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Lesser Family Carrot Souffle
Eric Lesser grew up having his family’s carrot souffle at Seder. When he was invited to celebrate the holiday at the White House, the President’s chef recreated it. Eating it the first year was “jarring experience,” Lesser recalled. “I’m sitting in the dining room of the White House, with portraits of first ladies and a…
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Superfruit and Superaromatic Charoset
Let’s face it: even without the charoset, we honor mortar on Passover. The food of this holiday isn’t—how can I say this nicely?—easy on digestion. Matzoh, potatoes, eggs, various proteins, cheese, it seems that most of what we eat is pretty heavy, and we often pay the price, feeling sluggish and fatigued, especially after the…
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How To Host an Elegant Vegetarian Seder
Whether it’s eating a fish head on Rosh Hashanah or mom’s turkey on Thanksgiving, traditional holiday foods are often not vegetarian friendly. Meat consumption on holidays is deeply embedded in Jewish tradition, where Maimonides and others propagate the idea that one cannot properly observe a holiday or celebration without consuming meat. Even the seder plate…
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At This Seder, It’s All About the Chocolate
Rabbi Adam Schaffer, who’s been leading chocolate seders since he edited a chocolate seder haggadah in 1996, acknowledges that “people often do feel ill” from all the chocolate. Still, Schaffer, the religious school director at Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills, Calif., says he was motivated to “experiment outside the box and engage college students who…
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Gefilte Fish With a Human Face
Occupying a prominent place in the dustbin of Jewish history is the Pittsburgh Platform of 1885, the founding document of Reform Judaism — the one that abolished the kosher laws, kippot, tallitot and bar mitzvahs, and renounced Zionism. The reaction against the Pittsburgh Platform was fierce and immediate — the nearly instantaneous founding of Conservative…
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Recipes Tamar Adler’s Fried Jewish Artichokes
I believe there are certain things to which we are each driven, like lemmings to their cliff. Probably the most curious of mine is a tenacious pull to cook unrealistic dishes I’ve never cooked before, at bad times. These attacks are particularly acute at holidays, when all the cousins -nth removed are coming and there…
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Passover Dessert Staple Won’t Appear on the Shelves
Months after super storm Sandy, the full extent of the damage is still coming to light. This year, customers around the country scouring local grocery stores for their favorite Passover sweets will be sorely disappointed. Shabtai Gourmet, a company that provided gluten-free kosher for Passover cakes and cookies — including favorites like rainbow cookies, cupcakes,…
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A Virtually Nosh and Stroll Tour of New York
On Sunday morning, a crew of folks who were bundled up and ready to learn (and eat) gathered for the Eldridge Museum’s Passover Nosh and Stroll. Amy Steinmilford and Hanna Griff-Sleven co-led the tour, which included stops at historical Jewish buildings and favorite food artisans around New York’s Lower East Side. Scroll over the pictures…
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The Great (Passover) Dessert Challenge
French-trained pastry chef Francois Payard thought he had done his homework when he opened his first patisserie in New York in 1997, but he soon realized that the learning curve might be a bit steeper than he’d anticipated. That year he stocked the display cases with a surplus of Easter-friendly confections, anticipating a rush of…
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Fair Trade Chocolate You CAN Eat on Passover
SHEHECHIYANU! We can finally eat chocolate on Passover that’s been certified to not have been made with trafficked child labor! Fair Trade Judaica received word from Rabbi Aaron Alexander, Associate Dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University, that “Equal Exchange pareve chocolates (the 3.5 oz. or 100 g line and dark…
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A South African Seder, Inspired by Lithuanian Roots
In the 1920s, when Esther Perkel was a young girl living in South Africa, she and her family traveled by tram and rickshaw to the Newtown Market in Johannesburg to buy bushels of fresh grapes grown in the vineyards around the Cape of Good Hope. Her family carted the grapes home shortly after Purim, where…
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