Leah Koenig
By Leah Koenig
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Recipes Mamaliga Porridge With Plum Compote
The ultimate Jewish breakfast porridge, Romanian mamaliga is served here with sour cream and a seasonal plum compote. Last spring, , I traveled around Romania with my friends Julie and Benjy. Julie was also pregnant, right around 6 months like I was, and we saw the trip as a last hurrah before life got different….
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Food Beyond the Bagel — The Shuka Truck
Purely for research purposes, you understand, the author sampled both the traditional red shakshuka and the green version, with a sauce of asparagus and spinach. The website for — a recently opened, kosher-certified food truck in New York City — says it opens for business at 9 in the morning. That makes sense. Shakshuka, a…
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Recipes Beyond the Bagel — Kibbutz Breakfast
A simply delicious morning meal consisting of (clockwise from top) a corn and eggplant pashtida thick yogurt with olive oil and za’atar and a fresh chopped salad. The summer after I graduated college, I spent a month pruning grape vines on an organic vineyard in Tuscany. Tough life, I know. Each morning we volunteers would…
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Recipes Leah’s Corn and Eggplant Pashtida
A close cousin of the quiche (though often made without a crust), the pashtida is perfect morning fare. A jumble of eggs, dairy and vegetables, it pulls the best flavors of into a hearty main dish. Serves 4-6 ¼ cup vegetable oil (e.g. sunflower or safflower), plus more for pan 1 large sweet onion, finely…
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Food Beyond the Bagel
Granola and yogurt. Waffles with maple syrup. Fried eggs on toast. Is there anything more satisfying than a good, unhurried breakfast? It’s certainly up there. And when you add a side of Jewish culture, history and recipes, it’s even better. As a bona fide breakfast fanatic, I am thrilled to announce Beyond the Bagel, a…
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Recipes Spinach-Matzo Lasagna
Read the interview with Leah. Over the last decade, matzo lasagna has quickly and emphatically entered the Passover mainstream. Its rise has partly to do with the need it fills for a substantive main dish to serve during the holiday’s weeklong bread ban. The other reason for its popularity? It’s delicious, and remarkably so. Softened…
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Recipes Matzo Granola With Walnuts and Coconut
Read the interview with Leah. Breakfast can be tough going during Passover. With toast, bagels, cereal, waffles, muffins, oatmeal and pretty much every other starchy breakfast staple off the menu, the options are seriously limited. Enter this granola. The crumbled matzo that replaces the typical rolled oats gets toasty and crisp in the oven, and…
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Books Roasted Beet Salad With Preserved Lemon
Photograph by Sang An With all due respect to the classic pairing of beets and goat cheese, there are other ways to serve cooked beets! Take this salad, which tosses them with preserved lemon, fennel, basil and capers. The lemon and capers act as a tangy counterpart to the sweet Mediterranean root, and the fresh…
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