Recipe: Jennifer Abadi’s Syrian Meatballs with Sour Cherries
In the first edition of our new Friday recipe feature, cookbook author Jennifer Abadi brings us kibbeh m'Gerraz, or Syrian meatballs with sour cherries, a...
Recipe: Café Hafuch
Adapted from squidoo.com
Serves: 1
Prep Time: 3 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Café Hafuch or “upside-down” coffee is Israel’s answer to cappuccino. Variations include adding an extra shot...
Recipe: (Kosher-Style) Salmon Cakes
Adapted from Ina Garten
Ingredients
1/2 pound fresh salmon
Olive oil
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
4 tablespoons margarine
3/4 cup small-diced red onion (1 small onion)
1 1/2 cups...
Talk of the Table | Jewish Fizz: Seltzer, Egg Creams & Cel-Ray
The old joke goes like this: An elderly Jewish man falls on a New York street on a hot summer day; a doctor rushes through...
Shavuot Blintzes: Take Your Lactaid, Folks
Shavuot, the holiday that marks the receiving of the Torah and the annual cheesecake overload, begins on the evening of Tuesday, May 14. The holiday...
From Iraq With Love
by Sala Levin
Located at the geographic crossroads of Asia, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Israel is a kettle of culinary confluence. Perhaps the...
Maxwell House Hagaddah: Good to the Last Page
In 1923, when Maxwell House Coffee signed on with the Joseph Jacobs Advertising agency in New York, it was already a legend. Theodore Roosevelt supposedly...
The Sweet Story of Charoset
Charoset, that aromatic ensemble of fruits, nuts, spices and wine, may be the tastiest traditional food on the Seder plate, but why it is there...
Passover in Bejing: Does Sichuan Food Count As Bitter Herbs?
As Passover approaches, we all recall that we are strangers in a strange land. And boy, are we. As expats living in Beijing for the...
A Vegan Seder?
This year will be the third year my Jewish vegan friends and I celebrate “veder,” our version of a vegan Passover seder. All of the...
The Mostly Sweet Tale of Jews and Chocolate
Convinced he would encounter Jewish traders on his 1492 journey, Christopher Columbus brought along a Jew as a Hebrew interpreter. Although he met no Jews...
Lox: An American Love Story
by Eileen Lavine
When I was growing up on the Upper West Side in the 1930s, Broadway was lined with “appetizing” stores, that—unlike delicatessens, which sold...