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Alix Wall

Alix Wallis a freelance writer in Oakland, Calif. where she specializes in Jews, love and food.

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Gourmet Gift Guide — Top 10 Cookbooks Of 2017

Compiling a list of the best Jewish cookbooks of any given year can be a difficult task. While some books wear their Judaism right on their spines — by having the word “Jewish” in the title, for example, or by being specifically about Jewish food — others are less obvious. Having a Jewish author doesn’t…

By Alix Wall Dec 6, 2017 | < 1 min read
Food
Celiac Scientist Opens Gluten-Free Bakery

While a new Israeli-owned bakery in San Francisco has customers who keep kosher jumping for joy at its offerings, another recently opened Israeli-owned bakery is making a different subset of those with restricted diets quite happy. Its name is Glütless, and it serves the gluten-free. A long overdue diagnosis of celiac disease propelled Golan Yona…

By Alix Wall Feb 28, 2017 | 3 min read
Food
Grateful Bread — New Israeli-Kosher Bakery Gets Warm Welcome In San Francisco

On December 25, 2016, the first day of Hanukkah, Maureen Krantz and her family made a special trip into the city from their home in Berkeley just to try the Israeli-style sufganiyot at Frena, San Francisco’s highly anticipated new kosher bakery. “We had been hearing about it for weeks,” said Krantz, who is director of…

By Alix Wall Feb 27, 2017 | 6 min read
Food
Ottolenghi Withdrawal? This New Cookbook Offers a Quick Fix

Given the rave review I gave “Honey & Co.” in 2015, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the new baking book by the same authors: “Golden: Sweet & Savory Baked Delights from the Ovens of London’s Honey & Co.” (Little, Brown). For the uninitiated, Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich are an Israeli couple…

By Alix Wall Jan 30, 2017 | 2 min read
Food
How to Cook Like the Chef at a Top Kosher Steakhouse

This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a new cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking her guests what they think of the results. She recently cooked her way through “Le Marais: A Rare Steakhouse…Well Done” by Mark Hennessey and Jose Meirelles (Gefen Publishing House)….

By Alix Wall Jan 5, 2017 | 5 min read
Food
11 Cookbooks We Loved This Year

For the past five years running, the Forward’s annual list of best Jewish cookbooks has included something by Yotam Ottolenghi — from the U.S. release of “Plenty” in 2011 to last year’s “NOPI,” with “Jerusalem: A Cookbook” and others in between. Not this year. While we eagerly await Ottolenghi’s next work, a number of excellent…

By Alix Wall Dec 22, 2016 | 4 min read
Recipes
Kosher Cookbooks Have Come a Long Way, Baby

This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a new cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking her guests what they think of the results. She recently cooked her way through “Our Table: Time-Tested Recipes, Memorable Meals” by Renee Muller (Artscroll). It goes without saying that…

By Alix Wall Dec 10, 2016 | 5 min read
Recipes
How to Cook Weed-Laced Jewish Classics at Home

If the idea of lacing traditional Jewish foods — gefilte fish, challah, matzo balls, latkes and kugel — with marijuana makes you wince, then skip right over this. But if reading about what certainly must be the first cookbook to feature such dishes piques your interest, read on. All of these Jewish classics and more…

By Alix Wall Nov 25, 2016 | 4 min read

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