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Get Totally Baked With Weed-Filled Hamantaschen
Elevate your Purim experience with sea salted canna-caramel hamantaschen. Note that to do this right you will need a candy thermometer to make the caramel. Prep Time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 18 minutes + 15 minutes for the caramel Idle time: 3 hours to chill dough + 1 hour to chill pre-baked hamentaschen Approximate dosage:…
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Bagel + Sushi? An Unexpected Match
We love bagels. We love sushi. Who doesn’t? So when we heard that Uma Temakeria, the inventor of the sushi burrito, is creating — for a limited time only — a BAGEL-inspired temaki (hand) roll, we kvelled. Chef Chris Jaeckle of Uma Temakeria will be incorporating beet-cured smoked salmon from Black Seed Bagels into a…
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My Trader Joe’s Love Affair
Perusing the aisles of a grocery store has always meant more to me than simply stocking my kitchen with essentials for the week. It was never a basic experience for me (milk: check; eggs: check; yogurt: check; vegetables: check). Rather, when you have a strong appreciation for ingredients, as I do, your grocery store trips…
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5 Amazing Trader Joe’s Products That Happen To Be Kosher
With their ridiculously low prices, generous return policy and a stock of organic produce and cruelty-free eggs that puts Whole Foods to shame, Trader Joe’s is a foodie paradise. But it’s also a kosher foodie paradise — a place where many products, including the Trader Joe’s-branded products that make up most of the store, are,…
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Fat Tuesday Our Way — The Best Jewish Food In New Orleans
Until Alon Shaya opened his amazing James Beard-award-winning Israeli restaurant in New Orleans, the city didn’t register as a place to go for Jewish food. But it turns out that Shaya is far from the only eatery offering excellent Jewish cuisine, whether Israeli or of the deli variety. Jews have been living in New Orleans…
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Celiac Scientist Opens Gluten-Free Bakery
While a new Israeli-owned bakery in San Francisco has customers who keep kosher jumping for joy at its offerings, another recently opened Israeli-owned bakery is making a different subset of those with restricted diets quite happy. Its name is Glütless, and it serves the gluten-free. A long overdue diagnosis of celiac disease propelled Golan Yona…
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Grateful Bread — New Israeli-Kosher Bakery Gets Warm Welcome In San Francisco
On December 25, 2016, the first day of Hanukkah, Maureen Krantz and her family made a special trip into the city from their home in Berkeley just to try the Israeli-style sufganiyot at Frena, San Francisco’s highly anticipated new kosher bakery. “We had been hearing about it for weeks,” said Krantz, who is director of…
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How Cotton Entered The Food Supply
In 2015, some 50 years after concerns were first raised about a possible link between trans fats and heart attacks, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that partially hydrogenated oils, the primary source of trans fats in processed foods, are no longer “generally recognized as safe” in human food. This action is expected…
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What A Locavore Chef Learned From His Bubbe
Michael Kaphan’s bubbe helped get him into the New Yorker. No, she’s not his publicist. But Kaphan, chef-owner of recently opened Gramercy Farmer & the Fish in Manhattan, features her chopped liver recipe on his farm-to-table menu. “Sautéed in chicken fat and mixed with herbs and hard-boiled egg white, it’s luxuriant enough to be the…
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The Queen Of Beers For Purim? Catch Her If You Can
I never really gave much thought to beer in Israel. Recently, however, I did some reading, and here’s what I discovered. According to the Biblical Archaeology Society: “Ancient Israelites proudly drank beer…and lots of it. Men, women and even children of all social classes drank it…Even Yahweh, according to the Hebrew Bible, consumed at least…
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A Splendid Syrah
When I visit food and wine shows, where vintners and producers present their products to the market, my first question is, “What’s new?” For wineries, the answer is usually nothing more groundbreaking than the latest vintage or a new blend. But when I approached Covenant Winery’s Jeff and Jodie Morgan at the recent Kosher Food…
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