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In an Expansive New Cookbook, Leah Koenig Takes on the Jewish Culinary Canon
What is Jewish cooking? “It depends entirely on whom you ask,” Leah Koenig answers in the introduction to her latest book, “The Jewish Cookbook,” which contains over 400 Jewish recipes from around the globe. “Jewish communities fanned out from the Middle East to places near and far,” she writes. “These communities were bound together by…
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Leah Koenig’s Chicken Hamin (Stew) With Bucatini
Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 8 hours 15 minutes Serves: 6 Like other Shabbat stews, this dish, hamin macaroni, cooks overnight, and is traditionally served at Saturday lunch. Any thick, long pasta will work in this dish, but bucatini holds up perfectly to the low and slow cooking. • 1 pound (455 g) bucatini…
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Toronto’s Newest French Bistro Is Inspired By…The Dreyfus Affair
Pop quiz: What was the Dreyfus Affair? If you’re thinking of the 19th-century case of a Jewish army captain falsely convicted of treason — and a pivotal moment in France’s history — you’re right. But a different Dreyfus affair — lower-case “A” — is unfolding in Toronto, where an ambitious young chef named Zach Kolomeir…
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Buenos Aires’ Famed ‘Mishiguene’ Restaurant Is Popping Up In NYC
Opening a Manhattan pop-up when your Buenos Aires eatery, 5,300 miles south, is still one of the hottest tables in town? A little mishugeneh, right? Exactly. Tomas Kalika, the acclaimed chef of “Jewish Diaspora” eatery Mishiguene, will open a temporary branch of his celebrated restaurant this weekend in a Meatpacking District space run by Lexus…
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Israeli Cuisine Is More Chic Than Ever, In Chicago’s New ‘Galit’
You’ve won a James Beard Award for your Israeli-accented cooking at pioneering New Orleans eatery, Shaya. How do you top yourself? If you’re Chef Zachary Engel, you open your own restaurant — and earn raves. Galit, Engel’s “Israeli immigrant cuisine” hotspot, opened in Chicago this summer to rapturous reviews – “a Middle Eastern masterpiece”, gushed…
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Everything Is ‘Sababa’ In Adeena Sussman’s Long-Awaited Israeli Cookbook
Tel Aviv-based food writer and recipe developer Adeena Sussman radiates a golden glow — and not just because the California native’s ginger-colored hair refracts every ray of Mediterranean sunlight. What Sussman emits is a natural warmth and ease and generosity of spirit, which is captured in her approach to food and shared in the pages…
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Recipe: Sour Lime and Pomegranate Chicken Wings
Dried Persian limes come in two shades—black and a sort of walnut-y tan—and are traditionally dropped whole into Persian stews and soups to add a hint of citrus and the singular funk that only fermentation can. I wanted to spread the love to other preparations, so I crushed the limes into a powder to form…
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Recipe: Pomegroni, A Middle Eastern Twist On Campari
As I juiced my millionth pomegranate of the winter using the hand-cranked press that sits on our counter, it occurred to me: Who needs Campari when you’ve got fresh pomegranate juice? The fruit’s tannic, sweet-bitter taste stands in perfectly for the classic Italian aperitif, especially with a shake or two of bitters to steer the…
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NYC’s Coolest Sandwich Spot Is A Tiny Storefront Run By An Israeli Couple
View this post on Instagram From our neighbor @vidalbenbasat. Thank you! A post shared by Foxface (@foxface_nyc) on Dec 29, 2018 at 6:03pm PST The secret’s out: Manhattan’s coolest sandwich spot is a tiny East Village storefront run by a young Israeli couple who lives upstairs. And it’s got a very Jewish backstory. Foxface scored…
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Leonard Cohen Invented His Own Cocktail. The Jewish Museum Gave It A Happy Hour.
The lobby of the Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan hummed with energy and clinking ice cubes. Museum-goers formed huddles in the entry of the converted mansion — some visitors sat at tables, while others scoured books that are on sale in the museum’s store. Everyone was holding a blush-colored cocktail invented…
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This Miami-Based Israeli Chef Is Here To Teach You How To Properly Use Spices
Amid this year’s bumper crop of Israeli cookbooks, Miami-based Yaniv Cohen has found a new angle. The Israeli-born chef, who bills himself as The Spice Detective, just published My Spiced Kitchen, his first collection of recipes; every dish comes with a breezy treatise on the spice it features. Cohen, who runs Miami’s Jaffa by the…
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