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The Shuka Truck Opens!
The Shuka Team gears up for its first eggcellent day. Photograph courtesy of The Shuka Team Catch The Shuka Truck today — you’ll recognize it by its lovely shade of eggshell — as it parks for the first time. For its main attraction, the Shuka team will be cooking up Shakshuka, of course — the…
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Toronto’s New Schmaltz Appetizing Is Modeled on the Classics
Schmaltz Appetizing’s bagel with whitefish salad. Photographs by Caroline Aksich, Toronto Life Anthony Rose swears this was the original tagline for Schmaltz Appetizing, his new Toronto fish emporium: “We cater the beginning and the end — the bris and the shiva.” The joke is typical Rose. While the 35-year-old is dead serious about food, he…
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An Indian-Jewish Homecoming at NYC’s Haldi
Photographs by Sigal Samuel Taking my first bite of bamia kuhta at Haldi, Manhattan’s new Indian-Jewish restaurant, I registered a surge of spiciness — and of guilt. Suddenly, I felt sure that wherever she was, whatever she was doing at that moment, my Bombay-born grandmother could see me enjoying an Indian-Jewish feast that was —…
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Our British-Canadian-American (Jewish) Thanksgiving
Thinkstock Growing up in Montreal and Toronto respectively, neither my husband nor I celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving. According to my parents, it was a Christian holiday. In my imagination, Thanksgiving encouraged families of scrubbed-faced pale-haired Christians across the country to sit around their hand-sawn and sanded wood tables under a big similarly homemade cross and say…
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Recipes Waving Bye-Bye to Pumpkin Pie
Torta di zucca, an Italian winter squash and olive oil cake. Photograph by Gayle L. Squires Admitting this in the days leading up to Thanksgiving might put me squarely in the crosshairs of the long-defunct House Committee on Un-American Activities, but I’m a risk-taker, so here goes: I don’t like pie. I particularly don’t like…
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Recipes Pumpkin Pie Alternative: Marta’s Torta di Zucca
The recipe was adapted from Marta’s torta di zucca, a winter squash and olive oil cake by Chef Pat Clark. Photograph by Gayle L. Squires I tested this cake with kobucha squash and butternut squash, and both worked well. A 1½ pound gourd has about 1 pound of usable squash which, shredded, yields 2¼ very…
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Food Chains Ask Who Picks Your Food
T’ruah rabbis and farmworker activists protest at a Wendy’s in Naples, Florida, calling on the fast-food giant to join the Fair Food Program. Photograph by Coalition of Imokalee Workers. Who picks the food you eat? How are they treated? How much are they paid? These are just a few of the critical questions that we…
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The Foods of Georgia, on My Mind
One of the delicious cheese breads of Georgia. Photographs by Liza Schoenfein “Gaumarjos!” Maia Efrem said, clinking a glass of red wine with those of the seven friends she’d gathered at Oda House, a Georgian restaurant on New York’s Lower East Side. “That literally means ‘to victory’ in Georgian, and it’s how we say ‘cheers’.”…
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Sunday Brunch Happiness
Photogaph by Liza Schoenfein Blissful Sunday, thanks to Murray’s Sturgeon Shop on New York’s Upper West Side. The Eastern Nova is as buttery as ever, and sliced to translucent perfection by the inimitable Ira Goller. Liza Schoenfein is the food editor of the Forward. Contact her at [email protected].
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Recipes Cooking as Catharsis
Thinkstock As a college freshman, feeling the pressure of my first ever round of finals, and with no kitchen or supplies of any kind, I found myself yearning to bake. It was a distracting, clawing desire, pulling at the edges of my attention as I struggled in vain to study Rousseau or economic specialization or…
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Recipes Stress-Relieving Pumpkin Challah
Photograph by Hillary Berkowitz Nussbaum It’s a stunningly simple way to a feel a sense of accomplishment and renewal — pick a recipe and execute it. It’s an exercise in presence, in clearing your mind and committing fully to the task at hand. It’s meditative. Cathartic. Next time you’re feeling restless or anxious, pressured or…
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