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Foods of Israel: Schnitzel
Before my recent move to Israel I imagined the food in my new home to be something of a mix between a Jewish deli and a Middle Eastern falafel stand. And while this has proved to be not entirely off-base, schnitzel did not fit anywhere into my expectations. Though, largely unacknowledged by American Jews, schnitzel…
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C’est Délicieux: Joan Nathan Discusses Her New Book on French Jewish Cuisine
Tomorrow Joan Nathan’s delicious new book, “Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France,” debuts. Nathan dug deep into the countryside and cities of France to unearth 200 wonderful recipes and the stories behind them. She talks with Forward Ingredients columnist Leah Koenig about her first food memories in Paris as a…
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An Autumn ‘Blintz Break’
“Blintz break!” This was the catchy alliterative phrase repeated over and over at my family’s all-nighter Shavuot fetes, throughout my childhood. Annually, on the holiday known for its winning combination of marathon night-long Torah-learning and dairy consumption, we’d read a few passages and then – predictably – scream “blintz break,” amped up on coffee, as…
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Mixing Bowl: Biblical Beer; Foodie Halloween Costumes; Croissants in Israel
• Beer might be the “in” drink of the moment, but it goes back as far as ancient Israel. The Biblical Archeology Review this month traces the bubbly drink’s roots in “Did the Ancient Israelites Drink Beer?”. • The Fork in the Road blog reports that the famed Guss’s Pickles, which closed its 85-year old…
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Dipping Into Israeli Olive Oils
You can hardly call Israeli olive oil a new product — the roots of olive trees in Israel can be tracked back at least 7,000 years, and remnants of olive oil presses dating to the 9th Century B.C.E. have been unearthed. (Olives are also one of the seven species mentioned in Deuteronomy.) But the awareness…
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‘Married’ Sardines and a Hug: The Hunt for Israel’s MasterChef Begins
The judges in the Israeli version of the international cooking competition hit “MasterChef” are as warm and supportive as a Jewish mother – but not quite as critical. Their behavior stands in sharp contrast to other countries’ versions of the internationally successful reality format, in which amateur home cooks ranging from high tech executives to…
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Planning a Sustainable Jewish Food Conference
I re-joined the Hazon staff at the beginning of the summer, after a three-year stint at ADAMAH. Since then, one of my major projects has been pulling together the East Coast Hazon Food Conference (our California staff is simultaneously working on the Hazon Food Conference – West Coast). At Hazon, people often ask about what…
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Food from the Tenements: What Jews Ate 100 Years Ago
Borscht? Kugel? Pastrami? What exactly did our ancestors eat when they first immigrated to the United States? This was the question on the table for discussion at a recent “Beard on Books” evening at the Tenement Museum. Jane Ziegelman, author of “97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement,”…
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In Search of Kosher Gumbo
Of all the cultural adjustments that come with moving from the Bible Belt South to the Northeast, the one I was most unprepared for was dietary restrictions. Sure, back in Birmingham I knew the occasional vegetarian but save for a few folks with peanut allergies, most Alabamians are largely omnivorous. Which meant that importing my…
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Q & A: Sue Fishkoff Talks About "Kosher Nation" and Jewish Food
“Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority”, the new book by Sue Fishkoff, which came out last week, is the first comprehensive study of the Jews who produce, regulate, and consume an increasingly vast selection of manufactured and home-grown kosher foods. Fishkoff traces kashrut from its biblical origins…
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iCarly’s Spaghetti Tacos and Making Kosher Cool
I am ever-amazed and conscious of how much peer pressure plays into what we eat. I keep a kosher home and choose to eat only kosher meat outside the house. I feel safe sending my son to school at the JCC because it is kosher, but each time he goes to secular back-up care, I…
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