Leah Koenig
By Leah Koenig
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Food My Berry Breakfast in Krakow
Last week, my family and I flew to Poland to attend the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow. Now in its 26th year, the festival brings together thousands of musicians, artists and fans from around the city and globe to explore Krakow’s storied — and largely lost — Jewish past, and celebrate with more than a…
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Food A Smoked Fish Primer
Eating smoked fish for breakfast is a rite of passage for any Jewish food fan. And for true devotees, nothing brings joy like a bagel spread just so with cream cheese and layered with piles of silky, coral-colored cured salmon slices. But for those of us who did not grow up accompanying our dads to…
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Recipes 3 Secret-Ingredient Breakfast Smoothies
These days, when I ask my almost-2-year-old son, Max, what he wants for breakfast, he nearly always requests a smoothienana. If you don’t happen to speak Max, that’s toddler language for “banana smoothie.” He then heads to the cabinet where we keep the blender and all but picks it up and puts it on the…
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Recipes Herb-Infused Strawberry Bellini — for Breakfast!
When I was last in Israel a few years ago, I remember being struck by the scores of fresh juice and smoothie kiosks around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Some were small and humble — little more than an old-fashioned citrus press and a blender. Others were more elaborate. But they were everywhere, dotting open-air markets…
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Recipes Ricotta-Fruit Toast for Shavuot Breakfast
Of all the confounding mysteries of Jewish tradition, why Jews eat dairy foods on the holiday of Shavuot certainly isn’t the biggest or most important. But I have always wondered how Shavuot became the cheese holiday. Related Cheesecake for Breakfast — and Soon, for Shavuot 15 Fabulous Vegetarian Dairy Recipes for Shavuot How I Turned…
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Food Curious Cook Prefers Roadmaps to Recipes
For someone who spends most of her waking hours thinking about food and cooking, Adina Steiman has a surprising confession: “I kind of hate recipes,” she said. Of course, that isn’t entirely true. Steiman is special projects editor at Epicurious, one of the country’s leading food websites that houses new recipes and the recipe archives…
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Food Cheesecake for Breakfast — and Soon, for Shavuot
Where I live in Brooklyn, there is no shortage of worthy bakeries, from old-school Jewish joints like Isaac’s Bake Shop and Ostrovitsky to artisanal spots like Ovenly and Bien Cuit. Like with most things, I have found that getting my hands on a perfectly flaky breakfast croissant or satisfying an afternoon cookie craving doesn’t require…
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Food 5 (Actually 6) Jewish Cookbooks for the Breakfast Fanatic
Breakfast is a sadly underrepresented category in the field of Jewish cookbooks. Scanning through the table of contents in most of them, you’d be hard pressed to find a category devoted to the morning meal. Even foods that theoretically belong in a breakfast chapter, such as blintzes, bourekas and matzo brei, tend to be assigned…
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