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This matzah is kept under lock and key. So are the people who will eat it.

Jonah Lowenfeld April 13, 2011

A few weeks before Passover, there was a moment when Shirley Friedman looked worried that there might not be enough food for everybody. Friedman, who calls herself “a full-time grandmother,” is expecting to feed three dozen people over the first two nights of Passover at her table at home — but on that Thursday morning, she wasn’t worrying about a problem that could be solved by another trip to the supermarket.

Conservatives’ challenge to Orthodoxy’s near monopoly on kosher gets more serious

Jewish Journal April 11, 2011

The Conservative movement’s ethical kosher initiative may not have been intended as a wedge into the Orthodox monopoly over kosher supervision. But the planned rollout this summer of the Conservative-backed seal of ethical kosher production, the Magen Tzedek, coincides with an increase in the number of Conservative rabbis acting as kosher supervisors.

Golan Heights Winery takes Italian first prize

Jewish Journal April 8, 2011

For the first time, the grand prize at Italy\’s leading international wine competition has been awarded to an Israeli winery. The Golan Heights Winery, founded in 1983 in Katzrin, beat out 3,720 wines from from more than 1,000 producers in 30 countries to take home the so-called \”Wine World Cup\” — the Gran Vinitaly Special Award granted ahead of Italy\’s annual Vinitaly wine trade fair in Verona, one of Europe\’s top wine events, which opens Friday.

Where’s the kosher beef? It could be South Dakota

Jewish Journal April 7, 2011

A large kosher slaughterhouse and processing plant is being planned for South Dakota. A spokesman for First American Farms told the Sioux City Journal that the company was eyeing a 300- to 400-acre location in rural Union County for a kosher beef facility.

Taking a modern approach to Passover desserts

Jewish Journal April 6, 2011

At Passover, because tradition rules, I’m willing to bet that, at most seder tables, undistinguished sponge and honey cake, coconut macaroons and probably some dried fruits cooked into a compote are trotted out at meal’s end, met with no discernable oohs and aahs of rapture from those at the table. Why not bend tradition a bit in the name of making the last course as delectable as the dishes that precede it? Adhering to the albeit fluid rules that proscribe chemical leavening, and flour- and corn-based products, there’s still a whole world of modern and delicious desserts that can grace the Passover table.

More cluck for your passover buck

Judy Zeidler April 6, 2011

I have always enjoyed researching and developing new dishes to serve during Passover, but have you ever heard of Mock Gefilte Fish? Because everyone loves chicken, I am constantly looking for new and different chicken dishes to prepare, and I find that each recipe has a story all its own.

Michal Ansky celebrates spring’s bounty on Passover

Rob Eshman April 6, 2011

Here’s the first thing you notice about Michal Ansky: She’s beautiful. Tall, with long black hair and a strong, lean Israeli build. In the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Marina del Rey, where we meet, people do double takes. She’s not quite famous here yet, though Fox TV selected Ansky from among all the cooking experts in the world to be one of three judges on its hit program, “MasterChef.” Padma Lakshmi, watch your back.

First-ever translation of Yiddish cookbook yields Old World treasures, New World advice

Jewish Journal April 6, 2011

When a rare volume of a 1914 cookbook written in Yiddish for American Jewish housewives came into the hands of Bracha Weingrod, the once popular but forgotten book began its long journey from dusty oblivion to celebrated translation. The thick, worn copy of “Dos Familien Kokh-Bookh,” now newly translated by Weingrod as “The Yiddish Family Cookbook,” is the only Yiddish cookbook on the market.

New Jersey man wins $25,000 in Manschewitz cooking contest

Jewish Journal April 1, 2011

Stuart Davis of Cherry Hill, N.J. won the $25,000 grand prize in this year’s Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off. The annual kosher cooking contest, which took place Thursday, is sponsored by Manischewitz, the nation’s largest maker of processed kosher food products, including the eponymous matzah.

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