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Food Lilly Zabar’s famous chicken soup and matzo balls
This recipe is from “Zabar’s: A Family Story, with Recipes” by Lori Zabar. Chicken soup is the perfect balm for homesickness as well as for physical ailments. While Louis, Ada, Rose, and Lilly were acclimating to their new country, chicken soup with matzo balls evoked memories of the childhood warmth and security that had been…
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Food Korean chicken soup is also Jewish penicillin
There’s nothing uniquely Jewish about chicken soup. There, I said it. Everywhere on earth where there are chickens — which is everywhere on earth — people soupify them. Some versions are every bit as spectacular as the one you’ve come to know. And yes, depending on what you are hungry for at the time, some…
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Food Everyone needs a go-to matzah ball soup recipe
You really just need one, dependable matzah ball soup recipe in your life, and this is it. Tried, true, trusty — and really, really good. Is the broth golden-hued and clear, but rich in chicken-y flavor? Check. Can you taste the fresh carrots, celery and onion? Check. Does spring, in the form of fresh bright…
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Food Use every part of the chicken soup with schmaltz-roasted potatoes
We all have to do our part to end America’s food waste addiction, right? Some 40% of food grown and prepared in this country gets tossed. Putting aside our growing problem with hunger and food insecurity, that food waste means the water, land, energy and labor that went into producing it all does to waste…
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Food WATCH: Your Jewish Grandmother’s Cure For The Common Cold
The arrival of cold season is loudly heralded by advertisements for flu shots and the sounds of sniffles on buses and trains. Colds are inescapable and still, year after year, armed with folk medicine and fierceness, we resolve to cure the incurable. Thankfully, Jewish tradition, from Maimonides to the shtetl, offers us some guidance for…
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Food Here Are The Most Surprising Ingredients To Take Your Chicken Soup To The Next Level
Continuing in the tradition of pulling the curtain off the weird, delicious, and unexpected secret ingredients in Jewish foods — today we have chicken soup, that eternal Jewish comfort food. In fact, soup is one of the most forgiving recipes you can ever make in a kitchen. It absorbs the mistakes you make, it doesn’t…
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Recipes Estelle’s Chicken Soup
Makes about 6 quarts, serving 8 to 10 EQUIPMENT Large slotted spoon 10- to 12-quart stockpot Tongs INGREDIENTS 6 quarts chicken stock 1 (4-pound) chicken, preferably all-natural or organic, cut into 8 pieces 1 carrot, trimmed, peeled, and cut into ¼-inch cubes 1 small onion, cut into ¼-inch cubes 1 leek, white part only, trimmed,…
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