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Wine That Sparkles for the Festival of Lights
Jewish cuisine in America is at a high point, as chefs and culinary entrepreneurs across the country enthusiastically deconstruct, reinvent and elevate classic Jewish food. Parallel to this, we are in the midst of an Israeli wine revolution. Wineries in Israel, to global recognition, are honing their skills and harnessing the continuity of an ancient…
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Top Israeli Restaurant, Rama’s Kitchen, Burns to Ground in Wildfires
An iconic restaurant in the Judean Hills burned to the ground on Friday, a victim of wildfires that have been ragiing across a large swathe of Israel since early this week. Related Rama’s Kichen, the 20-year-old restaurant in Nataf owned by Rama Ben Zvi and her family, was [featured] in Roger Sherman’s film In Search…
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‘No Locks, Yes Lox’ Sign Makes Brooklyn Bridge Even More Jewish
New York City’s Department of Transportation does not want you leaving locks on the Brooklyn Bridge. But eating a big bagel with lox and cream cheese? That is strongly encouraged. A new sign that popped up on the heavily trafficked bridge in October, complete with a bagel image, reads “NO LOCKS YES LOX.” As explained…
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Recipes How to Cook Weed-Laced Jewish Classics at Home
If the idea of lacing traditional Jewish foods — gefilte fish, challah, matzo balls, latkes and kugel — with marijuana makes you wince, then skip right over this. But if reading about what certainly must be the first cookbook to feature such dishes piques your interest, read on. All of these Jewish classics and more…
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Welcome to Pot Shabbat
Definitely not your bubbe’s matzo balls; these have THC in them. On a recent Friday night in the San Francisco Bay Area, seven 30- and 40-somethings gathered in a cozy home for Shabbat dinner. They lit candles, chanted Kiddish and ritually washed their hands before ha-motzi, the prayer over the bread. But the first bite…
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Baking for Kindness, and Fighting Kids’ Cancer
Continued From Part I: How to Start a Kindness Revolution — With Cookies Earlier, Greenspan had provided me with some background on her connection with the non-profit that raises funds for research into cures for pediatric cancer. She has known co-founder Gretchen Witt for years, before Witt was married and had a son Liam, and…
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Recipes How to Start a Kindness Revolution — With Cookies
My late grandmother used to keep a package of store-bought cookies in the glove compartment of her car. Whenever she drove through a tollbooth or stopped to fill up her tank, she’d offer the attendant a cookie, or three. I have no doubt that she’d have been friends with four-time James Beard Award-winning cookbook author…
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Recipes Marvelous Multigrain Chocolate Chip Cookies From Dorie
My friend Kerrin Rousset has a wonderful, quirky way with food, mixing ingredients that you wouldn’t expect to be culinary classmates and always sneaking a smidgen of healthfulness into every tasty thing she makes. Here she found a way to use whole wheat and buckwheat flours, and I found a way to use kasha. An…
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Meet the Jewish Turkey King of Texas
Around Thanksgiving, Greenberg Smoked Turkey of Tyler, Texas, ships more than 10,000 birds around the world. So who’s this Greenberg? According to the St. Louis Jewish Light, Samuel Greenberg was a Polish immigrant who settled in Texas more than a century ago and smoked birds using his grandmother’s recipe. The company still follows it. After…
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Tila Tequila Dinner Spurs Apology from DC Restaurant
I honestly can’t believe that on the same day that I posted an article about a Portuguese restaurant that was vandalized by “activists” who apparently opposed the chef’s recent trip to Israel for a food festival, I now have to report that a DC-area Italian restaurant just issued an apology for inadvertently hosting a white…
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Going Fast! Top Kosher Spots Still Have Tables for Thanksgiving Dinner
It’s not too late for a Thanksgiving-eve dinner reservation. Some top kosher spots are stepping up to the plate if your holiday includes a night off from the kitchen. Abigael’s in Manhattan will feature a classic turkey roulade and autumn harvest salad as part of its extensive holiday menu. At Reserve Cut, the pricy Wall…
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