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Breads Bakery Rolls Out A New Line Of Cheesecakes In Time For Shavuot
I won’t mince words here: Cheesecake is the pinnacle of human creation. We can thank Greece for the splendid innovation of the cheesecake, but these days it seems like Jews are at work crafting the most scrumptious cheesecake. May is the holiday when the sun removes its winter hat, when flowers poke their heads above…
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How Did The Pickle Become A Jewish Food Staple?
The pickle! That fermented flavor, that solidly sour mouthfeel, that palate-cleansing post hotdog taste. The bright green, with its violent crunch! How we Jews love our pickles! But how did this love affair begin? Immediately I think of a time when Jewish pickle vendors hawked their wares on the streets of the Lower East Side….
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Masala Mamas: An Indian Cookbook For The Kosher Home
If you ask any of the women in the Kulwa slum how old they are, chances are they’ll shrug their shoulders. These women did not receive enough math education to calculate their ages. Living in a slum, often without running water or electricity, where sewage sluiced through the villages, scarcely conscious of the passage of…
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Mouthwatering Chili Mushroom Pakoras
‘ Chili Mushroom Pakoras (Dumplings, or Tempura-fried Vegetables) These delicious fried dumplings are a perfect snack, side dish or appetizer. It is especially loved by kids, and can be dipped in tomato sauce or chutney. Prep time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes Total time: 25 minutes Makes around 25-30 pakoras · ½ cup/ 120…
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Instead Of Checking For Bugs In Your Lettuce, Check For E.Coli
Don’t eat any lettuce you can’t identify the origin of. That overpriced lunch salad? That heirloom vegetable dinner you had planned? That burger with lettuce and tomatoes? Gone, gone and gone. As an E.coli outbreak spreads across this country and Jewish neurotics like myself take to Google in search of symptoms, the CDC has issued…
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Morrissey Just Compared Kosher Slaughter To ‘Rape’
The man, the myth, the militantly vegan legend. Pop singer Morrissey of the Smiths fame doesn’t speak to the press anymore. So when he posted an interview on his own site, www.morrisseycentral.com, viewers rushed to see what kind of unhinged things he said and were rewarded with talk of Brexit, the debauchery of London and…
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Recipes Kofta Stuffed Dates
Instead of bacon stuffed dates, here’s a savory, kosher spin on the original. Chanie Apfelbaum, otherwise known as @busyinbrooklyn, was kind enough to share this recipe with me, from her upcoming cookbook, Millennial Kosher. 1 lb. ground chuck 2 Tbsp grated shallot 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 Tbsp chopped parsley 1⁄2 tsp cumin 1⁄2 tsp…
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Decline Of The Coconut ‘Macaroon King’
Since 2008, couple Elka Gould and Ami Kaplan, director and producer, have been filming the Badner family coping with the slow decline of their macaroon factory in Williamsburg. A forty-minute film was whittled out of fifty hours of footage, and The Macaroon King documentary was born. The film is an unexpected time capsule into the…
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Orthodox Kosher Foodies Are Taking Center Stage On Instagram
Today’s food celebrities on Instagram are increasingly coming from an unlikely place — the kosher foodies of the Orthodox Jewish community. This phenomenon of religious kosher food bloggers like Jamie Geller, with 33.4k followers (and frequent appearances on TV), or @peasandcarrots , with her 27.9k followers, or @dinidelivers,with her 21.9k followers, may be indicative of…
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What Does Natalie Portman’s Snub Mean For The Israeli Food World?
To a casual observer, Natalie Portman’s abdication from her position of prominent, staunch celebrity Israel supporter might seem shocking. To a more refined class of salariat types (like me, kind of) this position is nothing more than Miss Natalie expressing what she has always believed: that while she is a fan of vegan hummus and…
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Recipes Natalie Portman Inspires Vegan Recipes
When Jonathan Safran Foer published “Eating Animals,” the anti-factory-farming and food-ethics manifesto, it inspired many people to adopt a vegan diet. One of them was Natalie Portman, who took her inspiration one step further: The A-list actress turned the book into a movie. “Eating Animals,” the documentary that she produced and narrated, debuted earlier this…
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