Whether you are taking a picnic to the beach, a local park or the Hollywood Bowl, desserts made from fresh fruits — peaches, apricots, plums, cherries and all kinds of berries — are a refreshing complement to your summer menu.
Praised on food blogs from East Hollywood to Long Beach for its hummus, kabobs, array of salads and the irresistible hot laffa, the Hummus Bar & Grill in Tarzana is also celebrated for its welcoming atmosphere. Luckily, when new owners converted the former Hummus Bar to the Bar & Grill in 2008, they expanded seating as well as the menu.
The closest I ever got to Middle East peace was a kitchen in Napa Valley.
Among the major gifts of the Jews to humanity — the idea of one God, the Bible and Ten Commandments, individual rights and human equality — there is also\nthis: finicky eating.
Even far into Malibu, the scene is very Hollywood: A handsomely scruffy young man in sunglasses confers with his acting coach over an array of sides spread across a slick wooden countertop, corners of the script’s pages dipping occasionally into tartar sauce and fry grease. The only other customer on this day is a middle-aged man in a white button-down, black slacks and a black kippah — a businessman in for a quick, kosher lunch before heading back to work.
For decades, Jewish families have called West Hills and its environs home, flocking to its quiet West Valley neighborhoods, which feature nearby synagogues, day schools and an active Jewish Community Center (JCC). But something was missing: a kosher market.
An Israeli chef at a New York restaurant created what is believed to be the world\’s largest falafel ball.
Antonia Szenthe likes to read Jewish cookbooks such as "Spicy Eszter" Bodrogi\’s "Spice and Soul: Jewish Cooking Here and Now" and adapt the recipes to her family\’s taste. She also enjoys experimenting to adapt pork-laden traditional Hungarian recipes to kosher style.
Recently my 3-year-old granddaughter played with a music box she had received from her parents at Chanukah.
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“What is Chanukah?” I asked her.
