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Hamantaschen Get a Makeover
photos by Molly Yeh When I was a kid, hamantaschen came in two varieties: poppyseed (what the sophisticated grown-ups ate) and fruit. It didn’t matter what kind of fruit, it all tasted the same — overly sweet and sticky, and most importantly, difficult to scrape out with a spoon in order to get to the…
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An Interactive, Kabbalistic and Ecological Purim
The costumes line the streets and Purim is in the air. It’s really one of my favorite holidays, made more so by the preparations for our community’s traditional English-speakers Tzfat Purim shpiel. I excitedly anticipate the unique mishloach manot (gift packages) that my Sepharadi neighbors send – their homemade Moroccan Purim challahs, Djerbian orange-flavored donuts,…
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Is Holy Schnitzel Lower East Side’s Kosher Savior?
Kosher shops and restaurants once dotted the streets of the Lower East Side. Now, a small campaign is working to bring a kosher restaurant back to the neighborhood. Photo: Wikicommons A front-runner has emerged in the fight to replace Noah’s Ark Deli, the last full-service kosher restaurant on the Lower East Side. As the Forward…
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Recipes for an Indian Jewish Festival
Poha, or flattened rice, and fresh or fresh frozen shredded coconut can be found at Indian or other specialty food stores. Serves 6 4 cups thin poha 1 cup fresh (or fresh frozen) shredded coconut ½ cup raw sugar, or more to taste 8 cardamom pods ¼ cup sliced almonds ¼ cup black raisins ¼…
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Recipes Shabbat Coconut Chicken Curry
Martyna Starosta Serve this curry ladled into bowls over steaming basmati rice or coconut rice (rice where half or more of the cooking water is replaced with coconut milk). If desired, experiment with adding different vegetables to the curry, like cauliflower, green beans or potatoes. Serves 6 ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1…
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Recipes The Flavors of Jewish India
‘The scent of clove and cardamom immediately brings me back to my grandmother’s kitchen in Mumbai,” Siona Benjamin tells me as she stands in her own sunlit kitchen, in Montclair, N.J., with the makings of coconut chicken curry — cans of coconut milk, fresh ginger and a round, silver tray lined with small bowls of…
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The Making of ‘Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream’
Just in time for Passover, a mouth-watering, new documentary about America’s last family-owned matzo factory might be released — if it gets a little more help from its friends. Director Michael Levine and producer Michael Green recently completed the production of “Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream” after they raised almost $65,000 through a Kickstarter…
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What To Watch at San Francisco’s Jewish Food Film Fest
If you’re very squeamish, or if you believe that Jews should eat only kosher food, then the film “Meat Hooked!” is not for you. Otherwise, you’ll find it an interesting cinematic study on the renaissance of the art of (non-kosher) butchering. Filmgoers will have a chance to catch a screening of the 2012 documentary as…
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Will Black Seed Bagel Shop End the Bagel Wars?
Montreal and New York bagels have long been in a standoff. Will Black Seed, a new bagelry that plans to combine the two recipes end the feud? Photos courtesy of Mile End and Flickr When Mile End opened in Brooklyn four years ago, the Montreal-inspired deli made a name for itself by trucking bagels weekly…
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A Taste of Michael Solomonov’s ‘Search for Israeli Cuisine’
Anthony Bourdain’s tour of Israel last fall left me (and most viewers) desperately longing for a real exploration of Israeli cuisine. Bourdain alluded to a meal of roasted baby watermelon in Gaza that never appeared on camera and somehow managed to skip one of the region’s culinary capitals — Tel Aviv — entirely. Where Bourdain…
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Holy Kosher BBQ Truck Rolls on L.A. Streets
Photo: Facebook More than 2 million hot dogs are sold every year at Dodger Stadium — more than at any other stadium in America. Which comes as a pretty big surprise in a city known for its obsession with hamburgers and tacos. But here in Los Angeles, we do love our hot dogs. And these…
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