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Feed Your Olympic Fever With Brazil’s National Dish, Feijoada
Feijoada, one of Brazilian’s national dishes, is adored by rich and poor alike. It’s soul food: black beans and many kinds of pork meat stewed together in one pungent, satisfying dish. When I lived in Rio de Janeiro as a teenager, my mother’s cook would sometimes concoct a kosher rendition for us on a Sunday,…
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A Food Fest Devoted to Breakfast
You know that thing where you come up with a great idea and think, “I’m not going to do that, but somebody definitely should.” That’s how I feel about BreakFestival, a two-day breakfast extravaganza that will be held in New York City over Labor Day weekend. Whenever I start planning a party, my first instinct…
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Time Anoints First-Ever ‘Bacon Critic’ — and He’s Jewish
JTA — Among those who don’t keep kosher, few food items ignite passion the way bacon does. So when the website Extra Crispy announced in June that it was searching for a Bacon Critic — yes, with capital letters — some 1,500 eager pork lovers applied for their dream job. Given the fact that bacon is…
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Chocolate-Covered Jalapeños? It’s Not Bubbe’s Chocolate Anymore
When her new chocolate company needed a name, Sara Meyer and her husband, Corey, decided to connect it to his maternal grandmother — Faigele/Faigy/Fay, meaning little bird in Yiddish — and her love of chocolate. Both are memorialized in the name they came up with: Little Bird. While Fay usually kept several boxes of random…
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Forget Funnel Cakes! Deep-Fried Matzo Balls Coming to NY State Fair
Kosher-observant Jews will, for the first time ever, be able to buy food at the New York State Fair this summer. And not just any food, but deep-fried matzo balls with ranch dressing. According to Syracuse.com, The Oaks at Menorah Park in Syracuse will be the first certified kosher food vendor at the fair, held…
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Move Over, Ottolenghi?
There’s a new Israeli in town. We’re a little late to Strut & Cluck, which opened in June. But London’s newest Israeli-inspired restaurant has been getting such ravesthat we wanted to give it a shout-out. Chef Amir Chen’s turkey-centric menu includes harissa-coated wings, halloumi salad, meat-free koftas and “pita balagan” — an anything-goes, daily-changing concoction….
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Stop Carping — ‘Gefilte Manifesto’ Coming Soon
You can finally pre-order “The Gefilteria Manifesto,” the much-anticipated debut cookbook from Gefilteria founders Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz, out next month. Our favorite gefilte fish revolutionaries “revitalize beloved old-world foods with ingenious new approaches,” says their publisher. Much more to come. Michael Kaminer is a contributing editor at the Forward.
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Jewish Gelato in Philly and More Cool Dish
Philadelphia chef Stephanie Reitano of Capogiro Gelato Artisan has come out — as Jewish. The chef, whose gelato was named best in the world by National Geographic in 2011, revealed her roots to the Jewish Exponent as she shared a pickle recipe. “My father, Michael Feldman, was a New York deli maven. He was all…
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Watermelon Salad With Black Olives And Basil
As much as I love the now-classic watermelon salad — the ones with the feta and mint — I thought it was time for a change. In this dairy-free version, oil-cured olives provide the saltiness usually imparted by the cheese, and basil (try Thai basil, if you can find it) subs in for the mint….
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Recipes Exploring ‘The Book of Lost Recipes’
It’s telling that the first thing you notice when you open “The Book of Lost Recipes: The Best Signature Dishes From Historic Restaurants Rediscovered,” by Jaya Saxena (Page Street Publishing Co.), is that it’s dedicated not only to the author’s parents, but also to someone named Matt (whom we can only presume is her partner)…
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Recipes A ‘Lost’ Chopped Liver Recipe, Found
In ‘The Book of Lost Recipes’, Gary Craig says that Jewish celebrities would come all the way “from uptown” for the restaurant’s chopped liver, which is made with beef liver rather than the traditional chicken liver. This gives it a richness most recipes lack, while the eggs keep it mousse-like in texture. Related Serves 6-8…
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