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Meet The Healthy Kosher Cookie Queen
Chocolate chip cookies are not exactly synonymous with health, but when you talk about Sweet Loren’s, the woman-owned, nationally distributed cookie dough company, health is exactly what you’re talking about. Growing up in New York, Loren Brill was always interested in health and wellness. Then tragedy struck. “Right after I graduated college I got sick…
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3 Top Jewish Foodies Dish On The Hottest Trends For 2018
From gourmet seltzer to jackfruit and ghee, 2018 is shaping up to be an interesting year. “I think, as a culture, we’re moving away from the “meat and potatoes” brand of eating,” Sylvia Fallas, a Brooklyn based cooking instructor and blogger, told me. “Local and seasonal vegetables are becoming the stars of our meals, and…
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When Shabbat Dinner Means Bacon Cheeseburgers At Wendy’s
Imagine the scene. It’s Friday night in Palm Desert, California, and you’ve got nothing to do, so why not head down to Wendy’s, the fast-food chain with 6,500-plus locations (none of them kosher)? At least that’s what this group of Jewish senior citizens thought. At Wendy’s, these seniors enjoy a weekly Shabbat dinner where they…
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Virgin Atlantic Calls Couscous Salad ‘Palestinian’ — And People Lost It
(JTA) — Not even couscous is safe from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For decades, Israelis and Palestinians have fought over land. They’ve fought over history. They’ve fought over holy sites and religious doctrine and water sources. Now, apparently, they’re fighting over the delicious grain dish that I always buy when I go to the supermarket, because…
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Bringing Ethiopian — And Israeli — Cuisine To Harlem Restaurant
(JTA) — At Tsion Café in Harlem, visitors can order a vegetable injera, an Ethopian sourdough flatbread topped with vegetable, lentil and chickpea stews. There is traditional shakshuka, a dish common in Israel and the Middle East where eggs are cooked in a hearty tomato sauce. And then there’s the scrambled eggs with caramelized onions…
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Jews and Chocolate: From Generation To Generation
Jews have had an appetite for chocolate for generations. A tin of Barton’s Almond Kisses. A stretchy yellow pouch of Elite Gelt. Imagine the intersection of Jewish life and chocolate, and those are the markers that likely come to mind. Less likely, but no less pivotal, is the liquid delicacy that Inquisition-era Sephardi Jews introduced…
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‘[Semite] Sweet’ Chocolate Exhibit Is Perfect Valentine’s Day Excursion
The last time I was in a gallery that smelled distinctly and deliciously of chocolate I was in Barcelona visiting Museu de la Xocolata. That is, until this week, when I entered the Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica at Temple Emanu-El on New York’s Upper East Side (where my grandparents were members), to…
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What Do You Call Champagne In Hebrew?
Valentine’s Day isn’t exactly the most Jewish holiday. The holiday gets its name from Saint Valentine, who valiantly tried to preach the word of Jesus of Nazareth and ended up being executed by the Roman Emperor Claudius II for trying to convert Claudius to Christianity. These days, everyone from Jews to Christians celebrate a more…
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Recipes Kids’ Valentine Cooking Project Gets A Jewish Twist
Our family likes to celebrate Valentine’s Day, which I realize isn’t a Jewish holiday, but makes for harmless fun, especially when the grandkids are involved. Some of the best times are when we cook together. The children feel proud of their efforts and wind up with something delicious. I get to pass on a zillion…
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Selling Brooklyn Bagels To An Indian Chief
The Brooklyn Bagel Bakery was founded in Los Angeles in 1953 by Brooklyn transplant Seymour Friedman, whose son, Richard, took over the business in 1981, and ran the bakery until his retirement in 2015. The ad above illustrates the bakery’s strategy, early in its history, of attempting to appeal to non-Jewish consumers. Today it hangs…
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The New ‘Bagel’ Emoji Is Barely A Bagel And Needs To Be Banned
The Unicode Consortium, the mysterious not-for-profit tasked with making sure that emojis are consistent across smartphones and computers, likely expected that they would receive unanimous praise for the 157 new emojis that they unveiled on Wednesday. After all, previous rollouts of new emoji symbols have allowed for increased representation by users, with pictograms of things…
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