Elisheva Margulies
By Elisheva Margulies
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Recipes Staying Gluten-Free During the Chagim
While those of us on a gluten-free diet may have our daily eating habits under control, the chagim (Jewish Holidays) present a whole new array of challenges. Unless you’re preparing a holiday feast in your own home where everything is under control and to your own standards, it’s often difficult to eat out — even…
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Food CSA Unboxed: Beets
Beets — most people either love them or hate them. It’s amusing listening to other CSA members pick up beets with the consistent refrains of yippee or oh-no. They really are a polarizing vegetable. This is unfortunate, in my opinion, given their availability for much of the growing season and their ability to keep well…
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Food Creamy Panna Cotta for Shavuot
Shavuot is just around the corner, meaning, it’s time to break out the dairy. With recipes for cheesecake and cream cheese rugelach on every corner, I like to add an Italian twist to my holiday table with panna cotta, a silken mold that translates to cooked cream (check back for more Italian recipes this afternoon)….
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Food Pickled Ramps: Celebrating and Preserving the Flavors of Spring
What in years past could be featured at a Passover Seder as the first vegetables of the spring — curly fiddlehead ferns and baby leek-like ramps — have yet to sprout in the Midwest this year. According to my local farmers market in St. Louis, everything’s coming up a bit late this year, including ramps….
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Food Sustainable Wedding Part 3: Chocolate Truffles to Greet Our Guests
At seemingly every event from non-profit gala to wedding I’ve attended in the past few years, I’ve walked away with chocolate. It’s such a great way to start or end the evening with — the gift of a bite or bar of chocolate. In the midst of planning our sustainable Jewish wedding, which is now…
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Food Delicious and Sustainable Jewish Wedding Favors
My last JCarrot, post on balancing religious and personal food values at my wedding reception, really struck a nerve both positive and negative with readers. I received loads of comments about the food and wine at the wedding. There were also comments regarding sustainable wedding décor. We are already well underway with planning the décor,…
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Food What Belongs on the Plate at a Sustainable Jewish Wedding?
Eleven months into planning our April wedding, and my fiancé and I feel like we should write a book — the ultimate guide to the sustainable Jewish wedding. We dove into the world of wedding planning together, and decided to plan a wedding that would truly reflect us — with our desire to live sustainably…
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Food Terra Madre 2010 Was a Foodie’s Dream, But Where Were the Jews?
Have you ever been in a room filled with 5,000 farmers, activists, chefs and educators from over 150 countries? Until two weeks ago, I could never have imagined such an occurrence. However, having just returned from Terra Madre, the bi-annual international gathering of Slow Food International — a 10,000-member organization founded to counteract the rise…
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