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Cooking With Coconut Milk
Cross posted from KosherEye.com So, what do you know about coconut milk? Or coconuts for that matter? Yes, coconuts do grow on palm trees. They are considered a fruit and not a nut. They are oval shaped and can weigh up to 3 pounds at maturity and are covered with a husk. Under the husk…
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Noah Bernamoff on the Growth of Mile End Deli
Noah Bernamoff and Rae Cohen made quite the splash (at least in our circles), when they opened Mile End, a Brooklyn-based Montreal-style delicatessen, where they are pickling, curing and smoke everything from scratch. The two now plan to expand their business to Manhattan’s Nolita, where they’ll open Mile End Sandwich sometime around April 23 and…
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Mixing Bowl: Arsenic In Chicken; Hummus Recipe
Spring has sprung and the change is showing in our farmers markets. Here are 16 ways to prepare asparagus. [Serious Eats] Nicholas Kristof illuminates what’s really in commercially produced chicken. [New York Times] Ruth Reichl offers tips for better hummus. [Gilt Taste] If you’re into the whole food trucks in NYC thing, try Grilled Cheese…
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Nutrition and the Jewish Diet
Chicken soup dripping in schmaltz, sweet noodle kugel swimming in cream and butter and sprinkled with brown sugar, potato pancakes fried in oil, with that deep fried odor that permeates the house for days (can’t you just smell them right now?), beef brisket made any number of ways. I imagine many of us have a…
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For Me, Passover Means (Lots of) Eggs
I was making my Passover shopping list the other day when it all came back to me. Eggs! Pesach is about eggs. I had five dozen on my list, and the thought of all those eggs brought back my Passover memories. Of course, eggs are a symbol of spring, for Christians who color them, roll…
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The Bitter Sweetness of Chocolate
“In every generation a person is obligated to see him or herself as though he/she had personally been redeemed from Eqypt,” we read in the Haggadah during our Passover seders. In recalling our people’s experience in Egypt, we are urged to remember that we were once slaves. We tell the details of the story, act…
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Recipes DIY Passover Gnocchi
Judging from the huge sacks of potatoes Jewish home cooks heft into their shopping carts at this time of year, I’m just one more cook going through Passover Potato Dependency or PPD. I imagine thousands of lunchtime plates bearing fluffy mashed potatoes, or golden fried potatoes, all over Israel, every day, for a week. Ballast…
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Hungary’s Rachael Ray Does Passover
Rachel Raj is one of the queens of Budapest Jewish cooking. The daughter of a noted rabbi, she authored a food column for a local Jewish magazine, makes guest appearances on TV talk shows, and a few years back anchored a 10-part series on Jewish cuisine on a leading Hungarian food channel. Writing in Saveur,…
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Recipes No Spuds: ‘The No-Potato Passover’ Cookbook
It may sound impossible, but believe it or not, you can survive a whole week of Passover without eating a single potato. And you don’t even have to eat much matzo, either. This is what Aviva Kanoff is out to prove it in her new cookbook, “The No-Potato Passover.” The book is a helpful and…
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Turning the Tables: Leftover, not Left Out
Jews across the world today will participate in the second-most-common spring ritual — lugging to work and parks brown-bag lunches filled with leftover turkey or brisket and some matzah. Last year at a local farm (a favorite spot for kids on spring break), a group of friends in Los Angeles set up a kind of…
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Michael Twitty’s Edible Scripture
The African American chef in the rainbow kippah looked up from arranging his implements to survey the crowd assembling before him. “What about the people coming in?” he murmured, and was told, “We’re out of chairs.” More than 100 people had come in. The chef’s eyes widened theatrically. “It’s mamash a nais!” “Truly a miracle”…
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