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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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Recipes Chickpea Pizza With Harissa And Spinach
Makes two personal pizzas 1 cup chickpea flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt a few cracks of black pepper 1 cup water olive oil, to coat the pan About 2 tablespoons harissa* (this amount may vary depending on your taste and how hot your harissa is) 1/2 large onion, chopped and caramelized…
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The Mystery of the ‘Jewish Woman’s Cookbook’
Tara Lotstein purchased a Hungarian-Jewish cookbook, with a recipe written at the back, that made it through the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Tara Lotstein) BALTIMORE (JTA) — The tattered book with the beige cover was just the sort of thing Tara Lotstein was looking to purchase when she found it online in late 2012. Its title…
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Six Kosher Wines To Drink Right Now
thinkstock I wondered, as I crossed the stone-flagged patio of the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, if it was worth visiting the Second Wine Jerusalem Festival. I’d made the rounds of the larger Sommelier wine exhibition in Tel Aviv just a few weeks earlier. There probably won’t be much new to see or taste, I…
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5 Years, 5 Steps to Community Garden Collaboration
My synagogue garden will be five years old this spring. That is how long it took to become a truly congregational enterprise, and not just a labor of love for me. Step 1: Get Leadership On Board Initially, I wanted to build the garden in the front of the shul. That was nixed by the…
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