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Taste the Real Quenelle
The first time I heard that Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala had adopted the “quenelle” as his trademark, my first thought was that the controversial French comedian had a strange affinity for fish. That’s because a quenelle, in my mind, refers not to an anti-Semitic inverted Nazi salute, but to a delicious dish from the south of…
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What’s on the Menu at the Vatican? Kosher Fare
Pope Francis treated a Jewish delegation from his native Argentina to a private lunch catered by one of Rome’s top kosher restaurants. On Thursday, proprietors of the restaurant Ba’ Ghetto brought Roman Jewish specialties to the Vatican, where the pope hosted the group of rabbis and Jewish leaders at the Santa Marta guesthouse, his residence….
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Something from Almost Nothing
My new year’s resolution was not to eat bread that I didn’t make. Between December 31st and January 1st, this already proved too difficult, so I scaled it back to not purchasing bread. In other words, if I wanted bread, I’d have to make it. I’ve already mastered my classic challah recipe (which is actually…
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Sherryl Betesh’s Syrian Kibbe Nabelsieh: Recipe
Sherryl Betesh’s Kibbe Nabelsieh: Meat-Filled Bulgur Shells Filling: 1 medium onion, chopped 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 1/2 pounds ground beef 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 2 teaspoons ground allspice 1 teaspoon kosher salt Dough: 3 cups fine bulgur wheat 11/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon paprika 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4…
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Caplansky’s Smoked Meat at 30,000 Feet
How will smoked meat taste at 30,000 feet? Itinerant fressers at Toronto Pearson International Airport will soon find out. Caplansky’s, the wildly successful deli empire founded by Canuck cured-beef maven Zane Caplansky, has unveiled plans for two concessions inside Pearson, Canada’s busiest air-travel hub. Caplansky, who’s gone from one-man pop-up to culinary celebrity, will open…
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Molly on the Range: Tu B’Shvat Tart
Five months ago I moved from downtown Brooklyn to a farm in a small town on the border of North Dakota and Minnesota, population approximately four Jews (read: not enough Jews to support a local deli or even a Zomick’s presence at the town Target). Having lived in or near a city for my entire…
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Mark Bittman’s ‘Kosher Before Six’
(JTA) — Mark Bittman is not a religious man by any stretch of the imagination, least of all his own. A longtime food writer for The New York Times who three years ago shifted from cooking to food policy columnist, Bittman has made a living eating the kinds of things frowned upon by Jewish tradition….
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Introducing the Crogel: Part Bagel, Part Croissant
The crogel is here. You can’t say you didn’t see it coming, what with all the hype last summer about the cronut. If someone could think of crossing a croissant with a donut, then it’s obvious someone else was eventually going to come up with a croissant-bagel hybrid. We can thank Stew Leonard’s, the family-owned…
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Learning Syrian Jewish Kitchen Classics
All good Jewish kids know that nothing beats your bubbe’s brisket. That heartwarming philosophy is basically the premise of Mo Rocca’s cooking show, “My Grandmother’s Ravioli, ” which pays tribute to the culinary wizards behind each family’s recipes. Sherryl Betesh’s Kibbe Nabelsieh // Courtesy of The Cooking Channel. It all started, he says, with guilt….
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Our Favorite New Israeli Wines
Wine may have been produced in the land of Israel since biblical times, but Israel’s wine industry is relatively new and it’s growing handsomely. Last week’s Sommelier Wine Expo in Tel Aviv offered an excellent opportunity to drink (and drink to) the wines of country’s budding boutique wineries. We tasted, sipped, swirled wine in our…
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Girl Scout Cookies in Canada Go Kosher
JTA — Most Girl Guide cookies have been certified kosher in Canada following the efforts of an all-Orthodox troop. When the 31 Jewish girls established the 613th Thornhill Pathfinder Unit in Thornhill, Ontario, a heavily Jewish suburb north of Toronto, the first question member Sara Silverman asked was, “When do we start selling cookies?” according…
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