Eat, Drink & Think is your daily destination for recipes, restaurant news, holiday menus and great food journalism — all through a Jewish lens. From the traditional to the cutting edge, we explore the worldwide Jewish culinary landscape and bring…
Food
-
In a Pickle: Are the Best Pickles American or Israeli?
For some American tourists, the first encounter with an Israeli pickle provokes quite a surprise. While the mild and crunchy kosher dill pickle is popular in the American Jewish and non-Jewish cuisine, it does not prepare you for its strong-flavored, spicy Israeli brother. Jews in both countries rejoice in their pickles. One is served with…
-
Recipes Send Us Your Rosh Hashanah Cooking Questions!
Rosh Hashanah is the perfect holiday to bring out all the stops in your kitchen. Without the restrictions of Passover, it’s a great time to get creative (I’m thinking Asian BBQ brisket) or lovingly revive a special family recipe. But cooking a holiday meal for your family or friends can be intimidating, whether you’ve done…
-
The Little Creamery That Could
This story first appeared on J. Weekly. When Bohemian Creamery’s Boho Belle cheese was served along with fig sesame jam, arugula and balsamic vinegar to President Barack Obama at a brunch in Atherton, it was then, and only then, that Lisa Gottreich began to think that maybe she would succeed as a cheesemaker. “I started…
The Latest
-
The CSA Psolet Challenge: Week Two
If last week was about confronting my CSA enemy, this week was all about reuniting with a good CSA friend: beets. It took me a while for my love affair with beets to ignite, but when it did, I never looked back. In addition to being gorgeous and delicious, nutritionally speaking, beets have it all:…
-
Cronut Craze Invades the Holy Land
In New York Dominque Ansel’s cronut (a donut croissant hybrid) is the talk of the town. Devoted pastry lovers and the slightly insane line up outside the bakery as early as 5 or 6am daily to buy their daily allowance of two cronuts a person for $5 each. Those wishing to avoid the crowds are…
-
Could Science Create a Kosher Cheeseburger?
(JTA) — When the world’s first lab-grown burger taste-tested on Monday, the event seemed full of promise for environmentalists, animal lovers and vegetarians. Another group that had good reason to be excited? Kosher consumers. The world’s first in-vitro burger, made using stem cells and soaked in a nutrient broth that might make Upton Sinclair shudder,…
-
Shabbat Meals in Paris: Coq au Vin
I met Nadia in the summer of 1986, when I was 17 years old. We had both just graduated high school, and were among a handful of Americans who participated in a French language program in the south of France for a month. That I ended up in such a program was totally against my…
-
What Should I Take for Lunch?
When my kids were little, I was always searching for that perfect lunch. What could I put in their lunch box which would not be returned to me in the afternoon? For each child it was a different challenge: this one didn’t eat bread, this one ate bread but only whole wheat, and this one…
-
Tastes From the Kosher Druze Kitchen
In the Galilee village of Sajur, Sohweela Ibrahim bends over her kitchen table, chopping onions on a wooden block. Her dress, as befits a middle-aged Druze woman, is black and long-sleeved. A long white kerchief swathes her head and neck, leaving her face exposed. In a sieve next to her elbow, soaked freekeh wheat drains…
-
Recipes Shabbat Traditions: ‘Caterpillar Cake’ and Hamburgers
The first time I saw my Granny putting ice in her hamburger mixture, I thought she was crazy, but it’s something she did nearly every Friday night when I visited as a child. She would prepare her specialties — meatloaf or hamburgers, salad with extra garlicy dressing, and icebox cake for dessert — in her…
-
Recipes The CSA Psolet Challenge: Week One
Frisée! My CSA nemesis. What to do with this morass of spindly, bitter leaves that poke wildly in my mouth? The word frisée means ‘curly’ in French, and a head of this green indeed resembles a Medusa-like afro on the most humid of days. I’ve never bought frisée on my own accord, having experienced it…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News When observant Jews gathered to challenge Israel orthodoxy, verbal sparring and walkouts ensued
- 2
Opinion Trump has forced an impossible choice on American synagogues amid antisemitic attacks
- 3
Opinion The one crucial domain in which Iran outwitted Israel
- 4
Opinion Antisemitism is exploding on the right but the Jewish establishment is focused on the left
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Israelis and Americans deserve to know why they are still at war
-
News A government takeover could save a struggling Brooklyn hospital — while unsettling the Orthodox Jewish community it serves
-
News Joe Kent, Trump official with white supremacist ties, resigns over Iran war and blames Israel
-
Fast Forward Dueling letters from Jewish groups dispute prevalence of antisemitism at UCLA
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
