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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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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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Donating That Kosher Food? Not So Fast
Kosher and halal meals going to food pantries must be tracked and labeled as such under a new federal law. An amendment to the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act enacted last week mandates the tracking and labeling by the Department of Agriculture. The department currently purchases kosher and halal foods but does not…
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A Pre-Conversion Shabbat Chicken Dinner
My love affair with roast chicken began long before I converted to Judaism. Growing up, my mother made a delicious recipe with preserved lemons that was the meal I requested on birthdays and special occasions. During college in upstate New York, my roommates and I would get rotisserie chickens from Wegman’s supermarket that we would…
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Glasserie Just Became a Bit More Israeli
Eldad Shem Tov watches over his kitchen at Shakuf in 2011. Photo: Courtesy of Haaretz. New York’s food scene is one of the most rapidly changing on the planet. But every once in a while, it pauses — and critics, chefs and hungry city dwellers seem to hone in on one restaurant. Lately, that spot…
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The Fight for a Kosher Lower East Side
Last fall the kosher restaurant Noah’s Ark on Grand Street closed its doors without much fanfare. But the shutter marked the end of an era — it was the last kosher restaurant on the Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Once home to the legendary Ratner’s, Crown Delicatessen, Shmulke Bernstein’s, and The Garden Cafeteria the neighborhood that…
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