Leah Koenig
By Leah Koenig
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Food Beyond the Bagel — Feeding a Cold
I am a miserable sick person. A few coughs and sneezes I can handle without much of a problem; but when a bad virus hits — one of the sore throat, coughing, faucet nose, headache, sneeze-y and achy bones variety, like the one I just finished plodding my way through — I am pretty much…
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Food Breakfast at Jack’s Wife Freda With Noah Arenstein
A rosewater waffle topped with thick yogurt, berries and honey syrup, and poached eggs served over slices of grilled tomato and salty haloumi at Jack’s Wife Freda. Within a few minutes of opening on a recent weekday morning, the tables at , an eclectic bistro in New York City, were nearly filled. Even for Soho,…
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Recipes Post-Hanukkah Detox Breakfast
A date and almond-butter smoothie (recipe below) is the perfect way to ease out of eight days of indulgence. Last night, as our fully lit menorah glowed majestically in the window, I breathed a sigh of relief. The candles’ dwindling light meant that Hanukkah was nearing its end. To be clear, I love Hanukkah and…
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Food Facing a Changed World, on a Full Stomach
Writer Leah Koenig (left) as a preschooler, with her father, Richard Koenig. Something strange happened the day after my father died. I woke up the next morning hungry for breakfast. Everything else has shifted. The shape of my family tree had changed. Nearly everyone I loved was sad all at once. I realized that I…
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Food Brunch for 60 in Los Angeles
French toast with za’atar butter and seared tomatoes from “Modern Jewish Cooking.” Images by . A few Sundays ago, I cooked brunch in front of 60 strangers — on stage. I was at the Skirball Cultural Center, the gorgeous Jewish cultural mega-ship based in Los Angeles, doing an event in support of my new book,…
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Recipes Fried Green Olives
The perfect accompaniment to a glass of sparkling wine, fried olives are also a great addition to an Israeli-style breakfast. Sometimes the best dishes on a restaurant’s menu are the simplest ones. I love , the modern-Israeli eatery in New York run by chef Einat Admony. Admony’s cooking is inspiring across the board, from her…
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Food The Bialy Stages a Major Comeback
Growing up in the Midwest in the 1980s and 1990s, I never knew from a bialy. Bagels we had aplenty — though mostly oversized and of the blasphemously flavored variety (think blueberry and, my childhood favorite, chocolate chip). But shortly after moving to New York in my early 20s, I met the beautiful bialy —…
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Food How Israel Made Me Fall in Love With Turkish Coffee
Traveling to Israel, like visiting Rome or Paris, tends to result in euphoric, sometimes life-altering food experiences. For me, it was all about the Turkish coffee. I was 24 and somewhere in the Negev desert, staffing a along with Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian alumni of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. In the already punishing…
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