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At Bar Tartine, Jewish Food Is Part of the Mix
Family influences abound in the kitchen and the cookbook. At San Francisco’s Bar Tartine, the chef’s Lithuanian Jewish grandmother shows up regularly in the kitchen — or rather, her spirit does. “Family influences are our strongest inspiration,” Cortney Burns writes with co-author and co-chef Nicolaus Balla in their intro to “Bar Tartine: Techniques & Recipes.”…
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Recipes VIDEO: 4 Steps to Perfect Roast Chicken
How to Make a Roast Chicken, from the Jewish Daily Forward, on Vimeo. It always surprises me when someone says they’re intimidated by the idea of roasting a whole chicken — even though I hear it a lot. My response is to encourage the person to try it, because it’s easy and incredibly rewarding. Really,…
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Recipes Basic Roast Chicken, the Recipe
I offer this recipe as a guideline, not a dictate. There are a few basic steps, the details of which can vary. Season with the za’atar suggested here, or with other herbs and spices — or just with salt and pepper. Stuff with the lemons and shallots in my recipe, or with garlic and fresh…
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The Weekly Dish
Chef Alex Resnik is heading home to Queens to open a kosher restaurant. Photograph: Facebook. Here’s everything you need to know about restaurant openings and closings, chefs on the move and tasty events happening in the world of Jewish food. Los Angeles-based kosher-cuisine wizard and Top Chef survivor [Alex Reznik][2] is returning to his hometown…
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Toronto Foodies Flock to Veggie ‘Butcher Shop’
Michael Abramson presents Yam Chops’ carrot “lox”. Photographs courtesy of Yam Chops. That luscious lox is made of carrots. Silky cream cheese comes from cashews. And the crispy bacon? Maple-marinated coconut. Welcome to Yam Chops, the herbivore paradise that bills itself as Canada’s first “vegetarian butcher.” “We’re about non-meat meat that tastes great, with great…
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A Reuben Worshipper Builds his Temple
A pastrami sandwich at the 9th South Deli in Salt Lake City. Photograph by Anthony Weiss (JTA) – Going back to his very first bite of a Reuben more than 50 years ago, Randy Harmsen has always loved deli food. So when he decided to open his own restaurant, the Salt Lake City native followed…
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Recipes Recipes From My Argentine Grandmother
The recipe notebook of Lola Blei, the author’s grandmother, who was known as Loly. Photograph by Daniela Blei. If there was ever a doubt that cooking is more than just a means of providing sustenance, the evidence lies in my grandmother’s cursive. Her recipes fill a wire-bound notebook, its brittle pages a testament to butter…
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Three Israeli Pals Take Shakshuka to NYC
From left, Josh Sharon, Solomon Taraboulsi and Gabriel Israel with The Shuka Truck in midtown Manhattan. Photograph courtesy of The Shuka Truck (JTA) — Just over a year ago, Israeli friends Josh Sharon, Solomon Taraboulsi and Gabriel Israel moved to New York to pursue professional dreams: Sharon and Taraboulsi to prove themselves in real estate,…
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After Fire, Wise Sons Works to Rebuild
While the deli remains intact, Wise Sons lost its commercial kitchen in the fire. Photograph: Flickr Beloved San Francisco deli Wise Sons is scrambling to rebuild its catering and wholesale businesses after a devastating fire in early February destroyed the building that housed its commercial kitchen. The fire — which killed one person and injured…
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My Spicy Valentine
Spice Up Your Valentine’s* is a video from the* Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. Valentine’s Day comes with high expectations. Oh, the pressure to create romance. Add to that an expensive dinner in a restaurant overburdened by so many romance-seeking customers, and the evening often ends in disappointment. I remember one Valentine’s Day dinner, at…
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The Weekly Dish
Black Seed bagel sandwich. Photograph by Daniel Krieger Here’s everything you need to know about restaurant openings and closings, chefs on the move and tasty events happening in the world of Jewish food. Black Seed bills itself as a “modern-day bagel shop steeped in old-world tradition.” Now, the New York chainlet is taking that literally….
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