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 Beyond the Bagel — The Shuka Truck
Purely for research purposes, you understand, the author sampled both the traditional red shakshuka and the green version, with a sauce of asparagus and spinach. The website for — a recently opened, kosher-certified food truck in New York City — says it opens for business at 9 in the morning. That makes sense. Shakshuka, a…
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Food Cool Jewish Cuisine at Street Fair This Sunday
We loved the Workmen’s Circle Taste of Jewish Culture](https://forward.com/food/202655/nouveau-jewish-food-hits-streets-of-manhattan/ “” “”) street fair last summer, and [this year’s edition looks even richer. Nouveau-Jewish food vendors will descend on New York’s Avenue of the Americas at 46th Street on June 21 — think cool kids like , Black Seed Bagels, Oddfellows Ice Cream, Shelsky’s of Brooklyn,…
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Food Amy’s Kitchen Tries Organic Fast Food
Frozen food is just the beginning: Amy’s Kitchen will be serving up fresh fare at a new fast food joint. When I reach the frozen food aisle at the supermarket, I immediately look for Amy’s Kitchen products. So I was ecstatic to hear the good news: The food producer famous for its homemade, organic, and…
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Food Slaying the Goose and Lifting the ‘Cellophane Veil’
Goslings enjoy a moment in the sun. On a bright, sunny, freezing morning this past December, I was covered in goose down. The parents of a friend of mine from Philadelphia own a small piece of land an hour west of the city, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Every year, they used to hire a local…
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Food 50 Experiments With Tahini
Tahini, the main ingredient in sesame halva, can be mixed with countless other flavors. Recently, a good friend of mine invited me over for breakfast. She knows me well, so she didn’t omit any of the foods I love to eat in an Israeli breakfast: shakshuka, a good white cheese, Arab salad, homemade bread… There…
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Food Beet, Chocolate-Pistachio and Chia Tahini Recipes
Beet tahini and silan (date honey) tahini make a brightly colored pairing. After tasting a beet-flavored tahini dip recently, I decided to . With the help of 20 pounds of tahini, I came up with a few dozen extremely easy recipes for colorful, flavorful tahini. Here are a few to get you started: Read 50…
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Food Carnegie Deli Shut Down Over Illegal Gas Line
For once, you won’t have to deal with long lines at today. But that’s because the Midtown sandwich-and-schmooze institution has been closed by Con Edison, New York’s power company. Con Ed contends the Carnegie used “a Y-shaped piece of plumbing” to misappropriate natural gas for six years until it was abruptly shut down on Friday,…
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Food Foodie Schmooze Fest at 92nd Street Y
The talk will include a slideshow of images, including this one, from Aaron Rezny’s book “Eating Delancey.” Image courtesy of 92nd Street Y For New Yorkers, the Lower East Side has long been the go-to neighborhood for classic Jewish food. In recent years, though, the area has lost some of its kosher cred, with the…
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