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Molly’s Chocolate Tahini Cake
Not many things in life are better than a rich, moist chocolate cake covered in buttercream and doled out with birthday songs and birthday wishes. But as my old timpani teacher used to say, “If it ain’t broke, fix it anyway.” Chocolate cake, meet tahini. Chocolate cake and tahini go together fantastically, but not like…
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Recipes Grandma Beauty’s Recipe for a Delicious Rosh Hashanah
Growing up, I always looked forward to the Jewish holidays, even though my family was not very religious. Those were pretty much the only times we had real food in our house. During the holidays, my mom and I would cook together to recreate my grandmother’s classic old-world recipes — chicken soup, brisket, salmon patties…
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Recipes Chicken Soup With a Kick
Chicken soup, known as “Jewish penicillin,” is an essential recipe for all grandmothers and mothers to have in their bag of tricks. It’s delicious, and bone broth is touted for its restorative powers. I used to look forward to preparing this sweet soup with my grandmother Beauty as a kid, and now as a mom…
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Recipes 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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