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Mexican Passover For a Cause
Toloache chef Julian Medina. It’s a safe bet that you’ll be ready to dive back into the world of leavened bread on Sunday, but you might consider extending Passover through brunch. Because you’ve never had Passsover food like the stuff being served that morning at Chef Julian Medina’s Toloache Thompson in New York’s West Village….
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Recipes Leah Koenig Dishes on ‘Modern Jewish Cooking’
Photograph by Zivar Amrami In her new cookbook, “Modern Jewish Cooking,” Leah Koenig keeps one foot planted in the traditional Jewish canon while confidently guiding her reader into new territory — a place where seasonality, inter-cultural fusion and creativity reign. Like an abstact painter who learned the rules of classical drawing and painting before breaking…
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Recipes Amaranth, Squash and Herb Salad
This salad is fun, delicious and bursts with genuine Mexican flavors and textures. Photograph by Tami Ganeles-Weiser/The Weiser Kitchen Serves 6-8 For the salad: ½ cup amaranth 2½ cups low-sodium vegetable broth 4 teaspoons salt, divided 4 cups water 3 medium (about 2 ¼ pounds total) frozen or fresh yucca, peeled and cut into ½-inch…
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Recipes Spinach-Matzo Lasagna
Read the interview with Leah. Over the last decade, matzo lasagna has quickly and emphatically entered the Passover mainstream. Its rise has partly to do with the need it fills for a substantive main dish to serve during the holiday’s weeklong bread ban. The other reason for its popularity? It’s delicious, and remarkably so. Softened…
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Recipes Matzo Granola With Walnuts and Coconut
Read the interview with Leah. Breakfast can be tough going during Passover. With toast, bagels, cereal, waffles, muffins, oatmeal and pretty much every other starchy breakfast staple off the menu, the options are seriously limited. Enter this granola. The crumbled matzo that replaces the typical rolled oats gets toasty and crisp in the oven, and…
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The Weekly Dish
Experimental performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson hosted the second Seder at Russ & Daughters Cafe last weekend. Photograph courtesy of Russ & Daughers Lou Reed was reportedly a devoted fan of Russ & Daughters smoked fish. So we thought it was a heimishe touch that the late rock star’s widow, Laurie Anderson, hosted this…
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Behind the Scenes of the JCC’s New Cookbook
Cover image by John Tavares I enjoy asking cookbook authors about what inspired their work. A cookbook so often has a personal story attached to it, one that unfolds through the food within its pages. Maybe the author was motivated by a desire to share the flavors of a birthplace or childhood, or of a…
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Recipes ‘The Community Table’ Karpas Salad
Photograph by John Tavares The three authors of JCC Manhattan’s new cookbook, Katja Goldman, Judy Bernstein Bunzl and Lisa Rotmi, dubbed this their karpas salad, named after the spring herbs and bitter greens served at a Passover Seder, but they make it all year-round. It also features dates, pine nuts, pomegranate seeds and a bright…
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The Passover Gluten of Our Affliction
Workers prepare final batches of matzos at Streit’s matzo factory. Photo by Julie Botnick “This is the bread of affliction,” we say on Passover, holding up the dry, flat matzo that will be ubiquitous in our lives for the next week. Anyone who has eaten it daily for the whole holiday knows that the affliction…
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Recipes Countering Affliction With Prune Charoset
Prunes make a welcome addition to charoset. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Matzo isn’t called “the bread of our affliction” for nothing. This charoset recipe will help mitigate any misery it may cause. ½ cup each of prunes, dates, currants and apricots 1 cup orange juice 1 cup port, Manischewitz or other sweet red wine ¼…
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Recipes Chocolate Swirl Amaranth Breakfast Porridge
Photograph by Tami Ganeles-Weiser/The Weiser Kitchen Who says super-healthy food can’t be super delicious? Nutrition-packed amaranth gets a flavor boost from a chocolate swirl made with honey, cocoa, and cinnamon and a burst of flavor and texture from dried mango and banana and toasted almonds. Serves 4 For the chocolate swirl: ½ cup honey 1…
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