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Duck Lardon Salad
A riff on the bistro classic seen in most French restaurants, we’ve substituted our duck bacon for the pork lardons. The smoky duck fat and rich egg yolk create a sinfully good dressing for this relatively light salad. Recipe by Julia Jaksic Yields 2 salads 1 smoked duck breast (see Duck Bacon recipe), unsliced 2…
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Recipes Syrian Meatballs (Keftes Garaz) With Cherries And Tamarind
One of the great gifts of the Syrian Jews to gastronomy is this meatball dish. Flavored with tamarind sauce [see “What Is Tamarind” below] and dried and frozen sour cherries, this sweet and sour keftes meatball recipe has been handed down for five generations in the family of Melanie Franco Nussdorf, a Washington lawyer who…
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Recipes Steamed White Fish With Cardoons And Lemon In Parchment
New Cookbook: “The Book Of Greens” by Shannon Sarna New Food: Cardoons Cooking en papillote, which is steaming in parchment paper, is one of the simplest, clean methods around, and it is especially great for cooking fish. It is pretty fail-safe in terms of overcooking; and it imparts flavors and moisture wonderfully. You basically pile…
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Recipes Gorgeous Apple Galette From Star Chef Alon Shaya For Rosh Hashanah
Chef Alon Shaya has won pretty much every culinary plaudit possible for bringing his gorgeously elevated take on Israeli cuisine to New Orleans. At his award-winning restaurant Shaya at the High Holidays, he can be relied upon to create a Rosh Hashanah menu that incorporates holiday symbolism with Middle Eastern flavors and fresh local ingredients….
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How A Mumbai Cook Prepares For Rosh Hashanah
This is part one of a two-part series. On the morning of [Rosh Hashanah](https://forward.com/schmooze/320610/rosh-hashana/ “Rosh Hashanah”) Eve 2016, I met Sharona Hayeems, a local Indian Jewish caterer, at her home in Dadar, a neighborhood in Mumbai where some of the remaining 4,500 Indian Jews in India still live. I was there to spend some time…
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WATCH: How To Make Chicken Fricassee And Rice With Apples
This video by Yiddish Forverts editor-in-chief Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. I love to watch Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz create classic Jewish dishes, taking us through the recipes step by step in Yiddish (with English subtitles). The way they cook and the foods they prepare take me right…
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Recipes A Marvelous Indian-Jewish Sweet Custard For Rosh Hashanah
Halwa is a traditional Indian milk custard made by the Bene Israel Indian Jews in Mumbai for Rosh Hashanah. This recipe is an adaptation by the author’s mom, who now lives in Israel. In India halwa is made with “chick,” a wheat gluten, but in Israel, a majority of the community is using cornstarch as…
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Chocolate + Honey = Rosh Hashanah Perfection
True chocolate lovers like me have long bemoaned the dearth of chocolates that properly symbolized a sweet New Year. Indeed honey and chocolate always seemed to keep a healthy distance from one another. This year — finally! — Rosh Hashanah’s traditional honey meets chocolate for the High Holidays in the form of several new goodies….
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5 Ways To Match Your Clothes To Your Rosh Hashanah Dishes
Are you the kind of person who insists on matching the polish on your fingernails to your toenails? Does the idea of print mixing stress you out? Do you ascribe to arcane style rules like matching your bag to your shoe? Well, luckily for all you anal-retentive ladies, I have a proposal that will blow…
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The Best Bagels In New York
Here are the nominees for Forward Food Choice Award for best bagels in New York City. Learn more about the awards and vote for your favorites here. Absolute Bagels People kvetch about the lines. They kvetch about sullen counter help. They kvetch about the blah space. But all kvetching stops once bagel meets mouth. Exceptionally…
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How To Help Chop Hunger
Two years ago I had the pleasure of judging the Chop Hunger cooking competition, an annual event that raises money for the Masbia Soup Kitchen Network. The culinary contest is great fun, complete with celebrity chefs and mystery ingredients a la the Food Network’s popular cooking show “Chopped.” The competition is taking place once again,…
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