Leah Koenig
By Leah Koenig
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Recipes Break The Fast With A Savory Sephardic Pastry
On Shabbat morning, after synagogue, Sephardic Jews traditionally sit down to a meal called a desayuno (Spanish and Ladino for “breakfast”). The meal is relaxed and casual, a brunchy spread of savory pastries, frittata-like egg dishes, fried eggplant, rice pudding, cheeses, olives, and shots of the anise-flavored apéritif ouzo (known as arak in Arabic). This…
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Recipes Fig and Pumpkin Bread Pudding for Sukkot Breakfast
Unlike Hanukkah’s potato latkes and sufganiyot or Purim’s hamantaschen, there aren’t a lot of specific foods that come along with celebrating Sukkot. Instead, Sukkot is the Jewish calendar’s poster child for seasonal eating. The holiday’s meals highlight the abundance of produce that early autumn brings: crisp apples and creamy squash, slick and heavy eggplants, sweet…
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Food With Fletchers, Montreal’s Bagel Scene Gets Bigger and Better
Two weeks ago, my family and I spent a week in the Laurentian mountains, an hour north of Montreal. We were there for a week-long Jewish music and culture festival called KlezKanada, which has become one of our favorite annual excursions. (Brisk dips in a gorgeous lake, the convergence of the world’s most renowned klezmer…
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Recipes What Jewish Farmers Eat for Breakfast
Summer might be beginning to wind down, but peak harvest season — which, where I live in the Northeast of the United States runs roughly from July through mid-October — is going strong. The farmers market is entering that magical sweet spot where late summer’s sweet corn and glistening eggplants meet early fall’s new crop…
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Food My Breakfast With the Gefilteria Gang
Last week, I had breakfast with Jeffrey Yoskowitz and Liz Alpern — co-founders of the boutique Jewish food company, Gefilteria, and authors of the forthcoming cookbook “The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods”. We gathered for bagels at Hudson Eats, an upscale food court on the southern tip of Manhattan that has…
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Food A Food Fest Devoted to Breakfast
You know that thing where you come up with a great idea and think, “I’m not going to do that, but somebody definitely should.” That’s how I feel about BreakFestival, a two-day breakfast extravaganza that will be held in New York City over Labor Day weekend. Whenever I start planning a party, my first instinct…
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Recipes Frosty Limonanna for a Chill Summer Brunch
When the mercury rises, there is nothing more refreshing than a glass of bracingly cold lemonade. Not even iced coffee quite compares. But there is one drink that manages to improve upon perfection: limonanna — a sweet-tart mashup of lemons, sugar and heaps of fresh mint. Variations on the drink are served throughout the Middle…
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Food World’s Best Rugelach for Breakfast
The first time I tried rugelach from Marzipan Bakery was not in Israel, where the famous bakery is located, but in an office in Midtown Manhattan. A then-coworker of mine had schlepped home two kilos (more than 4 pounds) of the chocolate swirled pastries in his carryon and was gleefully handing them out like an…
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