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Cocktails Dedicated To History’s Unsung Jewish Heroines
The following is an excerpt from “Drinking Like Ladies: 75 Modern Cocktails From The World’s Leading Bartenders.” These sassy broads, and the classic cocktails dedicated to them, are unsung heroines of Jewish history. Peruse through the biographies of these history-making heroines and then mix yourself the cocktail dedicated to them. It’s four o’clock somewhere and…
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The Charlotte Russe Is Making A Comeback
What is a charlotte russe? It’s a Jewish dessert that fell by the wayside. It’s a forgotten piece of Jewish culture. As Leah Koenig wrote for Politico, “Eighteenth-century European aristocrats knew Charlotte Russe as a cake made of ladyfingers pressed into an elegant mold, filled with thick custard or Bavarian cream, and flavored with cooked…
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Kylie Jenner Shares Her Matzo Ball Soup Recipe
I didn’t want to do this. But there comes a time in every media writer’s life in which she must choose whether or not to write about the Kardashian-Jenners. Today I didn’t have a choice. Because, according to her Insta Story, Kylie Jenner made matzo ball soup —and it really isn’t that bad. The matzo…
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How We Ate In The 60s
Cookbooks are sorts of time capsules. Open one from a previous era, and comb through old recipes to find evidence of what the people who came before me cooked. So when I heard talk swirling around the interwebs of a cookbook dedicated to a decadent recreation of the 60’s, I was excited to scan the…
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Josh’s Deli Is The Most Non-Kosher Jewish Deli Ever
Happy holidays from my lil fam to yours. #fakedelicheer #butforrealhappiness A post shared by josh (@joshsdeli) on Dec 24, 2017 at 4:57pm PST Josh’s Deli, run by Josh Marcus, offers a spin on traditional Jewish deli food. It’s located in the Orthodox area of Surfside, Miami, surrounded by Jews who don’t mix milk and meat…
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Recipes The Only Harissa Recipe You’ll Ever Need
In Tunisia, harissa is served as a dip, drizzled with olive oil, and often garnished with canned tuna and olives. It is a fixture of most main meals, brought to the table with bread before any other food is served. The chilies used for harissa in Tunisia are very mild and I usually bring back…
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Anissa Helou Traveled The World, Searching For The Flavors Of Islam
“Her range of knowledge and unparalleled authority make her just the kind of cook you want by your side when baking a Moroccan flatbread, preparing an Indonesian satay and anything else along the way.”— Yotam Ottolenghi Anissa Helou’s new book “Feast: Food Of The Islamic World” seeks to cover the depth and breadth of the…
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Four Easy Summer Salads For A Middle Eastern Fête
Last June I was in Israel, where almost every meal begins with a gorgeous array of small plates, collectively called mezze. These include hummus and other dips, along with a vibrant variety of salatim — salads — made from the ever-abundant local produce. Here in the Northeast corridor of the United States, June is when…
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Jonathan Safran Foer and Natalie Portman Get Real About Veganism
Jonathan Safran Foer’s seminal work “Eating Animals” has a reputation that precedes it. “It’ll turn you into a vegan,” I was warned, repeatedly, when I started reading it. “It turned Natalie Portman into a vegan.” While “Eating Animals” ultimately held less sway over me than a schnitzel baguette does, the book certainly made me feel…
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Synagogues Are Going Vegan. Is Tofu Cholent The Future Of Kiddush?
The Synagogue Vegan Challenge was simple. Five synagogues. $25,000, distributed equally between them. A commitment to giving a year’s worth of vegan programming. Funding was provided by VegFund, a program that provides grants vegan activists of all sorts. The money, as per the Q&A on the site, is designated only for the purchasing of vegan…
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Making Recycling A Norm In The Religious Community
ReJews is a nonprofit organization that bills itself as the face of recycling in the Jewish world. Environmental consciousness is rarely seen as a uniquely Jewish concern, sidelined for the more flashy causes of Arab-Israeli coexistence, religious rights, concerns about assimilation and the like. But recycling is important, according to Henry Goodelman, ReJews founder, and…
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