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Summer pasta with smoked rainbow trout
A light summer pasta that uses Fishwife’s sustainable smoked rainbow trout. Ingredients 1 pound dried linguini 2 tbsp. olive oil 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 small onion, diced 1 pint cherry tomatoes, quartered or 2 heirloom tomatoes, chopped 1/2 cup white wine 2 T. basil, torn 1 T. fresh or 1/2 t. dried oregano 1…
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Fishwife brings elegance, taste and style to…canned fish?
When it comes to fish, crudo is cool. Ceviche is cool. But canned tuna and sardines? Not so much. Seven months ago, two 20-somethings set out to rectify that when they founded Fishwife, a company that sells tinned fish that is tasty, good for the planet, fancifully packaged, and healthy to boot. At the start…
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A Brooklyn Hasid and Ohio Christian farmer create kosher recipes to feed the needy
Alexander Rapaport is a Brooklyn Chasid with a black beard and payes who dresses in the traditional black coat, white shirt and prayer shawl. Lee Jones is an Ohio born-and-bred Christian farmer known by his uniform of blue overalls and red bowtie. Since their first meeting seven years ago at a conference for culinary leaders…
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Baked Butternut Squash with Onion Caramel
Serves: 4 Original recipe: Page 54-55 The Chef’s Garden By Farmer Lee Jones Kosher issue: Meat and dairy Recipe adapted by: Chef Jordana Hirschel This recipe called for cornish hens glazed with a buttery onion caramel. After speaking with Chef Jamie Simpson, I learned that the focus of the dish was not chicken itself, but…
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The Jewish Herbal: Apricot
The Jewish Herbal: Mystical Reflections on Food, Nature and Urban Farming” is a regular column by Devorah Brous charting the ways we can use mystical Jewish wisdom, earth-based practices and herbal wellness to reconnect with ourselves in harmony with nature. Dev is an urban homesteader, lifecycle ritualist, and green consultant in Los Angeles. Find her…
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Recipes Recipe: Forverts’ “Baba Au Rhum” for Father’s Day
For Father’s Day this year, The Forward presents to you a recipe from the archives that originally appeared in the Forverts in 1979. Longtime Forverts columnist Tsirl Steingart printed this recipe in the Est Gezunterheyt! column under the pseudonym “Sara Berkovitch.” Steingart had a fairly active life prior to settling into the role of Forverts…
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Red velvet cupcakes for Loving Day
#tweetyourshabbat is a global movement founded by Carly Pildis, celebrating the struggle and joy of getting Shabbat on the table every week. This is a place for real dinners and real conversations about Jewish life. Join us at Forward in sharing what you’ll be eating and how your feeling this week at #TweetYourShabbat Loving Day…
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These days David Hertz is a world leader in turning food into social change. He had to reconcile his Jewish identity first.
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Chef David Hertz, one of the world’s leading food entrepreneurs tackling social issues, credits two places with inspiring his journey: There’s the kibbutz in Israel, and the favela in Brazil. At 18, after growing up in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, he traveled to the Hatzerim kibbutz to live…
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In ‘Gazoz,’ Israeli soda sparkles to life
If you visit Levinsky Market, an unmanicured patchwork of small food and spice stores in southern Tel Aviv, stop at Cafe Levinsky 41. You can get a good cup of espresso there, but don’t waste time on that. What you want is owner Benny Briga’s gazoz, a carbonated, fruit-flavored and artfully decorated drink — think…
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Imani Jackson’s Chicken ‘n’ Rice Bake
My mother’s Chicken ‘n’ Rice Bake was her way of making something BOMB out of nothing. Ingredients: 6 chicken thighs 1 cup fresh broccoli 2 cups white rice 1 quart chicken broth 1 can Cream of Mushroom soup ½ cup butter or vegetable oil 1 tbsp salt and pepper 2 tsp onion powder 2 tsp…
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I started a catering company to heal my world through food
The Forward welcomes Imani Jackson as our newest food columnist. On Monday, May 31, MTV will feature Chef Jackson in its special on antisemitism, “With One Voice: Fighting Hatred Together.” Everyone always asks me why I started a community-based catering company. It’s simple. I love to eat! I mean, who doesn’t? But it’s also more…
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