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Turning the Tables:
My fondest memory of our Rosh Hashanah table is from even before we sat down to eat. As I was growing up, one of my chores on the Jewish New Year was to help set the table. Every year, as my mother would leave the plate of apples and honey on the table while she…
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Visual Diaries From the Israeli Kitchen
The hashtag #food turns up 9,633,042 results on Instagram; tweak the search to hashtag #foodporn, and 4,150,563 additional results appear. Virtually sharing our lives, experiences and thoughts has become an essential part of our culture — and for those who are passionate about food, so has photographing our every bite. Food posting has become integral…
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Recipes A 500 Year Old Rosh Hashanah Recipe
As soon as September starts, my mind turns to high holiday cooking and the intoxicating smells of one my Sephardic family’s favorite dishes – Salade de Piments, more widely known as matbucha. It is a transporting elixir of garlicky, semi-caramelized roasted peppers and tomatoes. Layered with smoky, piquant and subtly sweet flavors, it’s a perfect…
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Sweeten Your Rosh Hashanah With Fair Trade Honey
One of my favorite Rosh Hashanah traditions (in addition to familiar prayers and Tashlich) is dipping apples into honey. Who can resist that tasty combination, especially when Rosh Hashanah comes at the peak of apple season? And, I love the physical aspect of dipping the apple into honey as a symbol of our hopes for…
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Jerusalem, Revisited
Isreali chef Yotam Ottolenghi (right) and Palestinian chef Sami Tamimi (left) have worked together in London for over a decade. Yotam Ottolenghi could simply have left Jerusalem behind. Nearly 15 years after coming to England and a decade into building a growing empire that includes a small constellation of wildly popular London restaurants and two…
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Eating Out: Rosh Hashanah Dinner
Whether the thought of cooking another kugel drives you insane or you’re just too far away to go home for the holidays, these restaurants have your back in the tastiest of ways. While some chefs have opted to go the more traditional route by doing their best to recreate one of grandma’s meals, others use…
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Rest in Peace, Kosher Parmigiano
On May 20, a devastating earthquake hit Emilia-Romagna, a region in northern Italy. More than 600,000 wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano fell from shelves where they were aging and ended up broken and humiliated on the floor. Since then, consumers, nonprofit organizations and businesses have made an extraordinary effort to ensure that the damaged wheels don’t…
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Recipes Mixing Bowl: Ruth Reichl’s Matzo Brei; Shabbat Chicken
The secret to feeding a picky child? Matzo brei says Ruth Reichl. [Gilt Taste] Serious Eats hung out with one of our favorite chefs, Israeli-New Yorker Einat Admony. Check out their great Q and A. [Serious Eats] To Market, To Market. Take a tour of a Schwartz’s Kosher Supermarket in Williamsburg and see what Old…
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Trading Ham for Turkey this Rosh Hashanah
The power of food never ceases to amaze me. It has the power to not only provide nourishment for our bodies, but it can build bridges in the most seemingly unusual and unexpected ways. This Rosh Hashanah marks my second as a Jewish woman. I converted in August 2011, though I’d considered myself Jewish for…
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Can Jezebel Succeed as Kosher Hot Spot?
From the street, Jezebel does little to announce itself. Save for a menu in the window, there’s absolutely no indication that there’s a new restaurant on this stretch of West Broadway in lower Manhattan, let alone an upscale kosher one. But on the other side of its door, yarmulkes abound among the plush furnishings, and…
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Recipes Rosh Hashanah, Indian Style
As I contemplated my Rosh Hashanah dinner this year, memories of my childhood growing up in Israel came sweeping over me. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, in the afternoon hours, my mom would send my siblings and me to make a quick run to the corner grocer before the owner closed down the shop….
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