Eat, Drink & Think is your daily destination for recipes, restaurant news, holiday menus and great food journalism — all through a Jewish lens. From the traditional to the cutting edge, we explore the worldwide Jewish culinary landscape and bring…
Food
-
For One Game A Year, The Long Island Ducks Go Kosher
For the fourth year in a row, the Long Island Ducks will go kosher for one delicious night. The team’s annual “Jewish Heritage Night,” this year held on Sunday, August 5, will honor the grand tradition shared by Jews and sports fans: eating well. Jewish food like knishes will be served, along with kosher versions…
-
All Of The NYC Kosher Restaurants Where You Can Devour An Impossible Burger
Everyone loves a big, juicy, sizzling burger — made from fermented veggies? That’s the claim of Impossible Foods, the creators of an entirely plant-based burger that they swear tastes every bit as meaty as the real thing. The result of their 18-month effort, the Impossible Burger, is vegan and certified kosher by the Orthodox Union….
-
August Is National Deli Month. It’s Time To Fress.
Depending on the day, you might hear the Jewish deli is finished — or flourishing. But Ziggy Gruber’s dedication to deli is unwavering. And the Houston-based Kenny & Ziggy’s owner is gearing up for his third annual National Deli Month, August 1-31, which spotlights 19 Jewish delis across the country through signature dishes and charity…
The Latest
-
Israel’s Most Underrated Food Destination
Crowd source on Facebook about kosher eateries in Haifa, and you’re likely to hear crickets chirping. Haifa is known for its co-existence: an exemplary display of what more peaceful times could look like throughout the entire country between Arab and Jew. Haifa is the place to go to see the meticulously landscaped Bahaii Gardens, from…
-
Caviar And Hummus: Where Russian Oligarchs Eat In Israel
A never-ending traffic jam is the hallmark of Tel Aviv’s Ramat Ha’Hayal business district, home to some of the country’s biggest tech and media companies. From the outside, Shallot restaurant is no different from numerous other establishments in the area—a wide-ranging mix of Falafel joints, and medium to high-end eateries. But on a good day,…
-
The Jewish Survivalist Contemplating Kosher After Doomsday
Michael is a modern Orthodox Jew with three kids, a mortgage he’s paying off, and one big storage closet in his house filled with piles of water bottles and baked beans. He thinks disaster might strike soon, wiping out most of the human race and modern civilization and leaving the remainder of humanity to fend…
-
How One Jewish Woman Is Changing The World — With One Jar Of Trash
Amanda Lindner has a jar of trash. It’s not a big jar and it’s not a big amount of trash. In fact, in this five-inch jar is all the trash she’s created in the past five months. When Lindner moved into her first solo apartment in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, she committed to a zero-waste…
-
Making Challah, The Jewish Miracle Bread, With A Syrian Twist
Jack Hazan’s Grandma Peggy called challah “the miracle bread.” She taught him to make it in her kitchen when he was a child — she lived only a few blocks away from his yeshiva, in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. She told him that in Syria, where she and her late husband Albert were from,…
-
The First Jewish Deli In Massachusetts Might Also Be The Last
For years, there was only one Jewish deli in Worcester, Massachusetts. But it was more than a deli. It was a historical landmark, it was a piece of living history and it was a neighborhood meeting spot. A combination of Worcester regulars and curious visitors would drop by to drink a Dr. Brown’s, taste the…
-
For This Year’s Forward Food Awards 2018, We Want Your Feedback
For the 2018 Forward Food Awards, we want to get some feedback from our readers on who they think should be nominated — and why. We want your best, most out of the box ideas. Send us your reliable old favorites along with your latest and trendiest picks. We want to hear about what you…
-
Orthodox Union No Longer Certifying This Controversially Slaughtered Beef
The Orthodox Union has told its approved beef purveyors in South America to stop using a controversial slaughter method. The O.U., which is the largest kosher certifying agency in the United States, sent a letter to its meat purveyors in June notifying them that it would no longer accept meat slaughtered using the “shackle and…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion A Reichstag fire is blazing in Trump’s America and we know exactly who is fanning the flames
- 2
Culture Is Netflix’s new show the most Jewish cartoon ever?
- 3
Opinion Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian come straight from the Nazi playbook
- 4
Fast Forward Minneapolis school shooting suspect had Tree of Life shooter’s name and antisemitic messages on his guns, videos show
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward An effort is underway to launch a Jewish high school in Chicago, where antisemitism concerns run high
-
News 20 years after Katrina, Jewish New Orleans is bigger than it was before the hurricane
-
Fast Forward Beverly Hills school board narrowly votes to fly Israeli flags in effort to combat antisemitism
-
Fast Forward In a first for an Israeli leader, Netanyahu says he recognizes the Armenian genocide
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
