Liz Rueven
By Liz Rueven
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Food Standing Room Only for Tasting the ‘Manifesto’
As a standing-room-only crowd of over 170 gefilte enthusiasts sat at tables listening to Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz dish about their their new book, “The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods,” we heard a recognizable hiss from behind a black curtain. Fittingly, seltzer gas was being released as nibbles were plated…
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Food What Are Kugel and Cholent? Gefilteria Duo Teaches a New Generation
“One student made Russian Rye kvass yesterday and he’s over the moon about it. It’s his favorite Russian beverage and he can’t find it anywhere near campus.” I received this note from Jeffrey Yoskowitz, half of the team, with Liz Alpern, behind Brooklyn’s The Gefilteria and the new “Gefilte Manifesto” cookbook, the day after I…
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Food 8 Nights of Food Gifts: A Box of Israeli Treats
A quarterly shipment, pre-flight. Photograph courtesy of Koofsa Inbal Baum, founder and guide of Delicious Israel culinary tours, has launched a mouth-watering new business for U.S.-based foodies who swoon over Israeli flavors but can’t find an exciting range of authentic products here. With the recent launch of Koofsa (which means “box” in Hebrew), Baum is…
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Food 4Bloggers Dish on Passover
Just eight weeks ago I was basking in the early morning calm on a beach in Costa Rica, when I clicked open an e-mail from two bloggers I follow on facebook. I had met Amy Kritzer, What Jew Wanna Eat, at a meet-up she organized for about 20 NYC area bloggers in early January. We…
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Food Walking the Talk at a Food Conference
Hazon’s mission is a lofty one. It’s so big that I set out to see if all that talk was for real at the Hazon Food Conference, the eighth gathering of the New Jewish Food Movement. With 260 participants gathered at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center over Shabbat Hanukkah we set out to learn about…
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Food Labor Day Ponderings
Labor Day approaches predictably every year, on the first Monday in September. When it was declared a federal holiday in Connecticut in 1894, thirty states were already celebrating, many with street parades and festivals for workers and their families. The idea resonated for the American people then and it continues to resonate now. While the…
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