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Molly Yeh Scores New Food Network Show
We can say we knew her when. Forward contributor Molly Yeh, award-winning blogger, and acclaimed cookbook scribe is about to make a big-time television debut. Girl Meets Farm, a Food Network series, shares Yeh’s infectious love of food as it reflects on her unlikely journey from Jewish-Chinese percussionist food blogger to Minnesota farm-dweller and kitchen…
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What Philip Roth Taught Us About The Jewish Appetite, Liver And Beyond
“So. Now you know the worst thing I have ever done. I fucked my own family’s dinner,” Philip Roth famously wrote in Portnoy’s Complaint, a line that remains, decades later, as compelling as the first time I read it. It was the idea of food as sex as solo activity as sustenance. There was an…
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Muslims And Jews Celebrate Ramadan In Interfaith Dinners Nationwide
This year, Jews and Muslims alike sat down for a halal and kosher iftar feast together in Brooklyn’s Sheepshead Bay. “If [there was] ever a time people come together as Americans and Brooklynites, this is the time,” attendee Benjamin W Schaeffer told the Brooklyn Daily. “When people interact, [they] can appreciate those shared values.” Since…
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European Jewish Food Festival ‘Gefiltefest’ Canceled This Year
When I woke up this morning, I was not aware that a cataclysmic catastrophe had taken place while I slumbered: Europe’s largest Jewish food festival is short a couple dollars this years and will not be taken place. That’s right, no Gefiltefest. Michael Leventhal, Gefiltefest founder, told the JC: “We hope it will be back….
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The World’s First Kosher Cheeseburger Is Here
The trail-blazing Impossible Burger, the world’s only kosher cheeseburger, created sustainably, is now officially on the Orthodox Union’s kosher database registry. The Impossible Burger entered development in 2011 and debuted in July 2016 at the fashionably erstwhile Chef David Chang’s Momofuku Nishi in Manhattan. It’s since won a 2017 Tasty Award and a 2018 Fabi…
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All Your Questions About Jews And Chocolate Answered
Did Jewish refugees bring the art of chocolate making to Bayonne, France? What is a chocolate stone? Was George Washington a big chocolate drinker? What’s the difference between slow chocolate and fast chocolate? The woman who possesses the answers to these questions of our time is Rabbi Debbie Prinz, the foremost expert in our time…
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2 New Kosher Restaurants Opening On The Jersey Shore
The Jersey Shore isn’t exactly the most Jewish place. Unlike the boardwalk on Miami Beach, or Cleveland, Ohio, the Jersey Shore is known for its pizza joints and salt water taffy than its kosher diners. But in Deal, New Jersey, a summer resort town popular in the Syrian Jewish community, new kosher restaurants keep cropping…
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Quai James Does Teshuva At Jewish Soup Kitchen
Quai James is setting an example for how to move on after making a mistake. The 25-year-old from Yonkers who posted a viral video mocking and berating a young Hasidic boy, along with a subsequent, equally viral apology, spent some time volunteering at Masbia, a Jewish soup kitchen. Five hundred people lined up to collect…
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Kosher Pizza And Sushi: An Orthodox Love Story
Judaism is a highly food-centric religion. Maybe the most food-centric of all the religions. Every holiday has its own special foods, every food has its own special blessing, or bracha, before and after eating. Among the potpourri of traditional Jewish dishes, from cholent to borscht to schnitzel to schug — somehow, American Orthodox Jews have…
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Amsterdam Kosher Restaurant Closes Down After Anti-Semitic Attack
Recently, there’s been a string of anti-Semitic assaults against kosher restaurants in Europe. In December, a 29-year old Syrian asylum seeker holding a Palestinian flag smashed the windows of the glatt kosher Carmel Restaurant in Amsterdam and broke into the restaurant, for which he was later charged with vandalism. The shop owner, Sami Bar-On, decided…
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McDonald’s Surrenders To The Magic Of Bagels
What’s next, the McBlintz? To much fanfare north of the border, bagels made their debut at McDonald’s locations across Canada this week. The new breakfast offering “aligns with Canadians’ love of bagels”, the company crowed in a press release. It’s also the company’s latest attempt to capture more of the booming breakfast market – the…
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