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Recipes The spinach frittata that connects me to my Sephardic grandmother
In one of the scenes from my book, “The Poetry of Secrets,” Isabel, the main character is served fritada espinaca, or spinach frittata, at a Shabbat dinner, her first one since she has been captured by the Spanish Inquisition. My choice of that food was deliberate. It’s an homage to my grandmother. She was born…
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Recipes Sweet Peppers with Feta for Sukkot
The harvest holiday of Sukkot feels immeasurably more relatable to me this year than it has in the past, because this year I’m in the midst of my own actual harvest. The garden I planted in the spring has gone from relative order to wildly overgrown; a beautiful, bountiful mess. The carrots, which I wrote…
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Recipes Apples and Honey Chicken for the holiday you forgot about
#tweetyourshabbat is a global movement founded by Carly Pildis, celebrating the struggle and joy of getting Shabbat on the table every week. This is a place for real dinners and real conversations about Jewish life. Join us at Forward in sharing what you’ll be eating and how you’re feeling this week at #TweetYourShabbat The Jewish…
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Recipes End-of-Summer Tomatoes for Yom Kippur Breakfast
As one does this time of year, I’m looking back and thinking about how I spent my time. What might I have done differently or better? More tzedakah and less Netflix jumps immediately to mind. But I’m also looking at what I’ve accomplished. And second only to launching my younger child into a life of…
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Recipes Persian, Greek, Moroccan and other Yom Kippur breakfast recipes, plus kugel
If you are an Ashkenazi American Jew, you might assume that all break-fast meals are the same: bagels, cream cheese, smoked salmon and whitefish, pickled herring, maybe a sweet kugel thrown in to balance the salty. But it’s a great big Jewish world out there and there are lots of delicious ways to end the…
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Recipes Sweet Challah Rolls with Apple Currant Filling
Dairy-free, Nut-free, Pareve Prep Time: 40 minutes/ Inactive Time: 30 minutes/ Cook Time: 27 minutes Challah rolls filled with apples and currants are the ideal sweet baked good for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. I originally developed this recipe for a High Holidays cooking class, but these little gems are perfect all year round….
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Recipes Beth Lee’s ‘The Essential Jewish Baking Cookbook’ has essential Rosh Hashanah recipes
Some day in the (hopefully) not too distant future, when talk turns to how productive or unproductive we were during Covid, Beth Lee will be able to best many of us: She wrote a cookbook. Not only that, but it’s her first. And it came together in a matter of months. “The Essential Jewish Baking…
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Recipes Branzino à la Frank
The fish head is a staple of the Rosh Hashanah feast, a symbol that our year should be like a head and not the tail, but you’ll usually find it relegated to the far corner of the table. Every year, I run out to the fish store before the holidays to purchase a fish head…
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