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Taste Testing ‘Israel Eats’
This is a sporadic column in which the writer evaluates a new cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing them with friends and asking her guests what they think of the results. She recently cooked her way through “Israel Eats” by Steven Rothfeld with Nancy Silverton (Gibbs Smith). A food photographer in his mid…
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Recipes Spinach and Feta Arayes
If you are lucky in life, you will find a dish that everyone in your family loves, and whenever you suggest making it, they will enthusiastically agree. This has become that recipe in my family. Related Taste Testing ‘Israel Eats’ Date Honey and Tahini Semifreddi With Cashew Brittle Photographer Sinks His Teeth Into Israeli Food…
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Four Seasons Restaurant’s Jewish Soul
There are several Jewish connections to the relocation story of New York’s legendary Four Seasons restaurant, whose long run in its iconic midtown space will end July 19. More of This Week’s Food News Wexler’s Spreading Lox Love in L.A. Shuka Truck Really Gets Around! Reubens in Berlin and All the Week’s Food News As…
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Wexler’s Deli Spreads Lox Love in Los Angeles
Houston may have Ziggy Gruber, but Los Angeles has its own Deli Man — Micah Wexler, dubbed “the Seth Rogen of chefs” by our own Leah Koenig. More of This Week’s Food News Four Season’s Restaurant’s Jewish Soul Shuka Truck Really Gets Around! Reubens in Berlin and All the Week’s Food News Now, two years…
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Shuka Truck Really Gets Around!
We’ll leave it to you to judge whether this is good use of taxpayer shekels. But the Israeli embassy in Bogota reportedly flew down New York’s Shuka Truck — yes, the whole truck — to serve shakshuka on Yom Haaztmaut. The truck normally roams Big Apple streets. More of This Week’s Food News Four Season’s…
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Reubens in Berlin and the Week’s Hottest Food News
Newish Jewish deli Louis Pretty gets a shout-out in Travel + Leisure this month as part of a rocking food scene in Berlin. The Kreuzberg eatery’s “German interpretations of American Jewish deli food” like Reubens and matzo-ball soup “typifies Berlin’s current global outlook,” the mag says. If anyone’s tried it, Dish would love to hear…
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Recipes How I Turned Blintzes on Shavuot Into Little Packages of Love for Dad
My ad man dad was never a morning person. He said that when he slept, his best ideas came to him — including his award-winning slogans for “Leggo My Eggo,” “Soup is Good Food” and “Coke is It.” On the weekends, my little sister April and I knew the only way to awake my father…
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Recipes 15 Fabulous Vegetarian Dairy Recipes for Shavuot
Breakfast Rosemary-Ricotta Blintzes With Strawberry-Rhubarb Sauce Deb Perlman’s Magical Blintzes Cheese Levivot Pancakes Corn and Eggplant Pashtida Lunch/Dinner Cold Yogurt Soup With Cucumbers, Herbs and Rose Petals Cold Sour Cherry Soup Labneh With Tomatoes, Pesto and Tapenade Spinach and Feta Bourekas Gnocchi di Semolino alla Romana (Farina Dumplings Roman Style) Kale and Mushroom Quinoa Mac…
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Recipes Taste Testing ‘100 Best Jewish Recipes’
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 “100 Best Jewish Recipes: Traditional and Contemporary Kosher Cuisine From Around the World,” by Evelyn…
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Recipes Avocado and Egg Pâté
A favorite Israeli appetizer, this dip can be served with chips, crackers or challah. Serves 4 as an appetizer, 6 as a dip Keeps for 2 days in the fridge | do not freeze Related Taste Testing ‘100 Best Jewish Recipes’ Easy Apple Crisp ½ large bunch of parsley ½ small bunch of scallions 2…
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Recipes Easy Apple Crisp
This recipe is simple to make, uncomplicated in flavor and utterly delicious to eat. It works equally well with pitted plums, or a combination of plums and apples. Serves 6 Keeps for 3 days in the fridge | freezes for 3 months Related [Taste Testing ‘100 Best Jewish Recipes’ (https://forward.com/food/340937/taste-testing-100-best-jewish-recipes/) Avocado and Egg Pâté 4…
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