New York City’s Department of Transportation does not want you leaving locks on the Brooklyn Bridge. But eating a big bagel with lox and cream cheese? That is strongly encouraged. A new sign that popped up on the heavily trafficked bridge in October, complete with a bagel image, reads “NO LOCKS YES LOX.” As explained…
My 450-pound dad had been in every diet known to man — Akins, Weight Watcher’s, The Cabbage Soup Diet, The Tapeworm Diet. When nothing worked his bosses at McCann Erickson ad agency sent him on a six-month paid medical leave to the “Fat Farm” at Duke University, where he would be expected to lose a…
Roasted wild salmon over lentils. Photograph by Liza Schoenfein. I’m always aware that the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s is a high-calorie danger zone, so I tend to be fairly mindful. I just realized that I’m usually less conscious — and therefore less careful — between Purim and Passover. But here we are, sandwiched…
Spice Up Your Valentine’s* is a video from the* Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. Valentine’s Day comes with high expectations. Oh, the pressure to create romance. Add to that an expensive dinner in a restaurant overburdened by so many romance-seeking customers, and the evening often ends in disappointment. I remember one Valentine’s Day dinner, at…
A restaurant-quality recipe reworked for the home cook from “Secret Restaurant Recipes”. Makes 4 servings Parve 3-4 tablespoons olive oil, divided 2 red onions, thinly sliced 1 pound mushrooms, quartered 1 pound salmon, skin removed, cut into 1-in wide strips 1 pound tuna, cut into 1-in wide strips Kosher salt, to taste Pinch coarse black…
Lox Me Tender from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. Anne Rothstein stared through the counter glass, transfixed, as the knife slid through the fleshy pink salmon. “Amazing,” Rothstein said to herself. “You are amazing.” The subject of Rothstein’s praise, Len Berk, kept his eyes on the knife as it slid through the fish. Berk, 84,…
I was in New York last week so I know firsthand what sort of spring the east coast has had. I was more than happy to shed my winter wardrobe and return to the balmy warmth of Israel, where spring has fully sprung. Since the growing seasons here tend to be a bit ahead of…
For many consumers, even those comfortable purchasing and consuming GM products, there is something “different” about creating transgenic animals for human consumption. When people are confronted with the idea of genetically modified animals many think of Dolly, the famous sheep who was the first successful clone of a living animal. One of the first arguments…
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