Leah Koenig
By Leah Koenig
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Recipes Pumpkin-Apple Challah and Other Breakfast Breads
Pumpkin-apple challah from “Modern Jewish Cooking,” photographed by Sari Kamin of . What is it about Jews and bread? I can’t help but notice that virtually every time I read a bread-related story (and there are a lot of them lately), it involves a member of the Tribe. Innovative, socially conscious bakery putting out a…
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Food Breakfast With a Precocious New York Food Pro
Breakfast at Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop with 27-year-old food writer Max Falkowitz. I have a feeling that, as a child, Max Falkowitz was no stranger to the words, “You are wise beyond your years, young man.” The statement holds true even now. Falkowitz has made an impressive name for himself at two respected food publications, first…
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Recipes Valentine’s Day Breakfast In Bed, With a Jewish Twist
I’ll admit it: I have never been served breakfast in bed. My husband has cooked breakfast for me while I’m still in bed (pretending to still be asleep so I don’t spoil his surprise — honestly, who can stay sleeping with the smell of coffee and pancakes wafting into the room?). But as someone prone…
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Food Giving Dairy Its Due at Breakfast
Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine has a bit of a meat problem: In short, there is just too much of it on the table. There was a time when dairy and meat held more equal footing in Eastern European-American culinary consciousness, and Jewish dairy restaurants like were as popular as their meat-heavy cousin, the delicatessen. But somewhere…
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Food Breakfast in the Blizzard
A worker at the Park Slope Food Coop helps a customer cross the snowy street safely with her groceries. While standing in a 20-person line at my food coop last Friday, it occurred to me: When a major snowstorm threatens, everyone becomes a Jewish mother. My cart was packed with the fixings for chicken soup…
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Food Breakfast in Panama City
Before arriving in Panama City with my husband and son last week, we spoke with friends who had made the trip, and they told us to get ready for the fruit. They were right. The tropical metropolis is overflowing with stunningly sweet pineapples, mangos, melons and guavas (and many other species I could not readily…
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Food A Technicolor Brunch Demo
Leah Koenig showing a New Jersey congregation how to make her smoked-salmon hash with lemon-mint vinaigrette — and we have the recipe. It wasn’t my birthday yesterday morning, but if I hadn’t looked at the calendar I easily could have been fooled. The morning started out early (thanks to a 5:15 a.m. wakeup call from…
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Food Bagels at Hazon Conference That Rivaled New York’s
A participant at the Hazon Food Conference, Rabbi Jonathan Rubenstein (white beard) demonstrated challah braiding and bagel rolling. Alexander Rapaport of captured a moment. For a certain type of food- and sustainability-loving Jew (count me in on that list), and really for anyone who enjoys eating well, attending a conference or event at the Isabella…
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