fbpx
Category

Recipes

Is the Newsweek rabbis list good for the Jews?

One night some years ago, two powerful Jewish men in media, one from New York and one from Los Angeles, were walking together through the streets of Jerusalem when they hatched a little idea.

Recipes: The art of Passover baking

Passover, the Festival of Freedom — also known as the Festival of Unleavened Bread — is celebrated for eight days. Over the centuries, Jewish cooks have produced a rich array of foods for the Passover holiday, and desserts are an especially important course of the meal.

Preparing for spring and the festival of indigestion

Uri Laio, proprietor of Brassica and Brine, which calls itself a micro-craft food business, stands at the front of a small crowd gathered to learn from this master artisan how to make kvass, or fermented beet juice.

Kosher caterer and restaurateur Alain Cohen brings family tradition to his menus, Passover seder

It’s late afternoon and the staff at Got Kosher? Café is under the impression that the kitchen isn’t yet able to prepare brik until dinner service begins. “So, you want brik?” owner Alain Cohen asks. Dressed in all black, with a professorial air and solid build, Cohen’s question implies that brik will be in my future, despite the lunch shift’s initial claim. When Cohen sits down at the front corner table in his restaurant, a half-moon shaped, flash-fried brik arrives, with a diminutive, custom-sized portion for himself.

More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.