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Honoring Family Traditions: A Persian Rosh Hashanah Feast
This year the final iftar, or breakfast for Muslims who celebrate Ramadan, falls on the evening of the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Iftar culinary traditions vary widely, much like those for Rosh Hashanah, depending upon the community where it is celebrated and the local foods. Louisa Shafia, author of “Lucid Food: Cooking for an…
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Much Ado About the Bagel Tax
Most locals in New York consider many of the city’s most iconic foods, like a street cart hot dog – best enjoyed while sitting in a park and studiously avoiding thinking about food preparation hygiene – a once-a-year culinary occasion at best. But there’s one New York staple that residents and sightseers, Jews and Gentiles,…
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Drink Your Honey This Rosh Hashanah – Mead and Hard Cider Cocktails
From an Epicurean and symbolic perspective Rosh Hashanah is practically synonymous with honey. This year, in addition to dipping apples into honey, my family will be drinking it as well. Not in its viscous, sticky form, but as mead an alcoholic honey wine, which is a bit yeasty and light in flavor, like wheat beer…
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Banh Mi Finally Arrives for the Jewish Palate
Ever since French colonizers arrived in Vietnam in the mid-ninteenth century and brought their countryside “salad sandwich” with them, which locals set marvelously askew using regional ingredients like cilantro and pickled daikon and carrots, residents of Vietnam have feasted on banh mi sandwiches. But only in the past couple of years, has the delicacy become…
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Memphis in August: (Kosher) BBQ Competition Sizzles
Every August, the parking lot of the Mid-South’s oldest Orthodox congregation fills with BBQ smoke. Forty-two teams from as far away as New York gather here to set up tents and spend most of a Sunday barbequing brisket, ribs, and beans as part of the annual Anshei Sphard-Beth El Emeth (ASBEE) Kosher BBQ Contest and…
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In Search of Mexican Pastrami
When I moved to Los Angeles last year, the first thing I noticed was that everybody here seems busy (but nobody ever gets anything done). The second thing I noticed was that Los Angeles is a pastrami town. I don’t just mean the famous delis like Langer’s and Canter’s. In Los Angeles, pastrami is often…
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Writing Jewish Recipes for Today’s Jewish Cooks with Leah Koenig
Forward Ingredients columnist, and founding editor of The Jew and The Carrot, Leah Koenig talks with us about creating and testing recipes for her upcoming cookbook, The Hadassah Everyday Cookbook: Daily Meals for the Contemporary Jewish Kitchen. Writing Recipes for Today’s Jewish Cooks from Jewish Forward on Vimeo.
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Cooking With the Spices of Israel
“When it comes to Israeli cooking today, it’s not your mom’s kitchen anymore,” according to Ronit Madmone. She and her husband Shuli should know. As owners of Whole Spice, a large spice store in Northern California, a wholesale spice business and an online spice shop, the native Israeli couple keeps up on cooking trends in…
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Fish Recipes
Fish: Baked Fish Provençal Fish Heads Over Rice Fligls Fried Gefilte Fish Gefilte Fish a la Veracruzana (Mexican Fried Fish Balls in Spicy Tomato Sauce) Gefilte Fish in Pomegranate and Horseradish Sauce Grandma Ruth and Jeffrey’s Recipe Gravlax Merluza Con Guisantes (Merluza With Snowpeas) Olive Oil Poached Alaskan Salmon, Potato Latke, Horseradish Crème Fraiche Pesce…
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Soups, Dips and Smoothies
Beverages Candied Ginger Fizz Chocolate Egg Cream Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream Float Soups: 2nd Avenue Deli Matzo Balls Alon’s Matzo Ball Soup “Wedding Style” Borscht Borscht with Cabbage and Mushrooms Cold Sour Cherry Soup Corn Soup Gujarati Mango Soup with Green Chutney Iraqi Soup with Kubeh Dumplings Italian Sabbath Stew (Hamin) Julian’s Matzah Ball Soup…
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Challah and Breads
Bread: Laffa Im Za’atar Mandel Bread Mark Talisman’s Bagels Yid. Dish: Bread Machine Egg Bread Yid.Dish: Beer Bread (AKA Emergency-Use-Up-My-Beer-Before-Passover Bread) Yid. Dish: Onion and Gruyere Tart Yid.Dish: Banana Bread Yid.Dish: Banana Bundt Cake Yid.Dish: Beer Bread from the Edge of Irony Yid.Dish: Chocolate Chocolate Chip Zucchini Loaf Yid.Dish: Cranberry Bread Yid.Dish: Herbed Pizza Dough…
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