Molly Yeh
By Molly Yeh
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Recipes Red Velvet Macaroon Cake Is for Lovers
There is a sad truth about Passover: Its dessert always falls short. Hanukkah has donuts, Purim has hamantaschen and Rosh Hashanah has honey cake. Poor Passover has no signature sweet. Perhaps you’ve put in the extra effort to make a kosher for Passover cake for your Seders past, but if you’re like me, you’ve never…
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Recipes Move Over Elijah! Julia Child Is Coming to Seder
Your bread may be swept away, the table set and macaroons purchased, but it really isn’t Passover until the aroma of brisket fills the house. On a holiday without freshly baked challah, no other scent compares to the nostalgic smell of slow cooked tender meat atop a bed of vegetables or nestled into a thick…
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Food Is Schnitzel the New Falafel?
After three years of slinging their creative takes on Israeli schnitzel at Brooklyn food fair Smorgasburg, SchnitzNYC has finally gone brick and mortar. The owners and siblings Donna and Yoni Erlich, are offering new twists on the classic scnitzel at their new spot in the East Village. Their Israeli schnitzel, which is slightly thicker than…
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Food Hamantaschen Get a Makeover
photos by Molly Yeh When I was a kid, hamantaschen came in two varieties: poppyseed (what the sophisticated grown-ups ate) and fruit. It didn’t matter what kind of fruit, it all tasted the same — overly sweet and sticky, and most importantly, difficult to scrape out with a spoon in order to get to the…
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Recipes Chickpea Pizza With Harissa And Spinach
Makes two personal pizzas 1 cup chickpea flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt a few cracks of black pepper 1 cup water olive oil, to coat the pan About 2 tablespoons harissa* (this amount may vary depending on your taste and how hot your harissa is) 1/2 large onion, chopped and caramelized…
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Food When Pizza Goes Middle Eastern
Photos by Molly Yeh I am the child of two very strong pizza traditions. A pizza mutt, if you will. Growing up outside of Chicago, pizza night meant ordering delivery of my beloved deep dish. When I lived in New York, pizza night meant a greasy folded slice at the little old place where the…
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Recipes Za’atar Chicken Fit for a Valentine’s Shabbat
Photos by Molly Yeh I love a good fried chicken. I love schnitzel, I love katsu, I love anything fatty and breaded and crispy. If my Valentine presented me with a heart-shaped schnitzel on the 14th, I think I’d propose right then and there. The problem is, I also love feeling good and fitting into…
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Food Molly on the Range: Tu B’Shvat Tart
Five months ago I moved from downtown Brooklyn to a farm in a small town on the border of North Dakota and Minnesota, population approximately four Jews (read: not enough Jews to support a local deli or even a Zomick’s presence at the town Target). Having lived in or near a city for my entire…
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