Molly Yeh
By Molly Yeh
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Recipes A Pastrami Sandwich, in Stuffing Form
As cookbook author Melissa Clark says, “Thanksgiving is just one big excuse to eat lots of stuffing.” For me, stuffing is simply a better way to experience the practice of dunking a piece of bread into a bowl of chicken soup. You get more doughy bready goodness, less of a mess, and in my experience,…
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Food Cooking in Season: Pumpkin Macaroons
True, it’s not really the official time of year for macaroons. But as the world struggled to find something that doesn’t work with pumpkin (like Pumpkin Pop-Tarts, [Pumpkin Eggos]( https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=440397522668310&set=a.241228542585210.54394.161641000543965&type=1&theater, and pumpkin bagels), I had to know if the stray bag of coconut sitting in my cabinet would compliment it. So I dug up my…
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Food Buon Appetito: Biting Into Jewish Italian Cuisine
For many, the term “Jewish food” means one of two things: bubby’s matzo balls and the like, or, simply something that’s indefinable. The latter might be because Jews lack one specific country to point to for a cuisine, making Jewish food a mix of a number of different influences. And as Jewish cookbook author June…
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Food Eating Out: Rosh Hashanah Dinner
Whether the thought of cooking another kugel drives you insane or you’re just too far away to go home for the holidays, these restaurants have your back in the tastiest of ways. While some chefs have opted to go the more traditional route by doing their best to recreate one of grandma’s meals, others use…
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Food Searching for a Perfect Bagel Across the Pond
My last day in London, after a gloriously fattening week of Eccles cakes and Bakewell tarts, was a Sunday. Because it was a Sunday, I naturally required a bagel, per tradition. Having left for my summer European excursion as an Upper West Sider, I’ll admit that my initial reaction to nearly all of the bagels…
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Food Kosher Sweep: Trader Joe’s Chocolate Chips
For insight into last week’s happenings at Trader Joe’s grocery stores nationwide, referencing the vintage TV sensation “Supermarket Sweep” might not be a far stretch. The contestants were kosher customers, the prize, semi-sweet chocolate chips. The last of the pareve ones, that is. The chocolate chips, which have been regarded for years in kosher households…
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Food Jewish Food: A Million Ways To Agree To Disagree
If there is one teaching that I remember most from my summer camp Shabbats, it’s that part of being a Jew is challenging your beliefs about God: evaluating and re-evaluating your relationship with God, discussing, and possibly questioning a supreme being’s existence. Whether or not you agree with this idea, it appears that a similar…
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Food Best Jewish Sandwich — Readers’ Choice
In last week’s food section, we gave you 10 amazing Jewish sandwiches from across the country, which in true “top list” fashion sparked some debate over which sandwiches were really the best and which were missing from the list. Luckily, a tidy little poll let readers kvetch constructively by voting for their favorite (with a…
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