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How To Cook With Your Kids — and Get Them To Eat It
New York City Chef Linda Lantos often works with children and their parents to help them overcome food phobias, poor eating habits, and the dreaded “picky eater” phase. She finds that kids often use food as a way to assert the little bit of power they can find. Lantos always recommends (safely) involving your children…
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San Francisco Will Soon Lose Its Only Kosher Market
The owner of San Francisco’s only kosher market says she is closing her doors. Israel’s Strictly Kosher Market, which opened its doors 65 years ago, will close in March, owner Faina Avrutina told the J weekly. Avrutina has been running the shop for the last 10 years. The store has belonged to her family for…
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Homemade Dumplings for a Merry Jewish Christmas
Christmas in my family means one thing — our annual Dumplings of the World Party. All of our friends come over and spend the evening sitting at little tables around our house shaping potstickers, pierogies, empanadas… the offerings change from year to year, but there are a few favorites that would never be left out…
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Mile End Recovers After Sandy
There are few Jewish restaurants I love more than Brooklyn’s Mile End. The Montreal-style deli made a name for itself by updating the idea of deli, taking the time and care to smoke its meats in house, bake its own bread and for a long time, drive bagels in weekly from Montreal to hold true…
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Among the Canals: Amsterdam Hosts Jewish Food Exhibit
Residents of the Netherlands can pick up a bolus (sweet roll) or some pom (a chicken dish) to eat almost anywhere in the country, but how many of them know that these foods have Jewish origins? Amsterdam’s Jewish Historical Museum is banking on curiosity about these and other traditional Jewish foods to bring people through…
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The Taste of Ethiopia — Berbere
When the Ethiopian Jews began arriving in Israel with Operation Moses in 1984, they brought with them a spice mixture called berbere — the mix gives Ethiopian cuisine its distinctive flavor. The fiery taste of berbere evokes my early childhood, as my family lived in Ethiopia from 1969 to 1973. Berbere is the food of…
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Wine Chat With Golan Heights Winery
For Israeli wines, it has been an uphill battle to gain recognition in the world wine community. But a recent announcement gave it a big leg up. Wine Enthusiast, the leading wine magazine, named Golan Heights Winery as the New World Winery of the Year. In the late 1970’s a young, ambitious winemaker, Victor Schoenfeld,…
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Healthy, Simple, and Stylish
Helen Nash was born into an old rabbinical family in Cracow, Poland. In New York City, where she has spent most of her life, she studied with world-famous cooks Michael Field, Marcella Hazan, Lydie Marshall, and Millie Chan. An accomplished lecturer and teacher, she has given demonstrations at New York University and the legendary De…
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Mixing Bowl: Brisket Lab; Hanukkah Recipes
There’s a new cookbook about shmaltz! (More details to come soon on JCarrot.) In the meantime check out this first look. [Eater] Brisketlab. We really live in a wonderful world, when places like this exist. [Serious Eats] Eight desserts for eight nights of Hanukkah. Personally, we love the marshmallow dreidels. [Serious Eats Some seriously wacky…
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Modern Hannukah Miracle: Jewish Camp Powered by Veggie Oil
Early in 2012, Eden Village Camp, the Jewish organic farm camp in Putnam Valley, NY, converted its backup diesel engine to run on used vegetable oil. Its first test came this past summer, on July 15, 2012, when a big storm hit. The 200 campers and staff were confined to the dining hall until the…
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A Jewish Ice Cream Flavor for Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert inspired Ben & Jerry’s “AmeriCone Dream” ice cream, and the company named its “Late Night Snack” flavor for Jimmy Fallon. So, Neal Gottlieb thought it was time for that other late night funnyman — Jon Stewart — to also have his own ice cream variety. As it turned out, Gottlieb was better positioned…
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