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Mimi’s Marvelous Honey Cake
An essential component of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, known generally as the Jewish New Year, a honey cake (lekach in Yiddish, derived from the German lecke, for “lick”) is meant to symbolize a sweet year ahead. Slices of apples dipped in honey, the other food tradition most associated with Rosh Hashanah, are served…
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Mimi’s Sweet Memories
My grandmother was a very young bride, and she had a Hungarian neighbor who taught her to cook. My grandmother was a marvelous cook and a marvelous baker. And she always made this wonderful honey cake. It gets very dark and rich, because of the boiled honey. She always made several cakes, because she had…
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Celebrity Chefs Compete Tonight and Needy Get the Prize
Tonight I’ll be a member of a live audience watching one of my favorite cooking competitions in the world — not “Chopped” on the Food Network (though I love that one to), but Chop Hunger, a “Chopped-style” competition that will raise money for Masbia Soup Kitchen Network. The event includes a tapas dinner, with wine,…
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Recipes Chicken Tagine for the Time Pressed
I’m not going to encourage you to whip this up on a work night. The prep takes about 45 minutes and is followed by 30 minutes of pressure-cooking time. But if you’re interested in making what tastes like a proper slow-cooked tagine — a spicy, complex North African-inspired stew with meat that’s moist and tender…
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The Chelsea Bombing: When a Kitchen Tool Becomes a Weapon
There are many deeply upsetting things about the Chelsea bomber, and one that I keep coming back to is that he made weaponry out of a kitchen tool. Anyone who has seen my favorite movie, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” knows that pressure cookers are dangerous. Do you remember the scene toward the end, where Holly gets…
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Fab Fried Tongue in Toronto
The fried tongue sandwich at People’s Eatery in Toronto is one of the city’s best, says Toronto Life magazine. It’s served simply, on a pretzel bun with French’s mustard. The Chinatown restaurant’s Jewish-Chinese menu stretches from latkes and “deli whitefish salad” to Peking duck and spicy General Tso Fu tofu. More of the Week’s Dish:…
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Shaya Bringing Kosher BBQ to South Beach
For one night, at least, kosher will once again star at the annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival, which just announced its 2017 lineup. More of the Week’s Dish: New Orleans chef Alon Shaya, whose namesake restaurant is a James Beard Award winner, will host “Burnt Ends,” a kosher barbecue dinner at Miami’s Chabad…
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Michael Twitty Takes Kosher Soul Food From Toronto to NYC
We had the pleasure of meeting kosher/soul maven Michael Twitty at Toronto’s Ashkenaz festival, where he was a panelist at a talk we moderated. Now, he’ll be joining other culinary stars at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage for a new talk: A Gefilte Gumbo: A delicious tale of Jewish, African-American and Southern flavors, on…
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Books A Memoir of Treyf Truthtelling
“There’s always more to all of us,” Elissa Altman explained to me over the phone when talking about the impetus for her second memoir, “Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw,” which is out next week. Altman — a cookbook editor, food writer and James Beard Foundation award-winning author of the blog Poor Man’s Feast…
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Recipes The Jewish Way to Nosh Through the Emmy Awards
You don’t have to let an awards show stand in the way of a haimish Sunday feast. Here are a few of our favorite festive finger foods to satisfy and delight family and friends during the Emmys. The show airs Sunday at 8 p.m. (ET) on ABC. To make an easy, excellent brisket (called for…
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With Fletchers, Montreal’s Bagel Scene Gets Bigger and Better
Two weeks ago, my family and I spent a week in the Laurentian mountains, an hour north of Montreal. We were there for a week-long Jewish music and culture festival called KlezKanada, which has become one of our favorite annual excursions. (Brisk dips in a gorgeous lake, the convergence of the world’s most renowned klezmer…
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