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Haimish to Haute in New York
Matzo ball soup at Nolita’s most au courant café? Kreplach at Tribeca’s latest New York Times-reviewed eatery? Kasha varnishkes by iconic New York chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten in Union Square? You can stop rubbing your eyes: Jewish food is indeed having its New York makeover moment. After years of watching other iconic immigrant cuisines burnished for…
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Recipes Spring Into Passover With a Seasonal Soup
Passover (Chag Ha Aviv, or the holiday of spring) is meant to do more than recall the story of our Exodus from Egypt; it also is a time to celebrate the abundance of earth’s newest bounty of vegetables and herbs that have just sprouted. Nearly 60 days ago, on Tu’Bishvat we planted seeds that would…
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Kutsher’s Tribeca Matzo Ball Soup
This recipe, from a dearly departed Tribeca restaurant, includes a turkey leg and chicken feet for additional flavor. Broth 1 3-pound whole chicken 1 turkey thigh, leg or 2 wings 1 pound chicken legs 1 head of garlic 1 carrot, chopped 1 celery stick, chopped 1/2 cup onion, chopped 4 sprigs fresh thyme 6-10 black…
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Recipes Passover Recipes From Israel’s ‘Biblical Chef’
Allison Kaplan Sommer took a foraging walk with Israeli Chef Moshe Basson. Check out what she learned here and read on for Passover recommendations and recipes from the chef. Maror When most of us think of bitter herbs on the seder table, we think of bottled beet colored or white horseradish bought at the grocery…
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Story of a Fishpond in Rural Mexico
This is the story of a fishpond. Not just any old fishpond, but a fishpond in Muchucuxcah (Pronounce the x like a sh), Mexico, four hours west of Cancun. I was in Muchucuxcah for ten days in January with American Jewish World Service’s Rabbinical Students Delegation. We were there to learn about global poverty, to…
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Gourmet Seders, Restaurant Style
If you want to skip the cooking this year, and leave the seders up to the professionals, we really can’t blame you. Here are 19 restaurants across the country offering seder dinners. You don’t have to do much, just make a reservation (in most cases), show up and be treated to a tasty meal. Another…
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Mixing Bowl: Passover Recipes and Jewish Restaurant News
These Kosher for Passover breakfast options actually make Passover food sound delicious: smoked salmon hash, asparagus frittata with horseradish sour cream and matzo granola. [Chow] Jewish Spanish restaurant La Vara is finally getting ready to open. We can’t wait to sample the menu. Get a sneak peak here. [Grub Street] Consumer Reports tries to pick…
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Recipes Shabbat Lunch is a Country Song. Who Knew?
Yesterday, I listened to a country song on the radio, a lyrical lament of a time gone by, as country songs often are. But one line made me laugh: “sittin’ around the table don’t happen much anymore.” It doesn’t, at least not at my house Sunday through Thursday. Though my kids are still small, we…
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Murray Lender of Lender’s Bagels Dies
Murray Lender, unfortunately, did not live long enough to read in the upcoming May issue of Consumer Reports that it gave his frozen bagels high marks (while daring to question the supremacy of the New York bagel, no less). Lender, 81, died in a Miami hospital on March 21 from complications from a fall, according…
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Raw Chocolate Love
The Internet, for me, is more than a tool for research and convenience. It is a medium for discovery which leads me to exciting uncharted territory, and, admittedly, the occasional obsession. My latest find? The kosher vegan subculture. The links between Judaism and veganism are certainly understandable — both promote a particular sort of awareness…
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Slivovitz Neat and Cocktailed
While reporting ?If the Slivovitz Hasn?t Killed You Yet, Have Another Shot,? for the Forward?s food and drink section, I talked to a lot of serious slivophiles. Some of them discovered the super-potent plum brandy later in life, but for many the appeal went back to childhood, growing up in families who drank slivovitz in…
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