Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food Josh’s Deli Is The Most Non-Kosher Jewish Deli Ever
Happy holidays from my lil fam to yours. #fakedelicheer #butforrealhappiness A post shared by josh (@joshsdeli) on Dec 24, 2017 at 4:57pm PST Josh’s Deli, run by Josh Marcus, offers a spin on traditional Jewish deli food. It’s located in the Orthodox area of Surfside, Miami, surrounded by Jews who don’t mix milk and meat…
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Food How We Ate In The 60s
Cookbooks are sorts of time capsules. Open one from a previous era, and comb through old recipes to find evidence of what the people who came before me cooked. So when I heard talk swirling around the interwebs of a cookbook dedicated to a decadent recreation of the 60’s, I was excited to scan the…
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The Schmooze Catherine Zeta-Jones Is Done Apologizing For Being Rich And Famous
She’s hot. She’s rich. She’s married to a successful, gorgeous hot rich Jewish man. She’s talented. She’s Old Hollywood. And Catherine Zeta-Jones just about done apologizing for it. In an open conversation with the Daily Mirror, Zeta-Jones let go of some baggage she’d been carrying around for a while. “One thing I’m not is humble…
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Food Anissa Helou Traveled The World, Searching For The Flavors Of Islam
“Her range of knowledge and unparalleled authority make her just the kind of cook you want by your side when baking a Moroccan flatbread, preparing an Indonesian satay and anything else along the way.”— Yotam Ottolenghi Anissa Helou’s new book “Feast: Food Of The Islamic World” seeks to cover the depth and breadth of the…
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Food Jonathan Safran Foer and Natalie Portman Get Real About Veganism
Jonathan Safran Foer’s seminal work “Eating Animals” has a reputation that precedes it. “It’ll turn you into a vegan,” I was warned, repeatedly, when I started reading it. “It turned Natalie Portman into a vegan.” While “Eating Animals” ultimately held less sway over me than a schnitzel baguette does, the book certainly made me feel…
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Food Synagogues Are Going Vegan. Is Tofu Cholent The Future Of Kiddush?
The Synagogue Vegan Challenge was simple. Five synagogues. $25,000, distributed equally between them. A commitment to giving a year’s worth of vegan programming. Funding was provided by VegFund, a program that provides grants vegan activists of all sorts. The money, as per the Q&A on the site, is designated only for the purchasing of vegan…
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Food Making Recycling A Norm In The Religious Community
ReJews is a nonprofit organization that bills itself as the face of recycling in the Jewish world. Environmental consciousness is rarely seen as a uniquely Jewish concern, sidelined for the more flashy causes of Arab-Israeli coexistence, religious rights, concerns about assimilation and the like. But recycling is important, according to Henry Goodelman, ReJews founder, and…
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Food What We Talk About When We Talk About Baconnaise
What is baconnaise? I first began hearing the name bandied around when I began research on bacon substitutes. I heard whispers of it in restaurant bathrooms and in anonymous comment forums dedicated to the goings on of the kosher world. I had to know more about this mysterious substance, this bacon-flavored yet bacon-less mayonnaise, this…
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