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Gefilte Fish, Fried to Perfection
Americans are notorious for consuming fried foods, including the recent trend of deep-frying the Thanksgiving turkey. Yet our affair with hot oil has never spilled over into the realm of gefilte fish, much to the chagrin of Jews across the Atlantic. Fried gefilte fish might sound a bit unsettling to those familiar with the poached…
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Recipes Kitchen Sink Yellow Split Pea Soup
I know you know how it is. You look in the fridge and see half a cauliflower here, half a bunch of kale there, maybe a few lonely carrots or turnips hiding beneath the kale at the bottom of the drawer. And a new CSA box is due in a day or two. Times like…
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Curried Sweet Potato Latkes From Joan Nathan
Curried Sweet Potato Latke from Joan Nathan’s Jewish Cooking in America 1 lb sweet potatoes, peeled ½ cup all-purpose flour 2 tsp. sugar 1 tsp. brown sugar 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp cayenne pepper 2 tsp curry powder 1 tsp cumin Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 2 large eggs, beaten ½ cup…
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Culture Happy Ending
The following celiac-friendly dessert recipe is from Susie Fishbein’s new cookbook, “Passover by Design” (ArtScroll Shaar Press). Lemon Meringues pareve, non-gebroktsmakes 6 servings Meringues: 2 egg whites pinch of fine sea salt ½ cup sugar, super-fine if possible ½ teaspoon vanilla extract ¼ teaspoon almond extract Lemon Cream: 1½ cups sugar ¹⁄³ cup potato starch…
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Yid.Dish: Fava Bean Soup
2 or 3 pounds fava beans Extra Virgin Olive Oil 3 leeks* 2 or 3 stalks green garlic* 2 cups vegetable broth 1 lemon Salt and pepper Boil some water. While waiting for water to boil, remove fava beans from their pods. When water is boiling, add favas for three minutes. Strain, and run cold…
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News Ethiopia: The Other Exodus
Few stories capture the dramatic flavor of the Exodus as well as that of the Ethiopian Jews. After millennia of being subject to the whims of an oppressive society, the bulk of Ethiopia’s Jews — some with a layover in the Sudanese desert — left the land of their birth for the Promised Land in…
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News When Hearty Gefilte Fish Kept Shtetls Stuffed
Gefilte fish is at once the zenith and nadir of Ashkenazic cookery: Is there any other dish that so typifies its extraordinary resourcefulness in the Old World and its long decline in the New? Gefilte fish is a forcemeat — chopped and seasoned meat or fish usually used for stuffing — made from ground-up freshwater…
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