Liza Schoenfein is a former food editor of the Forward and author of the blog Life, Death & Dinner. Follow her on Instagram @LifeDeathDinner.
Liza Schoenfein
By Liza Schoenfein
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Recipes How to Create Simple, Delicious ‘Bowls of Plenty’
This week my teenagers remarked that there was “nothing to eat” in our house, in spite of the fact that the refrigerator was filled with raw vegetables, cheeses, some uncooked lamb and sausages and a slew of condiments, and the cupboards were packed with what seems a somewhat unreasonable number of grains and dried legumes….
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Food 1,000 NYC Kids to Bake Challah for Homeless
More than 1,000 Jewish children from across New York City will gather at the Grand Hyatt on Super Bowl Sunday to make challah — one loaf to take home and one for a family in need. The 2nd annual Mega Challah Bake for Kids was organized by parents from across New York City, in partnership…
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Food How Trump Team Stole Inauguration Cake Design From Jewish Baker
While President Donald Trump promises to take the country in an entirely new direction, the cake he sliced with a sword at an inaugural ball Friday night told a different story. It was a copy of the cake Jewish pastry chef and Food Network star Duff Goldman made for Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013….
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Recipes 18 Jewish Cocktails to Help You Take in the Reality of President Trump
It’s the dawn of a new day, and I need a drink. Luckily, I’ve dug up a neat little collection of cocktail recipes — all created in what now seems like a different era — which offer fortification in various forms of rye, gin, vodka, Mahia, Drambuie, prosecco and Arak. Saturday, the marchers marched with…
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Food Lox Without the Line (or Check) at Russ & Daughters New Sabbath Brunch
Leave it to the 21st-century scions of a venerated 103-year-old smoked fish emporium to figure out how to serve a restaurant brunch on Saturday mornings to Sabbath-observant Jews — and anyone who can’t stand late-morning lines. Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper, the 4th-generation owners of Russ & Daughters, have done just that. At…
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Recipes 6 Sustaining Jewish Snacks to Make for a March
Here are some high-energy, easy-to-eat-en-route, sustaining snacks to make and share along the march route. So fill a thermos with hot soup, a baggie with spiced nuts or good granola, or a small sac of cookies packed with nutritious, delicious ingredients. For a more substantial meal to eat with one hand while holding a sign…
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Food Kosher in the Capital? Ivanka and Jared Face Limited Options
As they settle into their new Washington, D.C. digs, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner may be as unpleasantly surprised as I was to discover how very few kosher eateries exist in the nation’s Capital. Of course it’s likely that the Kushners will employ a private kosher chef at their new mansion in the Kalorama neighborhood….
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Food As More Jews Go Vegan, So Does Birthright
This summer, for the first time, American young adults will have the opportunity to take a Birthright trip that’s specifically vegan. Jewish Veg, a U.S. nonprofit that encourages Jews to transition toward plant-based diets, announced today that it is organizing the trip with Mayanot Israel, a leading organizer of Birthright Israel tours. Until I talked…
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