Eat, Drink & Think is your daily destination for recipes, restaurant news, holiday menus and great food journalism — all through a Jewish lens. From the traditional to the cutting edge, we explore the worldwide Jewish culinary landscape and bring…
Food
-
Recipes
Chocolate-Babka French Toast for Mom
It is hard to think of something more fitting to serve for Mother’s Day than babka. Named after the bubbes who baked them in Eastern Europe (babka translates to “grandmother’s loaf”), the brioche-tender, bread-cake hybrid, which comes swirled with chocolate or cinnamon, is the edible equivalent of maternal affection. Meanwhile, Mother’s Day celebrations tend to…
-
Recipes Chocolate Cake From the Mother of Jewish Chocolatiers
When we slather our mothers with chocolaty tributes on Mother’s Day, we will be stepping onto a chocolate trail pioneered by Jewish mothers before us, notably Rebecca Gomez of the 18th-Century Colonial Period. Related Gomez, along with her husband and son, had an appetite for the chocolate business in Manhattan. After the death of her…
-
Hungary Is Hungry for Jewish Food — and All the Dish
Anti-Semitism may be running rampant in Budapest, but so is a Jewish-food craze. At least that’s what Travel + Leisure discovers in its latest issue: “Jewish food — whether descended from the Mediterranean or the shtetl — is hugely popular right now… Food trucks serve knishes stuffed, oddly, with lamb, and serious restaurants, like Macesz…
The Latest
-
Exploring Israel Through Food, Film & Photography
Cooking is a creative outlet for me— as much about developing beautiful flavors, aromas, colors and textures as about getting dinner on the table. While I know it’s not like that for everyone, it seems to me that there’s a strong connection between art and food in general. Certainly many of my friends who are…
-
Celebrate Chametz With These Mind-Blowing Bagels
Passover ends at sundown this Saturday, which means the feasting on chametz is almost upon us. Which is why we decided to put together a list of delicious yeasty bagels for you to potentially stuff your face with once the chametz ban is over. 1) The Rainbow Bagel: The invention of Brooklyn bagel maven Scott…
-
Recipes Must-Make (Matzo-Free) Passover Desserts
Reuters — Every year, for the first few days of Passover, matzo seems somehow so new. A fat shmear of Temp-Tee ultra-whipped cream cheese and a tart and fruity jelly on top. Or soaked and fried into a matzo brei, crunchy with sugar and cinnamon. These are the foods of memory to me. But the…
-
Matzo, Elemental Bread of the Spirit
What’s so special about matzo? After all, it’s nothing more than flour and water baked to a cracker-like thinness. Not especially digestible either, especially after eating it as the default bread for the entire week of Passover when chametz (leavened or risen bread and leavened products) are forbidden. Related Matzo Brei With Fresh Herbs and…
-
Recipes Matzo Brei With Fresh Herbs and Early Spring Greens
Matzo Brei (rhymes with “fry”), literally fried matzo, is the most beloved of Passover week traditions, the centerpiece of a simple brunch or breakfast: softened matzo, usually with egg beaten into it, fried in hot fat. This mixture may be scrambled, formed into little pancakes or cooked like an omelet. I have eaten it in…
-
‘Iron Chef Odessa’ — A Passover Cooking Competition in the Ukraine
At the Hesed Shaarei Tzion social welfare center in Odessa, Ukraine, elderly Jews gathered April 20 to compete in a Passover-themed cooking competition— an Iron Chef-type event with matzo as the main ingredient. Hesed Shaarei Tzion, which is sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, provides social services and Jewish cultural fare to needy…
-
‘Zahav’ Is James Beard Best Cookbook of Year
“Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking,” by Israeli-born chef Michael Solomonov and his partner, Steven Cook, took top honors at the 2016 James Beard Foundation Book, Broadcast & Journalism Awards Tuesday night. “Zahav” (Rux Martin Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) scored both the International and Book of the Year awards at the event, which was held at…
-
Recipes Indian-Spiced Matzo Fritters
If you’re like me, you have so much matzo in the house that you’ll be snacking on the stuff for at least two weeks after Passover has ended. This year, I wanted to experiment a little bit and find a different way to enjoy the abundance of leftover unleavened bread. These fried balls of matzo…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
- 2
Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
- 3
News How Mamdani became New York’s next mayor, with Jews divided between fierce opposition and fiery support
- 4
Culture Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — there’s a long Jewish history there
In Case You Missed It
-
News Scott Wiener, Jewish Democrat and critic of Israel’s war in Gaza, vies for Nancy Pelosi’s seat
-
Opinion Why a concert hall should be the last place for a protest — particularly an antisemitic one like this
-
Looking Forward What Hailey Bieber smoothies and instant matzo ball soup reveal about American Jewish taste
-
Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
