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The World’s Best Hummus
At Hummus Lina in Jerusalem, bowls of hummus are topped with mashed fava beans. Photo: Courtesy of ‘Make Hummus Not War.’ On his hop around the world, filmmaker Trevor Graham sampled countless bowls of hummus. But which are his favorites? We found out: Lina, Jerusalem: This Palestinian-owned restaurant is buried deep in the Armenian quarter…
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Recipes Rainbow Cabbage Salad with Tahini-Lemon Dressing
This colorful salad is delicious as a main course or side dish. The nutritional punch of colors makes it full of beta-carotene, calcium, and a bevy of vitamins. Arrange the ingredients alongside one another and drizzle with the dressing, or mix them all together for a mixed-up delicious rainbow of a salad. Serves 4 3…
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Recipes Dilled Chickpea Burger With Spicy Yogurt Sauce
No one will ever know these burgers are made of chickpeas, unless you tell them. Shallots, chickpeas, tahini, and spices are combined and sautéed to crisp perfection for one of the most satisfying veggie burgers we’ve tasted. Here we’ve stuffed them into pita pockets and doused them with yogurt sauce, but they’re just as wonderful…
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Recipes Mayim Bialik’s Winter Vegetable Risotto
Risotto is often hard to mimic as a vegan dish because it calls for lots of Parmesan and butter to create its creamy taste and consistency. This recipe re-creates all of that, using a combination of almond milk, tahini, and a touch of nutritional yeast. The result is a sophisticated risotto, which we pair with…
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Recipes Mayim Bialik’s Vegan Cookbook
It probably was only a matter of time before Mayim Bialik put out a cookbook. The actress – who began her career as a child actor on “Blossom” and now appears regularly on “The Big Bang Theory” is also known for a few other things: her PhD in neuroscience; her advocacy of attachment parenting; her…
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Growing a Garden, Seeding a Movement
What is the purpose of a community garden? A few weeks ago, I would have said that I knew the answer to this question: that a community garden’s purpose is to nourish people with healthy food and to subvert a corrupt system by providing an alternate model. However, at this year’s Hazon Food Conference at…
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Even Matzo Is Going Local
What do Succot and Pesach have to do with each other? Sages have been asking each other that questions for generations, but the result has never been quite so eco-conscious. This year though, for the first time ever, Yiddish farm is offering the opportunity to purchase local, organic, whole wheat, Shmurah matzah for Passover. The…
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Deli Shabbats Are Popping Up in Red Hook
In a seemingly logical (and tasty) move: Brooklyn’s own Mile End Deli is teaming up with Pop-Up Shabbat, a Jewish-themed pop-up dinner series, to host bi-monthly events at new Mile End’s commissary kitchen on Pier 41 in Red Hook. Over a year after Mile End’s kitchen/meat processing facility was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, it is…
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A Taste of Paris Comes to Tel Aviv
Photo: Lauren Tolila What did Israeli restaurant-goers and French President Francois Hollande have in common this week? They probably ate the same dish. A group of 19 French chefs from some of the most prestigious restaurants in France visited Israel this week as part of the 2nd annual French gastronomy week, an event organized by…
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Recipes Video: DIY Chocolate and Cinnamon Babka
Homemade babka is a pure delight, filling your home with the smell of yeasty bread, cinnamon and chocolate. This video breaks the whole recipe down.
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Recipes Za’atar Chicken Fit for a Valentine’s Shabbat
Photos by Molly Yeh I love a good fried chicken. I love schnitzel, I love katsu, I love anything fatty and breaded and crispy. If my Valentine presented me with a heart-shaped schnitzel on the 14th, I think I’d propose right then and there. The problem is, I also love feeling good and fitting into…
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