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Books Getting Close to Your Food Is Harder When Meat Is Involved
On Monday, Sue Fishkoff wrote about people who only keep kosher on holidays. She is the author of “Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority.” Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author…
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The Schmooze The Allure of Kosher Food for the Jewish Holidays
Sue Fishkoff is the author of “Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority.” Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog series. For more information on the series, please visit: When I’m…
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The Schmooze Modern Orthodox Top Model Gets Cut
So much for an Orthodox “America’s Next Top Model” winner. This week, Esther Petrack, an Israeli-born Boston native, was eliminated from the competition. In the opening episodes of the show, the 18-year-old caused a ruckus by suggesting that she would break Shabbat if she needed to for modeling jobs. Bloggers criticized Petrack for her lack…
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Food Q&A: Susie Fishbein on Cooking for Teens
This blog is cross-posted from the Joy of Kosher. Click here to read the original post. The release of “Kosher by Design Teens and 20-Somethings” marks the seventh cookbook in the Kosher by Design series for best-selling author, Susie Fishbein. Susie’s latest book is designed for those who don’t want too many steps and/or have…
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Food Q & A: Sue Fishkoff Talks About "Kosher Nation" and Jewish Food
“Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority”, the new book by Sue Fishkoff, which came out last week, is the first comprehensive study of the Jews who produce, regulate, and consume an increasingly vast selection of manufactured and home-grown kosher foods. Fishkoff traces kashrut from its biblical origins…
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Food Yid.Dish: Brisket Goes South of the Border
To reinterpret Tennyson: In the autumn a not-so-young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of brisket. Even in Los Angeles, the alleged city of no seasons, the days get shorter and the evenings get chilly. At such times my thoughts turn to big, comforting hunks of meat. This year I wanted a new twist on…
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Food The Kitchen Table Rethinks Kosher California Cuisine
In New York, Paris and Jerusalem there are several upscale kosher restaurants. In Northern California, there is only one – and “kosher” doesn’t even get top billing at it. The Kitchen Table, describes itself as “a California-style restaurant that happens to be Kosher.” Located on Castro Street’s busy restaurant row in Mountain View in the…
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Food Sipping Under the Sukkah: Kosher Wines
Today The Jew and the Carrot brings you two beverage stories for drinks to enjoy in your sukkah. The first installment explores Kosher wines and this afternoon, check back for the second installment to learn how to infuse rye for the holiday. In past years, most oenophiles have looked at kosher wines as something to…
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