate Jewish meal? Imagine you are on a deserted island: what Jewish foods — Ashkenazi or Sephardi, home cooked, or from a restaurant, nostalgic or nouveau — would you want to nosh on? We asked some of our favorite food luminaries what their last Jewish meal would be and were delighted by…
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Food Ramen Noodles, Meet the Matzo Ball
In the bathroom at Shalom Japan, a new Jewish-Japanese fusion restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hangs a framed poster of the famous 1960s advertisement for Levy’s rye bread featuring a young Japanese boy holding a sandwich with the slogan: “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s.” Outside in the dining room, the menu at…
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Food In the Kitchen With Brooklyn’s Kosher Revolutionary
On a crisp morning earlier this fall, I met chef Itta Werdiger Roth outside a small storefront in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. The windows were still covered with newspaper, but inside was the beginning of Mason & Mug, a new artisanal kosher restaurant she is set to open on November 25 with her…
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