This is the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Rosh Hashanah
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Food Rose Levy Beranbaum Is Back With a New ‘Bible’
Rose Levy Beranbaum. Photograph by Ben Fink. The first time I met the magnificent baker and cookbook author Rose Levy Beranbaum, she brought me a baggie of bread. It wasn’t long after 9/11, and Beranbaum was baking like mad, developing recipes for “The Bread Bible,” which would be published in the fall of 2003. I…
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Recipes Recipe: Honey Cake for a Sweet New Year
Photograph by Ben Fink My fellow writer, talented friend and poet from Montreal, Marcy Goldman, is the authority on Jewish baking in Canada. She has developed the first honey cake I have ever loved, in good part because it is moist, flavorful and not too sweet. Special Equipment: Two stacked baking sheets and one 9-…
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Food Bread and Bakers Rising Together
Baker on the Rise: Most employees graduate to jobs at other bakeries. Courtesy of Hot Bread Kitchen Staff. The week before Rosh Hashanah, inside a low-slung East Harlem building under elevated rail tracks, a crew of women will quietly mix, knead, shape and bake challahs in an immaculate kitchen. Their dough will yield thousands of…
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Food Recipe: Hot Bread Kitchen’s Sephardic Challah
Hot Bread Kitchen’s Sephardic Challah. Courtesy of Hot Bread Kitchen Staff. Active time: 25 minutes Total time: 3 hours 45 minutes, plus cooling Yields: 2 round loaves 3 tablespoons sesame seeds 1½ tablespoons caraway seeds 1½ tablespoons anise seeds 1 envelope active dry yeast 2 cups lukewarm water 5 cups bread flour 2½ tablespoons extra…
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Recipes Joan Nathan’s Italian Plum Tart
Sari Kamin I can never decide what I like better about this Alsatian and southern-German tart: the quetsches (similar to Italian Blue Plums, which are available for a short time in the fall) or the butter crust (called sablé in French and Mürbeteig in German ). On a recent trip to France, I learned a…
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Recipes How Sweet It Is
Homemade honey-vanilla caramel and good dark chocolate raise the old-fashioned caramel apple to the status of a fine confection, to be sliced into wedges and savored at the Rosh Hashanah table. Related article: Choose crisp, juicy new-crop apples that are sensational to eat in the first place. In general I like sweet-but-tart Braeburns and Fujis,…
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Food Sowing the Seeds of Justice
Golf-ball sized, purple tomatoes hang heavy on the vine, ripe and ready for the picking. “You know tomatoes are ready when they easily pop right off at the stem,” announces Marybeth Lybrand, the Master Gardener at the Peninsula Jewish Community Center’s Gan Tzedek, or Justice Garden. “If you have to really tug to on the…
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Life Finding Potential in an Anti-Climactic New Year
Last year this time I sat on the brink of something incredible. Sitting in shul at the beginning of a new year, I was facing marriage, college graduation and the start of a new job. Nothing in life is certain, but the upcoming year still held considerable promise, more so than any other in my…
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