Foie gras—the controversial and expensive delicacy described by the renowned food encyclopedia Larousse Gastronomique as “one of the jewels in the crown of French gastronomy”—is made from the liver of a specially fattened duck or goose ...
Jews and coffee share an invigorating history. ...
Joan Nathan, the queen of Jewish American and Israeli cookbooks, takes to the old continent in her new book, Quiches, Kugels
...Stuffed Cabbage Filling: 2 beaten eggs 1 pound ground beef ½ cup cooked rice ½ teaspoon garlic powder 1 tablespoon
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What you call it usually depends on where your grandmother came from. ...
Venice, Harlem and Beyond There are few words that so acutely symbolize discrimination as “ghetto.” It was coined in
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Nobody Knows the Tsuris I’ve Seen… “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen,” laments an African-American spiritual. In Yiddish, this feeling
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by Eileen Lavine When I was growing up on the Upper West Side in the 1930s, Broadway was lined with
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Muscular. Courageous. Bronzed. The stereotype of the sun-kissed sabra is Ari ben Canaan, as played by actor Paul Newman in the 1960 movie Exodus. The word sabra stems from the name of the prickly pear cactus—tzabar in Hebrew and sabr in Arabic—whose thick thorny skin covers a sweet and succulent ...
By Eileen Lavine Muscular. Courageous. Bronzed. The stereotype of the sun-kissed sabra is Ari ben Canaan, as played by actor
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