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Shabbat Wine Pairing 101
While wine is a crucial element of Jewish religious practice, kosher consumers are not known for their expertise in vino. The stereotype is that Jews prefer sweet wines to the more sophisticated dry wines favored by oenophiles. And, according to Beckey Richards, sommelier at Herzog Wine Cellars in Oxnard, Calif., there’s some truth to that….
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Shechting: The New Jewish Food Fad
We’ve gotten our hands dirty making pickles. We’ve pounded sauerkraut like bubbes from the Lower East Side. We’ve planted herbs in havdallah gardens and we’ve learned amazing new braids for our challah, which we’ve leavened with natural sourdough. The DIY food movement has taken hold of the Jewish community — and it’s logical that after…
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Food and Art Unite at Jerusalem’s Balabasta Festival
Bodies groove to the beat of Mizrachi salsa as an old woman pushes her shopping cart past them. It’s the incongruous world of Balabasta, a festival that merges art, dance and music with Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem’s biggest outdoor market. “The market is the main focus of this festival and is not merely the backdrop,” said…
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Do Cash Purchases Yield a Healthier Diet?
With the opening of this season’s farmers markets, I find myself withdrawing more cash from my ATM — and more cash each week. The vendors do not accept checks or credit cards, so we patrons have to plan ahead or pay nasty surcharges when we run out of money during the middle of a market…
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Mixing Bowl: The Best Hummus; Elk Pastrami and Tongue Tacos
Charges against Julie Bass, an orthodox woman, who was facing charges from her local government for planting an organic vegetable garden in her front yard, have been dropped says Eater. Last week’s announcement of changes in living standards for egg-laying hens has “raised more questions than it answered,” says Mark Bittman. The Jewish classic, cow’s…
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Frozen Friday: Creating a Jewish Ice Cream Flavor
In 1984 President Ronald Reagan declared July National Ice Cream Month. In honor of the month, we’ll be celebrating this delicious food each week with Frozen Fridays, a series about Jews and ice cream. It all started when I tried to make a “Jewish” ice cream flavor. Is there such a thing? I thought about…
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Krakow’s ‘Jewish’ Cafes
Krakow’s old Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, is famous (or notorious, depending on how you look at it) for its Jewish-themed tourist infrastructure. Its “Jewish” cafes present a nostalgic literary image of prewar Jewish life — some with taste and sensitivity, others in a disturbingly kitschy manner. At least a dozen (and maybe more) cafes, restaurants, hotels…
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The FDA and Animal Drugs
For many of us, Shabbat dinner wouldn’t be Shabbat dinner without chicken on the table. Kosher chickens sit on grocer’s shelves, and then on our tables, and finally in our stomachs, all parts of the festivity and tradition of a Friday night. Very rarely do we consider the complex food system that brought the chicken…
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Shabbat Meals: At Home, Away From the War
When my boyfriend, Matt, was called back into the Army to spend a third year at war, I moved into a tiny Brooklyn apartment alone. His recall had been a surprise. We were both working as journalists in New York at the time and had been together for almost two years. He had left active…
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How To Survive the Bacon Boom
If you ask a lifelong kosher eater what the one food is that they wish they could try, or a newly kosher eater what they miss most, the answer is almost always, resoundingly: bacon! As Lenore Skenazy argues in the Forward this week “This is a tough moment to be a Jew. Not because of…
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My Teacher’s Criminal Veggie Patch
Back in the 11th grade, Julie Bass was planting the seeds of civic responsibility and awareness as my favorite high school teacher, at a small Chabad girls’ high school in Oak Park, MI. Today, she faces a misdemeanor and up to 93 days in jail for planting a vegetable garden in her front yard. Ever…
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