This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish food, which draws influence from Israeli, Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Palestinian traditions, among others.
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Food What The Recipes You Save Say About You
It’s the recipes we save that say a lot about who we are and what we choose to remember. Saving your grandmother’s brisket recipe is about honoring her memory, not letting her be forgotten, and keeping a small piece of her present. Jews, of all people, know the significance of recipe collecting. So much of…
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Recipes Fruit Soup For Those Days When It Feels Too Hot To Carry On
It’s summertime and the living is easy, but it’s also hot, and the heat is busy sucking away my will to live. It’s days like these that I turn to a time-honored favorite summer staple: fruit soup. I always loved fruit soup because it felt like the kind of thing a fairy might eat out…
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Food The Best Kosher Fourth Of July Hotdog: Hebrew National
On this auspicious fourth of July, Americans will eat about 150 million hotdogs. Baked into the heart of Americana, along with baseball games, a love for country music, fast food and Budweiser, is a love for hotdogs. And according to the Guardian’s definitive study, Hebrew National hotdogs were ranked a solid 7.1 out of 10…
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Food Why Jews Love Japanese Food
Of all the unexpected juxtapositions in the universe, comparing Jewish food to Japanese food might be one of the unlikeliest. Yet a new trend is emerging, and we at the Forward are paying careful attention to it. Consider Shalom Japan, the happy result of a happy intermarriage between the Jewish Aaron Israel and the Japanese…
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Food Does Jewish Food Have A Chance In The Ultimate Restaurant Guide?
Picture this. It’s a hot afternoon in the middle of July and you’re in a foreign country. It’s times like this you might whip out your copy of Where Chefs Eat, a tome from Phaidon, now in its third edition of being a revolutionized restaurant guidebook. Its previous editions were bestsellers, with more than 250,000…
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Recipes This Chrysanthemum and Shiso Watermelon Salad Is The Perfect Summer Dish
Watermelon with Chrysanthemum and Shiso Serves 4 4 large wedges seedless watermelon, rind removed and flesh cut into triangles, about 8 cups 8 ounces ricotta salata, cut into matchsticks 1 bunch of chrysanthemum leaves or baby arugula A handful of shiso leaves or baby arugula 1⁄4 cup pumpkin seeds, toasted Kosher salt and freshly ground…
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Food Rabbis Say Ethiopian Jews Not Jewish Enough To Make Kosher Wine
Barkan, one of Israel’s leading winemakers, recently banned its Ethiopian employees from working in its kosher wine production. After a media uproar in which everyone from Israel’s chief rabbi and political figures like President Reuven Rivlin cried racism, Barkan announced that its Ethiopian staff would be returning to work as usual, almost as if their…
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Community Why Israel Is The World’s Vegan Capital
Unless you have been living under a rock you will probably already know that Israel has become the leading vegan country in the world, with 5.2% of the population eschewing all animal goods in their daily diet. This number has more than doubled since only 2010 when 2.6% of the population was vegan or vegetarian….
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