Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food Insomnia Cookies Are Now Kosher — At One Store
A mainstay of the collegiate world, Insomnia Cookies is a chain of United States bakeries that specializes in delivering warm cookies until 3 am. The chain is the brainchild of a Seth Berkowitz, who was a University of Pennsylvania student at the time, who began baking and delivering cookies to students on campus late at…
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Food Was Jesus A Vegetarian — Along With An Ancient Jewish Sect?
When it comes to the history of vegetarianism, Jews have been swearing off meat for a very long time. “See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food,” it is written in Genesis 1:29. Many scholars take this…
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Food Chef Tamar Adler Divulges Why She Doesn’t Take Pictures Of Her Food
It’s a commonly held belief that what we eat tells us a lot about who we are. But what about the bygone foods of yore? Tamar Adler is a Chez Panisse alum, veteran food writer and researcher – and a custodian of forgotten recipes. In her new book, Something Old, Something New, which like her…
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Food Pickle-Flavored Ice Cream? It’s Hot!
Pregnant women may find themselves overjoyed at the idea of the two most common cravings — pickles and ice cream — combined. Head to the Upper West Side’s Lucky Pickle Dumpling Co., where you can get a pickle flavored soft-serve ice cream for a mere $5 if you’re feeling adventurous. The restaurant itself is a…
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Food Nigella Lawson Opens Up About Cooking As A Feminist
Nigella Lawson is flawless. She has a cooking show and her own line of cookware. Her new cookbook At My Table: A Celebration Of Home Cooking is a cozy glimpse into the friendly, reassuring world of home cooking. Angelina Jolie was going to play her in a movie. Blood, Bones and Butter is one of…
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Food The Jewish Side Of Freds at Barney’s — Michael Cohen’s Favorite Lunch Spot
In one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the world, lives one of the most expensive stores in the world, and inside that store lives one of the most beloved restaurants in the world. I’m speaking of course about the Upper East Side, about Barney’s, and about Freds. Because when we talk about Barneys, we…
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Food Breads Bakery Rolls Out A New Line Of Cheesecakes In Time For Shavuot
I won’t mince words here: Cheesecake is the pinnacle of human creation. We can thank Greece for the splendid innovation of the cheesecake, but these days it seems like Jews are at work crafting the most scrumptious cheesecake. May is the holiday when the sun removes its winter hat, when flowers poke their heads above…
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Food Masala Mamas: An Indian Cookbook For The Kosher Home
If you ask any of the women in the Kulwa slum how old they are, chances are they’ll shrug their shoulders. These women did not receive enough math education to calculate their ages. Living in a slum, often without running water or electricity, where sewage sluiced through the villages, scarcely conscious of the passage of…
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