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Food Jewish Gala Food Is Terrible. This Israeli Chef Is Trying To Change That.
A gala used to be an occasion where you would put on your most uncomfortable shoes, totter over to the refurbished lunchroom of your child’s school and sit at a table with ten other people you hated while waiters glumly brought you dishes of overcooked salmon with lethargic sprigs of thyme perched indelicately on top….
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Food Hummus Milkshakes Are Now A Thing
Hummus milkshakes are the newest blight on the ever-changing landscape of Jewish food. Everywhere I turn, new horrors lurk, and new opportunities to make trendy, inedible abominations out of what was once a tasteful, carefully plated delight. I speak, of course, about hummus, and about dessert, and never the twain shall meet. But they have….
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Food The Over-The-Top Cauliflower Dish That Was Made For Instagram
Not that they cared, but fans of the most insane, over-the-top Jewish vegetable dish in the galaxy can breathe easy. The whole roast cauliflower at Toronto’s Fat Pasha, embellished with tahini, skhug, pine nuts, pomegranate and halloumi, got a passing grade today from the Toronto Star. The breakdown: The dish – a constant sellout and…
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Recipes This Is The Perfect Artichoke-Inspired Tahini Vinaigrette For Summer
This flavor matrix, created by James Briscione and Watson, an IBM supercomputer, shows which unlikely flavor pairings are most likely to go with artichoke. Using that, the recipe listed below was created. Check it out for the perfect summery vinaigrette. Tahini Vinaigrette Makes about 1 cup Inspired by the artichoke’s unique chemical makeup, this dressing…
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Food How To Create Weird But Brilliant Food Pairings
How does flavor work, exactly? Why does our tongue like what it likes? James Briscione was the Director of Culinary Research at the Institute of Culinary Education and two-time winner of when he was approached by IBM with the offer of an unlikely collaboration. The opportunity to collaborate with a supercomputer chef named Watson to…
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Food This Bagel Shop Is So Hot You Can Only Buy 3 At A Time
At one of the country’s hottest new bagel shops, the big influence isn’t Montreal or New York. It’s Pizza Hut. “In high school, that’s where I learned the assembly-line approach to making sandwiches!”, laughed Nate Mathews, the Richmond, VA artisan-bagel sensation who just opened his first brick-and-mortar location after years of selling at farmers’ markets…
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Food What Philip Roth Taught Us About The Jewish Appetite, Liver And Beyond
“So. Now you know the worst thing I have ever done. I fucked my own family’s dinner,” Philip Roth famously wrote in Portnoy’s Complaint, a line that remains, decades later, as compelling as the first time I read it. It was the idea of food as sex as solo activity as sustenance. There was an…
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Food European Jewish Food Festival ‘Gefiltefest’ Canceled This Year
When I woke up this morning, I was not aware that a cataclysmic catastrophe had taken place while I slumbered: Europe’s largest Jewish food festival is short a couple dollars this years and will not be taken place. That’s right, no Gefiltefest. Michael Leventhal, Gefiltefest founder, told the JC: “We hope it will be back….
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