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It’s becoming clearer by the day that Marjorie Taylor Greene learned nothing from her obligatory visit to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in D.C., made after she likened the Holocaust to mask mandates – but she may have picked up a soup recipe there. In an interview Tuesday night, Greene was heard comparing Nazis and Nancy…
I miss Gorky’s. If you hung out in pre-gentrification downtown L.A., circa 1980, you’ll know what I mean. Gorky’s was a warehouse-sized cafe, open 24/7, a glorious Socialist workers commissary crossed with a starving artist cafe. You went there hungover at 11 a.m. for bottomless coffee and a slice of poppy seed cake, or at…
There was a sign posted at the Los Angeles branch of D.C. Kitchen, a non-profit that employed at-risk adults to turn donated food into nutritious meals. It read: “People and food should not be wasted.” Words to live by, right? Celery is one of those vegetables we tend to waste, or at least overlook. But…
On this chilly and gray Marathon Sunday I sat warm and cozy in front of my TV, awed by the incredible athleticism of the world’s top runners — and in particular, of the women’s 1st-place finisher, the 36-year-old American Shalane Flanagan. Because food is always on my mind, I started thinking about what would make…
Just when we were starting to fantasize about fresh spring menus, we learned that we were being hit with a whopper of a blizzard. This required a change of mindset — and menu. Clearly, some warming, cozy soups and stews were in order, so we collected a few of our favorites here. Liza Schoenfein is…
January is National Soup Month. Who knew? I always wonder where these delicious designations come from. (In this case, Campbell’s, perhaps?) Of course the timing couldn’t be better — it’s soup weather for sure. So I searched our archives for the many wonderful, hearty, homey, delicious soup recipes we have on the Forward’s food channel,…
