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Q&A: Mimi Sheraton Talks New York City Jewish Restaurants
Mimi Sheraton, the iconic restaurant critic for the New York Times from 1975 to 1983, is known for balancing traditionalism with an open mind. A longtime resident of New York City, she has chronicled the ever-changing restaurant scene with incomparable precision. Sheraton, who is currently writing for the New Yorker, recently sat down with JCarrot…
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Mixing Bowl: Olive Season in Israel; Famous Vegans; Perfect Shabbat Chicken
After our Q & A earlier this week with Matisyahu, we’re thrilled to read the Village Voice headline: “Meatless Moguls: Bill Clinton, Russell Simmons, and Steve Wynn Among the Planet’s ‘Power Vegans’.” And for those who like meat, but prefer their veggies, New York magazine announces “Here Come the Vegivores” in an article that explores…
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More Kippahs Than Kilts at WhiskyFest 2010
As the Forward’s international whisky correspondent I was hoping for some modest representation of the tribe at the 2010 New York WhiskyFest this Tuesday. What I wasn’t ready for, though, was a minyan davening maariv in the lobby just before the doors opened for the non-VIP guests. That sense of hevruta set the scene for…
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Fighting Food Demons with Kashrut
My first roommate nine years ago told me a secret to stop snacking at night: eat one small piece of sliced turkey. Then, as someone who keeps kosher, I wouldn’t be tempted to eat any dairy cookies or ice cream for the rest of the night. It actually worked. Another kosher diet success story was…
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Cooking Shabbos Dinner After the Clocks Fall Back
I don’t usually make it my business to tell people how to spend less time in the kitchen. I can bang together a five-minute meal with the best of them but, time permitting, I prefer to tie on an apron and stay a while. Especially when the clocks fall back, and darkness seeps in around…
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Culinary Nationalism: Pride of the Plate
Most New Yorkers I’ve spoken to think Hungarian cooking is the oil-soaked stuffed cabbage served up at every synagogue dinner or worse, the dry kokosh cake (a long yeast-chocolate roulade) old-fashioned New York bakeries so pride themselves on. But good Hungarian food, the kind made lovingly in private kitchens, is completely different, almost unidentifiable to…
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Faith in Food: Honoring Our Values with the Food We Eat
…Please bless me with the rice of truth and self-restraint, the wheat of compassion, and the leaf-plate of meditation. Bless me with the milk of good karma, and the clarified butter, the ghee, of compassion. Such are the gifts I beg of You, Lord… This Sikh prayer was recited before the lunch at the Alliance…
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All Shakshuka’d Up: Eggs Israeli Style
A culinary confession: During my first weeks as an exchange student in Israel, I walked by a roadside café and peered at the fare on offer, and there it was, right next to the hummus and salad: something that looked like eggs swimming in tomato sauce. I thought it was probably the most unappealing dish…
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Q & A: Matisyahu Talks Veganism and Cholent
You likely know Matisyahu (born Matthew Paul Miller) as the Hasidic musician who blends classical Jewish themes with reggae sound, but what you may not know is that he’s also a loyal and strictly kosher vegan both at home and when he’s on tour. The reggae star known for such songs as the 2010 Olympic…
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Mixing Bowl: The History of the Latke; Kosher Japanese Cooking
Moment Magazine traces the history of the latke and its competition, the sufganiya. Spicing up traditional Hannukah fare: Mexican food takes on the miracle of the oil with spicy zucchini latkes and brisket tacos. Joy of Kosher talks with a rock-star winemaker in California that has just gone kosher. The Jerusalem Post argues that kosher…
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‘Eating the Fat’ and ‘Drinking the Sweet’ on Sigd
The 29th day of Cheshvan (November 6th, this year), exactly 50 days after Yom Kippur, marks the Ethiopian Jewish holy day of Sigd, a celebration of the Ethiopian fall harvest and a day where Jews in Ethiopia historically reaffirmed their belief in the Torah and expressed their yearning to return to Israel. The holiday is…
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