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Culture Old World, New World Variations on Brisket
There are few holiday foods that call up tradition and memories as much as brisket or brust, as I’m told my great-grandmother called it. There are endless variations of recipes — each one boasting local influences from sweet paprika to Coca-Cola to spicy Mexican chiles. This Passover season, we share with you a recipe from…
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Fast Forward Passover Con Guacamole
During Passover, most American Jews forgo the zesty tacos and tortillas they savor all year. But what if someone knew how to prepare Mexican food without flour or leavening? What if his recipes were served during the holiday’s eight days in an upscale restaurant? “Several years ago I began experimenting with the infusion of Mexican…
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Recipes Gefilte Fish, Fried to Perfection
Americans are notorious for consuming fried foods, including the recent trend of deep-frying the Thanksgiving turkey. Yet our affair with hot oil has never spilled over into the realm of gefilte fish, much to the chagrin of Jews across the Atlantic. Fried gefilte fish might sound a bit unsettling to those familiar with the poached…
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Recipes Kitchen Sink Yellow Split Pea Soup
I know you know how it is. You look in the fridge and see half a cauliflower here, half a bunch of kale there, maybe a few lonely carrots or turnips hiding beneath the kale at the bottom of the drawer. And a new CSA box is due in a day or two. Times like…
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Culture Happy Ending
The following celiac-friendly dessert recipe is from Susie Fishbein’s new cookbook, “Passover by Design” (ArtScroll Shaar Press). Lemon Meringues pareve, non-gebroktsmakes 6 servings Meringues: 2 egg whites pinch of fine sea salt ½ cup sugar, super-fine if possible ½ teaspoon vanilla extract ¼ teaspoon almond extract Lemon Cream: 1½ cups sugar ¹⁄³ cup potato starch…
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News Ethiopia: The Other Exodus
Few stories capture the dramatic flavor of the Exodus as well as that of the Ethiopian Jews. After millennia of being subject to the whims of an oppressive society, the bulk of Ethiopia’s Jews — some with a layover in the Sudanese desert — left the land of their birth for the Promised Land in…
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News When Hearty Gefilte Fish Kept Shtetls Stuffed
Gefilte fish is at once the zenith and nadir of Ashkenazic cookery: Is there any other dish that so typifies its extraordinary resourcefulness in the Old World and its long decline in the New? Gefilte fish is a forcemeat — chopped and seasoned meat or fish usually used for stuffing — made from ground-up freshwater…
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