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Happy Meals at Home? At Least for Some
In response to a vote to ban toys from Happy Meals, an op-ed in the San Francisco Examiner in early November argued that it’s no biggie. The piece came from Karen Wells, vice president of nutrition and menu strategy for McDonald’s USA. She argues that the boxed meals – consisting mostly of processed foods with…
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Q&A: Janna Gur, From Flight Attendant to Food Editor
The loss of Gourmet magazine for American foodies was immense, but fortunately (for those who read Hebrew atleast) there is a wonderful Israeli counterpart. Started as a trade magazine aimed at culinary professionals, Al HaShulchan (literally on the table) has evolved into Israel’s leading food magazine, read widely by chefs and home cooks alike. We…
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Mixing Bowl: Walmart’s Local Food; A Jewish Thanksgiving
The Jewish Journal, in anticipation of Thanksgiving, ponders how “to turn the Jewish obsession with food into a Jewish call to what is popularly called food justice.” Nikki Cascone, from Top Chef season four, will open Octavia’s Porch, “the first and only Global Jewish restaurant on the Lower East Side” next week, Grub Street reports….
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Not Your Bubbe’s Bacon
As a resident of Brooklyn, it is almost impossible to ignore the presence of bacon. Walking through different neighborhoods you cannot escape the smell of it. The food has become so popular to even warrant a “bacon flight” (a sample of several types of bacon with accompanying whiskeys) at one bar. But what of the…
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Q&A: Jamie Geller Discusses ‘Quick & Kosher’
This blog is cross-posted from Joy of Kosher. Jamie Geller claims she knew nothing about cooking or food until she was married several years ago, left a fast-track career as a New York City television producer to embark on the frazzled career of Jewish wife and mother. Geller tells part of her story in her…
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Mike Tyson May Open Kosher Vegan Restaurants
A few months after he called meat “poison” in a widely publicized Details magazine interview, Mike Tyson may put his money where his mouth is with a chain of vegan – and possibly kosher – eateries. The New York Post reports the retired, facially tattooed boxing champ is in talks with Moshe Malamud of collectible-coin…
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Cooking Shabbos Dinner After the Clocks Fall Back, Part Two
That first Friday after the clocks fall back can be a serious shock to the system. An entire hour of daylight: gone. It’s a bold move. What happens next is more insidious. Over the next month or so, the light will continue to slip away, but quietly, dwindling by mere seconds each day. Those seconds…
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Sustainable Kosher Turkeys for Thanksgiving
For those who keep kosher, every meal is an opportunity to connect the physical earth with the mystical God. If there is one time a year that all Americans get a taste of this experience, it is the ritualized meal of Thanksgiving. Enter a growing awareness about the savagery of the modern meat industry, an…
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Sachlav: The Hot Chocolate of the Middle East
A mug of warm apple cider, a glass of mulled wine, or a cup of hot chocolate is the perfect thing to take off the chill as the air gets nippy and sometimes coming in from the cold isn’t quite enough to warm us up. But what do Israelis – in a country that historically…
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Is the Reform Movement Going Kosher?
This story is cross-posted from JTA. Kosher — it’s the first word in the book. And tackling the “k” word head-on is part of what makes the first Reform guide to Jewish dietary practice so significant. “The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic,” to be published next month by the Reform rabbinical association, uses…
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‘Green From the Ground Up’: Changing Food at Jewish Summer Camp
In the spring of 2010, I wrote a blog about the food we would be serving at the new Ramah Outdoor Adventure, Camp Ramah in Colorado. As the only Kosher shomer Shabbat outdoor adventure camp in the county, and one of the few camps committed to being green from the ground up, we believe that…
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