Liza Schoenfein is a former food editor of the Forward and author of the blog Life, Death & Dinner. Follow her on Instagram @LifeDeathDinner.
Liza Schoenfein
By Liza Schoenfein
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Food In a new cookbook, the forgotten Jewish roots of a Sicilian and her sweets
Plus, a recipe for apple and thyme honey cake with toasted fennel and almonds
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Food At this NYC congregation, food is connecting people to their Judaism
At Temple Shaaray Tefila on the Upper East Side, a program called Manna celebrates Jewish culinary tradition
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Food Why the humble onion is the most Jewish allium of all
This versatile root vegetable has a cross-continental history in Jewish cuisine
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Opinion All the outrage over Julianna Margulies misses the point
The actor actually speaks for many Jews who feel abandoned by some of their onetime allies
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Food This year, Americans and Israelis will be consuming 390 million pounds of this beloved Jewish ingredient
Turns out there's a very good reason why the word 'honey' appears 55 times in the Hebrew Bible
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Food These bodaciously herbaceous Jewish ingredients just might make you cuckoo for kuku
Fresh herbs are essential to a scrumptious frittata-like Persian specialty
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Culture Everything you need to know about cheese for Shavuot (including how to make a killer cheesecake)
Why on this day of all other days are we encouraged to eat feta, cream cheese and various dairy desserts?
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Culture In the history of the artichoke, a history of Sephardic Jews
The glorious vegetable made its way from the Iberian Peninsula during the Inquisition to Sicily and then to the Jewish Ghetto of Rome
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