Eat, Drink & Think is your daily destination for recipes, restaurant news, holiday menus and great food journalism — all through a Jewish lens. From the traditional to the cutting edge, we explore the worldwide Jewish culinary landscape and bring…
Food
-
5 Halloween-Candy Alternatives Kids Will Hate More Than Raisins
They may have been a hit when the kiddies were still in strollers — when they picked them out of those little red boxes with sticky fingers. If raisins are received while trick-or-treating, however, they will most likely be used as tiny projectiles — ones that are more likely to be thrown at you than…
-
Recipes Challah If You’re A Pumpkin-Spice Hater!
Confession time: Until a few days ago, I had never made challah. I realize this isn’t entirely anomalous among the general Jewish population (though challah-making certainly does seem to be a growing trend). But as the food editor of the Forward, this just felt like something I should know how to do. And so, upon…
-
John Besh, Restaurant King Who Fired Alon Shaya, Steps Down Amid Sex Harassment Claims
This is huge, and I almost missed it. While out of the office today, soaking up all sorts of incredible ideas about food activism at the annual James Beard Food Summit, I got a text from the office that we were posting a piece about Alon Shaya, the James Beard Award-winning wunderkind chef who brought…
The Latest
-
Crown Heights Asserts Its Place As King Of Kashrut
There are some places you’ll almost never find a secular Jew at. Shabbat services. A Richard Spencer rally. NASCAR. The Orthodox section of Crown Heights? Oh, most certainly not. What’s there to like — Chabadniks recruiting you to the yeshivah? A constant sense of aesthetic displacement? Food that way too closely resembles your great-grandmother’s chopped…
-
Recipes 11 Savory Stews For Cozy Fall Cooking
Nothing says cozy like a simmering pot of delicious, aromatic stew. Here’s a roundup of some of our favorites, which run the gamut from meaty braises to hearty cholents to satisfying vegetarian meals. Red-Meat Meals Chicken Concoctions Meatless One-Pot Meals Liza Schoenfein is food editor at the Forward. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter,…
-
A Classic Jewish Cookie Gets A Halloween Makeover
Photograph by Liza Schoenfein Today’s the day to get your black and orange on — and that includes food. You want to be festive, but you may not want to overindulge completely. Get ready to kill two birds with one two-toned stone. Well, at least with one two-toned cookie. I give you my recipe for…
-
$1,000 For A Bagel? Yes — But Will Anybody Bite?
Next time you kvetch about the cost of your daily bagel, consider this: A Manhattan hotel is offering a $1,000 bagel whose “schmear” includes truffles and superfoods. The world’s most expensive bread will grace the menu at the Westin New York at Times Square from November 1 to December 15. It’s actually the $1,000 bagel’s…
-
How Wildfires Tested Kosher Winemakers’ Craft — And Faith
On Sukkot, Jews build huts to recall their voyage through the desert, to remember how vulnerable they were, and still are — though we may try to pretend otherwise. For the only two kosher vintners of Northern California wine country, there is no denying the frightening reality. They received a horrific, present-day reminder of our…
-
Experience Crown Heights’ Vibrant Kosher Food Scene At This Sunday’s Food Crawl
Food crawls are a great way for tourists and locals alike to experience a city or neighborhood’s unique subculture in all its gastronomic glory, especially in a vibrant foodie community like Chinatown or Little Italy. Crown Heights has had a kosher-food revolution in recent years — with gourmet restaurants representing all kinds of flavors and…
-
‘Kosher Pizza Wars’ Restaurant Regroups With New Chef And Improved Menu
Yesterday, Basil Pizza and Wine Bar — a Crown Heights-based kosher dairy hotspot — was closed for business. But only temporarily. According to a report from hyperlocal news site, COLlive, Basil is undergoing a remodel of sorts. It will reopen on Wednesday, October 18, with both a new chef and a new menu. The owners…
-
Books Everything You Need To Know About Jews And Chocolate Is In This Book
When one of my sons (I won’t say which, to protect his anonymity) was small, if asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, his answer was always the same: an astronaut, a chef and a daddy. I wonder how many people, asked that very question, would answer “a rabbi and a chocolate…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Film & TV The new ‘Superman’ is being called anti-Israel, but does that make it pro-Palestine?
- 2
Fast Forward Tucker Carlson calls for stripping citizenship from Americans who served in the Israeli army
- 3
Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
- 4
Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture In ‘Guns & Moses,’ an Orthodox rabbi packs heat — no questions asked
-
Opinion How I got AI to create fake Nazi memos — and what that means for the future of antisemitism
-
Fast Forward How the Jewish commandment to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ could help a woman challenge Kentucky’s abortion ban in court
-
Yiddish ווידעאָ: יוטוב־פּערזענלעכקייט רעדט אויף ייִדיש וועגן אַ משפּחה־טראַגעדיעVIDEO: Youtube personality speaks in Yiddish about a tragedy in the family
מאַטי מענדלאָוויטשעס ברודער, וואָס האָט יאָרן לאַנג געליטן פֿון דעפּרעסיע, האָט הײַיאָר זיך גענומען דאָס לעבן. .
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
