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British Airways Serves Kosher Meal — With Shellfish
On a flight from Tokyo, Jewish News reported, a Jewish passenger was shocked to find shellfish listed as an ingredient in his Beth Din certified kosher meal. Jewish law requires marine life to have fins and scales in order to be considered kosher. Shellfish is a big no, yet that (and mollusks) were listed as…
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Recipes This Is The Perfect Artichoke-Inspired Tahini Vinaigrette For Summer
This flavor matrix, created by James Briscione and Watson, an IBM supercomputer, shows which unlikely flavor pairings are most likely to go with artichoke. Using that, the recipe listed below was created. Check it out for the perfect summery vinaigrette. Tahini Vinaigrette Makes about 1 cup Inspired by the artichoke’s unique chemical makeup, this dressing…
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Recipes Introducing Chicken And Mushroom Burgers With Strawberry “Ketchup”
This flavor matrix, created by James Briscione and Watson, an IBM supercomputer, shows which unlikely flavor pairings are most likely to go with berries. Using that, the recipe below, which has traveled the world and was the subject of a TED talk, was created: Chicken and Mushroom Burgers with Strawberry “Ketchup” Makes 5 burgers This…
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Recipes Surprise Your Guests With A Chocolate Mousse And Crisp Beet Meringue
This flavor matrix, created by James Briscione and Watson, an IBM supercomputer, shows which unlikely flavor pairings are most likely to go with cocoa. Using that, the recipe listed below was created. Check it out for a surprise flavor pairing that will impress your guests: Chocolate Mousse with Crisp Beet Meringue Serves 6 This recipe…
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How To Create Weird But Brilliant Food Pairings
How does flavor work, exactly? Why does our tongue like what it likes? James Briscione was the Director of Culinary Research at the Institute of Culinary Education and two-time winner of when he was approached by IBM with the offer of an unlikely collaboration. The opportunity to collaborate with a supercomputer chef named Watson to…
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Shakshuka For When You Feel Absolutely Alone In The World
Everyone has those recipes. Those break-the-emergency-glass, cook in times of extreme darkness and desperation, use your tears as a seasoning kind of recipes. When it feels like you’ve fallen down and can’t get up, cooking can be cathartic. You’re feeding yourself and you’re reminding yourself that you matter and that you are important and that…
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This Bagel Shop Is So Hot You Can Only Buy 3 At A Time
At one of the country’s hottest new bagel shops, the big influence isn’t Montreal or New York. It’s Pizza Hut. “In high school, that’s where I learned the assembly-line approach to making sandwiches!”, laughed Nate Mathews, the Richmond, VA artisan-bagel sensation who just opened his first brick-and-mortar location after years of selling at farmers’ markets…
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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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