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‘Hot Dudes And Hummus’ Pushes Israel — With Beefcake
Matt Taibbi once called the Internet “an escapist paradise for the emotionally overwhelmed.” I like to to think of it as that, and simultaneously as a dystopian hideaway where people can choose to be informationally overwhelmed. But however we like to think of the Internet, one thing stands out. The beloved Instagram account Hot Dudes…
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Recipes Big Daddy’s (Kosher) Fish Soup
Ingredients: 2 lbs. fish heads, bones and trimmings 3 cups water 1 cup dry white wine 2/3 cups sliced onions 2 celery tops with sleeves 3 sprigs of parsley 1 bay leaf 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme 1/2 cup olive oil 2 lbs., each of 3 kinds of fish fillets, such as flounder, red snapper, redfish,…
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This Mother’s Day, Go Back To Basics With Churros Waffles
Churros Waffles with Warm Chocolate Dipping Sauce Pareve Yield 8-10 waffles To be honest, I struggled with the decision to place these in the breakfast chapter or the dessert chapter. Churros waffles are certainly great for dessert, but sometimes … you just need a real “special occasion” breakfast, and they are perfect for those times….
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How To Make Creole Cuisine Kosher (Hint: Start By Leaving Out Shellfish)
There’s a dearth of female celebrity chefs in the stratosphere right now. But even more tragic than all that is considering the female chefs whose culinary contributions are not widely known, to whom history hasn’t given its due. One such woman was Mildred Lubritz Covert. Who? You’re probably asking. She doesn’t have the name recognition…
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In Ancient Jewish Texts, Bread Was A Euphemism For Sex. Here’s Why.
“Cooking is one of those arts which most requires to be done by persons of a religious nature.” — Alfred North Whitehead Bread or sex? It’s a time-honored question, with its attendant subtexts. Would you rather engage in pleasures of the flesh or devour a bunch of doughnuts? With gluten allergies on the rise, maybe…
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Rachael Ray Is Moving On From Just Cooking Shows
In a profile in The New York Times, Rachael Ray has revealed that she is entering her second act. The article was chock full of exciting trivia for Rachael Ray diehards: She washes and irons her own sheets! She’s compared to a friendly shark that needs constant motion to survive! She’s insanely rich but also…
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Netanyahu Served Chocolate Pralines In A Shoe To Japan’s Shinzo Abe
When it comes to food, Israel likes to stay on the cutting edge – most of the time. Occasionally there’s a misstep, like dessert hummus. Sometimes there’s a miscalculation, like tahini martinis. And every now and then there’s a diplomatic disaster with repercussions that may reach far beyond the food world. What happened to Israeli…
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Steve Mnuchin Gives Kushner $21 Bottle of Non-Kosher Wine
He might be a millionaire 300 times over, but he certainly doesn’t drink like one. The Secretary of Treasury headed over to Jared Kushner’s house for a weekend hang, the Daily Mail reports, and brought along a 2015 Arbalest Red Bordeaux Blend. This [non-kosher] wine is a red blend (81% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Sauvignon and…
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Einstein Brothers To Start Offering Mac & Cheese Bagel
If you’re in the mood to live fast and die young, and are craving an absolute carb-palooza, and have the sturdy heart of a Russian-Jewish peasant which laughs in the face of threat, you might want to try Einstein Brothers’ new Mac & Cheese bagels. It’s comfort food on comfort food: The bagel chain Einstein…
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Black And White Cookie Doughnuts Are The Newest Food Abomination
The wheel turns and nothing is new, the saying goes. Except some things are. When our ancestors moved here from the shtetls of Europe, they were not expecting to find their culinary traditions so universally beloved, to the extent that everyone felt the colonialist urge to sink their teeth into them. But sink their teeth…
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Is The Next TV Food Celebrity A Chabad Rabbi?
Much has been made of just how food-centric Judaism is. From latkes on Chanuka to the requisite cheesecake on Shavuot, Judaism can and will make you fat. That’s why ‘how to cook Jewish food’ is such a hot button topic, why the Jewish cookbook market is so saturated (thank God or I’d be out of…
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