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Creamy White Bean Soup
There’s nothing like warm, healthy, creamy soup on a chilly fall night. This creamy bean soup feels so luxurious and indulgent but is not loaded with fat and calories. Blending the white beans make the soup feel much richer than it really is. So nice on a cool fall day. Related Creamy White Bean Soup…
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Recipes Kale Salad With Candied Almonds and Apples
Kale salad adds a pop of seasonal freshness to your Sukkot meal. The recipe below is one of my favorites from my new cookbook,“Great Meals with Greens and Grains”. The flavors work incredibly well together — sweet, savory, crunchy, crisp. Just perfectly delicious and balanced. Kale Salad with Candied Almonds, Apples and Maple Dressing Serves…
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Taste Testing ‘Forest Feast Gatherings’ for Sukkot
This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a new cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking her guests what they think of the results. She recently cooked her way through “The Forest Feast Gatherings: Simple Vegetarian Menus for Hosting Friends & Family” (Abrams) by Erin…
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Recipes Za’atar Roasted Carrots
1) Trim the tops off 2 pounds medium carrots, leaving just a bit (2–3 carrots per person). 2) Lay carrots out on a baking sheet and drizzle generously with olive oil (about 3 tablespoons) and 1 tablespoon za’atar. Roll carrots with your fingers to coat well. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and red pepper flakes, then…
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Recipes Pear-Thyme Galettes
Makes 2 2 (8 by 8-inch) puff pastry sheets (from a 17-ounce box) ¼ cup fig jam 2–3 pears, thinly sliced (no need to peel) 3 tablespoons chopped raw walnuts 2 tablespoons crumbled Gorgonzola cheese 2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves 2 teaspoons melted butter mixed with 2 teaspoons honey 1) Lay the puff pastry sheets…
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BDS and Anti-Semitism Shutter Israeli Restaurant in Munich
Did Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) put a Jewish eatery out of business in Germany? The Jewish owner of Munich’s Schmock Israeli restaurant announced he’s closing after 16 years because of rising anti-Semitism — and strong anti-Israel sentiment — in the Bavarian capital. Florian Gleibs even placed a large sign in Schmock’s window reading: “We are…
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Recipes Fig and Pumpkin Bread Pudding for Sukkot Breakfast
Unlike Hanukkah’s potato latkes and sufganiyot or Purim’s hamantaschen, there aren’t a lot of specific foods that come along with celebrating Sukkot. Instead, Sukkot is the Jewish calendar’s poster child for seasonal eating. The holiday’s meals highlight the abundance of produce that early autumn brings: crisp apples and creamy squash, slick and heavy eggplants, sweet…
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‘JewBoy’ Burgers in Texas
JewBoy was Mo Pittle’s nickname growing up in El Paso, Texas — it was a Semitic spin on “homeboy.” Now, he’s embraced it with JewBoy Burgers, his new food truck in Austin. Look for Jewish-Latino mashups like the The Oy Vey Guey Burger, with Jack cheese, green chilies and jalapenos, and the Goyim, a bacon-and-grilled-pastrami…
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White-Hot Tel Aviv Dining Scene Gets Its Due
Tel Aviv’s white-hot food scene has long been on the radar of Forward readers, and word’s getting out big-time to the rest of the world. The Wall Street Journal just featured an ode to Tel Aviv restaurants including Halutzim 3, Yaffo Tel Aviv and Mizlala. A few days later, The Washington Post waxed rhapsodic about…
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Beloved Denver Deli Set for Grand Reopening
Denver’s beloved Rosenberg’s Bagels and Delicatessen will finally reopen on October 16, five months after a devastating fire shuttered the business. “It is true,” owner Joshua Pollack told the Denver Post. “It’s going to feel so good to be back in our home.” Forward readers might remember Rosenberg’s as the place that pioneered marijuana-infused smoked…
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NYers Told to #NoshTheVote
Some inalienable rights with that falafel? In what we think is a first-ever pairing of voting rights and food, the City of New York this week launched a campaign enlisting food trucks and street carts to distribute voter-registration forms. Related #NoshtheVote was created in partnership with the Urban Justice Center’s Street Vendor Project. Friday October…
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