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Pumpkin Cake With a Gelt Surprise
Some Thanksgivukkah mashups we’re really struggling with (turkey stuffed sufganiyot? We’ll pass). But a chocolate gelt filled pumpkin cake? Yes, please. This recipe (below) and pictures come courtesy of Franci Cohen. Thanks, Franci! Our inner child is screaming for this sweet treat. Spiced Chocolate Pumpkin Cake with Hanukkah Gelt Chocolate Filling Ingredients: 3” metal circle…
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Pastrami With Side of Drama at Carnegie Deli
Who knew leafy greens could be so telling? The romaine lettuce you’ll see these days on plates at the Carnegie Deli aren’t just a sign owner Marian Levine has stopped using iceberg lettuce. These leaves mean that she has also gotten rid of Sanford “Sandy” Levine, her philandering husband of 22 years. (Apparently Sandy, who…
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Recipes The Cook Behind America’s First Yiddish Cookbook
Several years ago, while on a walk with his dog, John Lankenau came across a tombstone leaning against a fire hydrant on Manhattan’s East Fourth Street. Most of the writing on the tombstone was in Hebrew, but not the name: Hinda Amchanitzky. Lankenau rescued the tombstone from the sidewalk and went looking for answers: Who…
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Welcome to the Ultimate Jewish Food Championship
We all have our favorite Jewish foods, but are we willing to go head to head with other food lovers to defend them? A Bit off the Top, a Montreal-based incubator for Jewish ideas (it organizes LE MOOD), is challenging bagel biters, latke lovers and falafel fanciers to stand up for their favorite fare in…
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Gabila’s Knishes Up for Grabs on eBay
Knish lovers: Stop kvetching and start bidding. Three weeks after Gabila’s Long Island knish factory announced a shortage of fried potato pies due to a fire, a dozen fried potato pies in Knoxville, Tennessee were put up for auction. “WE HAVE THEM. YOU WANT THEM. BID NOW!” reads the ad, which advertises the knishes as…
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Pumpkin Cranberry Munchkins for Thanksgivukkah
As the internet becomes flooded with Thanksgivukkah recipes, I become flooded with the fear of having to plan a menu. Challah stuffing or sufganiyot stuffing? Sweet potato latkes or Brussels sprout latkes? And, should I really deep fry the turkey? There’s a lot of pressure knowing that we only get one shot at celebrating Thanksgivukkah,…
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Zucker Bakery’s Turkey-Stuffed Sufganiyah
Even if you love turkey dinner and a deep-fried glazed doughnut, the thought of the combining the two may not have occurred to you. But, in the age of the cronut and bacon-flavored everything, of course the rare overlap between Thanksgiving and Hanukkah could not leave the pastry world unmarred. In honor of the holiday,…
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Chubby Chickpea: Boston’s First Kosher Food Truck
It’s forty degrees and the wind is blowing, but I’m sitting on an even colder marble slab outside the Christian Science Plaza in Boston so that Avi Shemtov can keep a metaphorical eye on his food truck, The Chubby Chickpea. The Chubby Chickpea went kosher about a month ago, but only a small certificate in…
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Thanksgiving Tzedakah: Pies for Prevention
When sisters Sharon and Adeena started baking Thanksgiving pies five years ago to raise money for ovarian cancer (which claimed the lives of their mother and grandmother) they never imagined they would raise over $100,000. But with a cadre of committed volunteers holding bake sales in 10 cities around the country, plus Toronto and Jerusalem…
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Meet Joseph Levy, The Man Behind ‘Spinning Plates’
With the popularity of Top Chef, The Food Network and just about any TV show focused on food, it was only a matter of time until a film on the people who’ve made cooking a lifelong labor of love made it to the silver screen. The three restaurants showcased in the new documentary “Spinning Plates”…
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Life, Death, and Kosher Slaughter
Yadidya Greenberg is a certified shochet (kosher slaughterer), animal welfare educator and blogger. He has given live kosher slaughter and animal welfare presentations at The Portland Meat Collective, Urban Adamah of Berkley and the Hazon Rocky Mountain Food Festival just to name a few. Yadidya will also be featured in the upcoming documentary “Farm and…
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