Sleepaway camps are great: The kids get to run around and be one with nature; while you, the parent, get to enjoy your summer free of kvetchy heat-stroke-afflicted children. But then, the Jewish guilt creeps in, and you begin to get anxious: Are they feeding my child enough? That feeling grows, especially as the letters…
Chocolate was a Jewish immigrant food to the American Colonies, so you can build on those chocolatey Jewish roots when planning your 4th of July menu — starting with the Colonial Jewish-American Chocolate Cake recipe below. In many cases, the resilience of Sephardi immigrants was interwoven with that of chocolate, a New World food. Readily…
This Valentine’s Day you can have your doll and eat it too. Beersheva-born Moran Etstein crafts lacy, ruffled-and-beaded chocolate mini-mannequins to delight fashion fiends and chocolate mavens everywhere. Her passion for chocolate and fashion mix in what she calls her doll-like Fashionistas. The chocolate mannequins are both edible and artful. Talking to me by phone,…
Santa has disappeared from your chocolate Maccabee. This Hanukkah, when you peel the gilded foil from a Maccabee treat, you will no longer reveal a secret Santa. Last Hanukkah Jennie Rivlin Roberts, then the owner of the on-line Judaica shop, Modern Tribe, decided to sample some of her inventory of chocolate Maccabees with some of…
Alice Medrich, chocolatier, author and creator of the “American” chocolate truffle, was instrumental in bringing awareness of artisan chocolate to the United States. In 1973 she promoted the appreciation of dark chocolate, attention to cocoa percentages and awareness of quality chocolate. She opened a chocolate and dessert store in the San Francisco Bay Area in…
When her new chocolate company needed a name, Sara Meyer and her husband, Corey, decided to connect it to his maternal grandmother — Faigele/Faigy/Fay, meaning little bird in Yiddish — and her love of chocolate. Both are memorialized in the name they came up with: Little Bird. While Fay usually kept several boxes of random…
Be sure all ingredients are as cold as possible before you begin. We hear that one of the kosher companies makes mock Kahlua, but that has not made it to the South Side of Chicago. Related Article Tippling Through the Torah 2 scoops chocolate ice cream 2 scoops vanilla ice cream ¼ cup chocolate sauce…
I happened into a chocolate shop, L’Atelier du Chocolat de Bayonne in Paris in 2016 with my husband. As we were tasting and browsing, I randomly picked up a company brochure. In my high school French, I slowly deciphered this astonishing statement: À Bayonne l’origine de la fabrication et de la consommation du chocolat semble…
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