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 Introducing The Triple Porker, The World’s Least Kosher Sandwich
If you’re looking to rebel with a little something extra, this might be the most non-kosher sandwich of all time. The Triple Pork Courtesy of Jeff Mauro Makes 4-6 Large Sandwiches Ingredients: 1 2lb Pork Tenderloin, trimmed of silver skin 1 Cup “Zesty” Mustard ½ pound honey maple ham, sliced very thin 12 slices peppered…
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Food The Curse Of The Dairy Kosher Restaurant in Manhattan
Well, another kosher dairy restaurant has shuttered. Basta, the high-end Manhattan eatery, with its selection of Israeli style dairy dishes, was only open for a scant few months before closing its doors again. In reckoning with the departure of Basta, it’s time to ask some questions about how Jews eat – and what that means…
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Food Julia Turshen Is Making Room At The Table
The question of what it means to be fed is one that has haunted sustainability activists for ages: How much is being spent on feeding people? Who gets to be fed? Who doesn’t? Who’s doing the feeding? Julia Turshen, the bestselling author of Feed the Resistance, one of the best cookbooks of 2017, who lives…
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Food These Jewish Sisters Flirt Their Way Into Star Chefs’ Kitchens — At 76 And 81
Call it TV’s most unlikely hit: A pair of Jewish sisters, aged 76 and 81, “flirt” their way into chefs’ kitchens to engineer cross-cultural culinary mashups like dosa burgers and pastrami ramen. But Food Flirts has become a sensation for PBS. And now, siblings Marilynn and Sheila Brass are up for a coveted James Beard…
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Food Buenos Aires Is Experiencing A Jewish Food Renaissance
Buenos Aires’ Jewish texture might surprise a first-time visitor to the city. Storefront signs boast names like Goldstein, Feldman, and Rozenblat. Yarmulkes and Orthodox women’s head-coverings don’t look out of place. And hip coffee shops offer (good!) bagels along with ubiquitous medialunas, or croissants. The Semitic streak extends to Buenos Aires’s embarrassment-of-riches dining scene. You…
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Food Leavened Bread Is Banned In Israeli Hospitals This Week
In Israeli hospitals, visitors were astonished to find their bags rummaged through for contraband upon entry – only in this case contraband was not guns or drugs, but sandwiches and cookies. “The danger is not guns during Pesach, but leavened bread,” said an East Jerusalem doctor. This is certainly proving to be one heck of…
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Food Is Fair Trade Olive Oil The Future Of The Middle East?
What would peace in the Middle East look like? Think abandoned espadrilles, bottles of half-drunk arak, the wind in your hair and unlimited hummus. Can a company dedicated to fair-trade olive oil ever make this dream a reality? Sindyanna, the non-profit organization led by female, change-seeking Israeli Jews and Arabs, believes it can. At least…
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Life Here’s How To Make Russian Jewish Food Healthier
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. When Meribel Goldwin arrived from Belarus in 1994, she was ten years old and skinny. A couple years of eating hot dogs and sliced white bread on a food stamp budget, as well as traditional Russian foods prepared with sugar, salt and hydrogenated fats, turned her into…
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