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Easy, Awesome Greek Chicken Kabobs
A pretty and palette-pleasing way to make your chicken look as good as your beef at your next barbecue. 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts cut into ½-inch chunks 1 tablespoon olive oil Zest and juice of 1 lemon 1 teaspoon dried oregano 10 grape or cherry tomatoes 1 small red onion, cut into 10½-inch chunks…
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Recipes Best BBQ’d Beef Satay
Food on a stick is fun for the whole fam. Both kid-friendly and adult-friendly, there’s nothin’ better than pleasing the entire crowd at once. Yield: 32 skewers, 8 servings Cooking spray 1 pound boneless rib-eye steak, cut into 32 (¼-inch) slices 1 teaspoon Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper ½ cup spicy brown mustard 1…
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How A Korean-Jewish Entrepreneur Uses Food To Empower Immigrants
(JTA) — Several times a month Jeanette Chawki welcomes a handful of strangers into her Brooklyn home. There, the visitors learn about life in her native Lebanon, talk about their own backgrounds, and eat food — lots of it. Among the dishes visitors tried on a recent Saturday include freshly baked cheese-stuffed bread, tangy labneh…
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The New Gourmet Chocolate — Everything You Need To Know
Wandering the aisles of the Specialty Food Association’s Summer Fancy Food Show at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, I visited as many chocolate vendors as possible — close to 30. Making my way from one delicious booth to the next, I noticed a trend of companies displaying multiple certifications and claims…
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How A Chinese-Jewish Chef In North Dakota Became A National Cooking Sensation
(JTA) — Not much could have prepared Molly Yeh for moving from New York City to Grand Forks, North Dakota — a city of a little over 50,000 residents near the state’s eastern border with Minnesota. At the time of her move in 2013, Yeh (pronounced “yay,” as her website explains with several exclamation points)…
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5 Sneaky Ways To Traffic Candy To Your Child In Camp
Sleepaway camps are great: The kids get to run around and be one with nature; while you, the parent, get to enjoy your summer free of kvetchy heat-stroke-afflicted children. But then, the Jewish guilt creeps in, and you begin to get anxious: Are they feeding my child enough? That feeling grows, especially as the letters…
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Trailblazing Kosher Chef Makes Meal Replacement New Mission
If anyone can make meal-replacement powders not only nutritious but also delicious, it is the pioneering celebrity kosher chef, cooking teacher and cookbook author Levana Kirschenbaum. The ebullient Moroccan-born Kirschenbaum, who co-owned Levana Restaurant on New York’s Upper West Side for over 30 years, has just released a new line of meal-replacement products that is…
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Facebook War Erupts After Popular Pizzeria Loses Kosher Certification
Last Sunday, the OK Kosher Certification agency removed certification from a Crown Heights gourmet pizza restaurant — one that had recently been involved in a separate drama. The restaurant, Basil, which sued a neighboring pizza restaurant in the local beit din, or rabbinical court, last winter, allegedly violated the terms of its certification agreement when a…
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Recipes Easy Chocolate Cake For The 4th From The First Jewish-American Cookbook
Chocolate was a Jewish immigrant food to the American Colonies, so you can build on those chocolatey Jewish roots when planning your 4th of July menu — starting with the Colonial Jewish-American Chocolate Cake recipe below. In many cases, the resilience of Sephardi immigrants was interwoven with that of chocolate, a New World food. Readily…
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Recipes 7 Vegan Recipes For Your Fourth Of July Barbecue
Hey, meat eaters! Is there a vegan in your life who’s got you muddled as you attempt to plan a holiday barbecue? Someone, perhaps, who preaches about tikkun olam and compassion for animals? You love them, but maybe not enough to give up your juicy, oil-dripping-from-your-mouth hamburger. And that’s okay — because you can have…
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Recipes A Gal’s Gotta Eat — 4 Top Chefs On Feeding Wonder Woman
The gorgeous and arresting Israeli actress Gal Gadot, who proved her mettle as a hand-to-hand combat instructor in the IDF, immediately establishes a commanding presence as the star of Wonder Woman. But we never see our superhero sit down for some sustenance — there’s just no time. But at some point, a gal’s gotta eat….
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