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Cooking the Bible
I have to admit that while chopping garlic or sautéing onions, my mind is likely to wander to wondering about the completed dish, thinking about the next step, or about who I need to call when I’m done. Thinking about the Torah portion of the week is not likely to make it onto that list….
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Jacob’s Marble Pound Cake
Marble Pound Cake with a Hard Chocolate Crust Ingredients 1½ cups (300 g) sugar ¾ cup (170 g) butter or margarine 3 cups (375 g) flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. baking soda 1 cup (240 mL) orange juice 2 tsp. vanilla 3 eggs ½ tsp. salt ¼ cup (30 g) cocoa powder 1…
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Joseph’s Technicolor Salad
Technicolor Salad with Silky Avocado Dressing Ingredients 1 head romaine lettuce, chopped 1 11 oz. (312 g) can mandarin orange slices 1 red pepper, sliced into thin strips 1 yellow pepper, sliced into thin strips 1 carrot, sliced thin 2 cucumbers, halved lengthwise and sliced thin 1 small red onion, sliced thin and separated into…
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The First Israeli Whisky Distillery
Picture a bar in Tel Aviv, it’s early 2012 and a group of friends are joking about starting a whisky distillery – in Israel. It may sound funny, but this is no joke, and since those first meetings, I have been part of a team working tirelessly to make it a reality. Our efforts to…
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DIY Fortune Cookies for Christmas
Something is special about Wednesday. You may wake up with a warm fuzzy feeling, and perhaps there will be fresh snow on the ground. Smells of sugar and spice might fill your apartment hallways, and outside, all will be quiet. The groceries will be closed, the convenience stores too… and even your Twitter feed will…
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Last BBQ of the ‘Goyish Year’
Ari White thought it was time to “show Brooklyn some love”. And he did it on Sunday and Monday — with 2,500 pounds of meat. White’s the pit boss of Bronx-based Hakadosh BBQ, whose “Wandering Que” brings kosher Texas smokehouse pop-ups to street fairs across New York City. But White’s custom-built “BBQ rig” had never…
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Quinoa Ruled Kosher for Passover
Rabbi Shoshan Ghoori meets with South American farmers during quinoa fact-finding mission Jews around the world can breathe a sigh of relief: Quinoa is kosher for Passover. The Orthodox Union (OU), the world’s largest kosher certification agency, announced last week that it would begin certifying the popular food for use during the festival of freedom….
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Israel Approves Female Kosher Supervisors
In a landmark decision earlier this month, the Israeli Chief Rabbinate agreed to allow women to take the necessary steps to becoming certified kosher supervisors. The decision comes after a lawsuit filed with the High Court of Justice by Emunah, an organization which offers an array of services including vocational schools and a women’s college….
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What’s Your Desert Island Jewish Meal?
What is your ultimate Jewish meal? Imagine you are on a deserted island: what Jewish foods — Ashkenazi or Sephardi, home cooked, or from a restaurant, nostalgic or nouveau — would you want to nosh on? We asked some of our favorite food luminaries what their last Jewish meal would be and were delighted by…
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Ramen Noodles, Meet the Matzo Ball
In the bathroom at Shalom Japan, a new Jewish-Japanese fusion restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hangs a framed poster of the famous 1960s advertisement for Levy’s rye bread featuring a young Japanese boy holding a sandwich with the slogan: “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s.” Outside in the dining room, the menu at…
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My Delicious Braised-Goat Adventure
My family gets together regularly with a group of dedicated carnivore friends for a feast including some combination of roast beef, schnitzel, sausages, and sometimes a roast goose. My contributions tend toward accessories like wine, vegetables and desserts, important but less glamorous. So I was excited when friends at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center…
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