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Swap Cuban Fufú for Potatoes This Passover
There are certain dishes we expect to see at a traditional Passover table. Chicken soup dotted with fluffy matzoh balls, moist and slow-roasted brisket, maybe even a crisp potato kugel as a classic side dish. But sometimes, when my family wants to spice things up a bit, we look to our Latin culinary traditions for…
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Recipes Mixing Bowl: $27 Box of Matzo; Passover Recipes
Is there a box of matzo that’s worth $27. [Serious Eats] These chametz-free desserts are making our sugar tooth ache. [Serious Eats] These ones too. Can you say chocolate coconut matzo ice cream? [Serious Eats] This weekend, swap out pancakes for vegetable matzo frittata Boston.com] We might just have to break Passover on this… Rustic…
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Q & A with Sue Fishkoff on What’s Kosher
This blog post originally appeared on What’s Your Food Worth? Sue Fishkoff is the editor of j., the Jewish news weekly of Northern California. Previously she has worked as a national correspondent for the JTA Jewish news service, focusing on Jewish identity and culture. Her freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, Huffington…
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Desert to Dessert
As a long-time vegetarian, when I think of Passover, I am not thrilled by my food choices. At least, I wasn’t until I spent Passover 1992 in Israel and realized that I could follow Sephardic rules. I’m sure my ancestors in 1509 Portugal probably ate beans and rice, and maybe even corn by then, but…
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A Very Syrian Passover with Cookbook Author Jennifer Abadi
Every Jewish cook has their Passover mainstays, which are usually divided down a line: Ashkenazi or Sephardic, depending on their family’s country of origin. On a recent Tuesday morning we decided to cross over and try our hands at making traditional Syrian Passover foods. Our teacher was Jennifer Abadi, author of “A Fistful of Lentils:…
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Seder Pictures — From the White House
For the fifth year the First Family hosted a White House Seder. Sticking to tradition, brisket, kugel and matzo ball soup were served and the guest list included friends and colleagues of the President. But there was one new thing at the table: a Seder plate from Israel’s first lady. Check out the pictures below.
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When Bakers Do Matzo
Matzo’s known as the “bread of affliction.” And — truth be told — some boxed matzo lives up to the moniker. But more and more chefs and artisan bakers are creating their own matzos, bringing a homegrown twist to the ultimate Passover food — and, in a way, taking matzo back to its DIY roots….
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DIY Macaroons with Danny Macaroons
Danny Cohen doesn’t care much for sweets, but you would never guess it after tasting his big, chewy macaroons. The visual-artist-turned-macaroon-master started Danny Macaroons in 2010 and currently vends a variety of wacky flavors like bourbon and guava through coffee shops and flea markets around New York and Chicago. In this slideshow, Danny demonstrates how…
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Recipes ‘Save the Bubbes’ Projects Preserve Jewish Grandmothers’ Recipes Online
If ready-made and microwavable meals were the novelty foods of the ’90s, “back to basics” is the motto of the 2010s. Twenty-somethings across the country are rolling up their sleeves and joining their grandparents in their kitchens, learning to make the dishes their bubbes and zeydes were raised on — in some cases, recipes they…
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Making a Passover Tradition of Your Own
Tradition! No holiday says it louder than Passover. But what do you do when you don’t have the traditional household and extended family to celebrate with? That was the challenge my friend Karen Fink and I faced in 1996. Her Reform parents had been the family seder-makers, but they were getting tired. She leaned toward…
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Dayenu, Is It Enough?
As we celebrate the Passover Seder, we sing, Dayenu, perhaps the most recognized of Passover songs. We sing “It would have been enough” to take us of Egypt, and “it would have been enough” to split the sea, and “it would have been enough” to give us the Torah and Shabbat. But as we sit…
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