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YIVO is offering free online Jewish cooking classes with your favorite foodies
Call this one Fressing with the Foodies. The latest in a series of online courses from YIVO will spotlight Ashkenazi food, with cooking demonstrations by luminaries like Katz’s Deli owner Jake Dell, bestselling author Michael Wex, culinary scholar and chef Michael Twitty, and cookbook authors and Forward contributors Joan Nathan, Adeena Sussman, and Leah Koenig….
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Recipes Falafel and gnocchi recipes via slideshow nurture my daughter long-distance
I’m in quarantine in Massachusetts. My daughter, 21, is locked down in London. I have nourished her though illness, grief, anxiety over exams, boys and college essays. She’s had little distress in her life that hasn’t been soothed by shakshuka, sweet potatoes, or scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. But now, when her need for comfort…
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It’s Mimouna. You can’t have a party, but you can still make mufletas.
If you think seder is tough on Zoom, try mimouna, the Moroccan festival that marks Passover’s end. In normal times, Moroccan Jews throw open their doors and host friends and neighbors with tables full of sweets: candied fruits and vegetables, pastries drenched in syrups, all varieties of cookies and cakes. It’s too many people and…
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Jewish restaurants and community members band together to send food to COVID hospital workers
Comfort food is Mile End Deli’s signature. Now, the Brooklyn-born, Montreal-flavored restaurant is delivering it, literally. Harnessing donations from across the country, the deli is delivering “emergency meals” to hospital workers in Brooklyn and Manhattan. A $10 donation buys one meal, which might include a turkey, chicken salad, or roasted-vegetable sandwich and a side like…
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Kitniyot Kosher for Pesach, Conservative Movement Rules
Editor’s note: In 2016, the Conservative Movement ruled to overturn an 800-year ban on kitniyot, the legumes, corn and rice that observant Ashkenazi Jews typically remove from their homes before Passover. Some Conservative and Reform Jews had been happily enjoying kitniyot on Passover for years. Some began doing so once restrictions had relaxed. Others continued…
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Chicago gets a vegan, traditional Jewish deli in ‘Sam & Gerties’
Though just a month old, Sam & Gertie’s looks like a classic Jewish deli. Crowds line up at a busy counter. Pastrami’s piled high on lush bread. Whitefish salad tingles with smokiness. Deep-orange lox pairs beautifully with house-made cream cheese. But there’s a twist. Nothing in this Chicago hotspot is made with meat. Or fish….
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Vegan hamentaschen from Tel Aviv hotspot Meshek Barzilay
Israel has the most vegans per capita of any country. So it’s only fitting that, just in time for Purim, the chefs at Tel Aviv vegan eatery Meshek Barzilay have whipped up some dairy free hamentaschen — and shared the secret with Forward readers. Toss a batch in the oven for the vegans in your…
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The ‘bagelrito’ has taken cross-cultural food experiments too far
We love cross-cultural kitchen experiments – Jew-panese, Jew-maican, Jew-orican, even Jew-rean (Jewish/Korean fusion). But Einstein Bros might have finally pushed it too far. The national bagel chain this week unveiled the Bagelrito, a hybrid bagel-burrito that’s more Frankenstein’s monster than breakfast breakthrough. The brand boasts about “constantly pushing the boundaries of the classic bagel.” We’re…
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This NYC Bakery Is Now Selling Cake Wrapped In An Etgar Keret Story
Etgar Keret’s new short story might receive some unusual reviews: “Moist!” “Luscious!” ”Crumbly!” That’s because the acclaimed Israeli author has lent his name to a new cake line at Breads, the Israeli bakery with locations across New York. The Keret cake, “a moist crumble cake with a hint of olive oil”, according to a press…
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Solomonov’s ‘Laser Wolf’ Restaurant Opens In Philadelphia
In Fiddler on the Roof, Lazar Wolf was into Tzeitel. In Philadelphia, we’re into Laser Wolf. Named for the wealthy butcher in Fiddler, the newest Israeli eatery from James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov and partner Steve Cook is serving up charcoal-grilled meats and a rotating menu of salatim – the staple salads of Israel…
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Life This Moroccan salmon is a big hit dish at L.A.’s lively Israeli Shabbat scene
It’s like the Bachelor, but louder, more heymishe and with hummus. While the TV series puts one man in a mansion with a bunch of women and conjures up lots of tears and arguments, Yaniv Cohen’s real-life series of massive Shabbat dinners fed tens of thousands of people over the years. This Moroccan-style salmon is…
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