Naomi Major
By Naomi Major
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Recipes The Seder Plate in a Glass
This Passover-themed take on a vodka martini incorporates fresh horseradish and parsley. Photograph by Liza Schoenfein At one Passover Seder I attended, all the guests brought dishes to contribute to the meal. As each person entered the apartment, the words “Do you have a bowl for this?” were uttered. Since that day, I have thought…
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Recipes The Perfect Purim Cocktail, Named for Esther
Since she can’t rename the holiday itself, our columnist comes up with a cocktail to honor her Purim heroine. Presenting… The Esther. Photograph by Liza Schoenfein. By now we’ve clearly established that when a Jewish holiday comes along, I will not know a thing about it. What I appreciate about my lack of formal religious…
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Recipes Tu B’Shvat Cocktail: The Arbor and the Ale
To celebrate Tu B’Shvat, a fig-scented cocktail. Photograph by Jon Wunder. Writing for the Forward, I’ve learned so much. My education continued this week when I was asked to create a cocktail recipe to celebrate the upcoming holiday of Tu B’Shvat. I am delighted to write about Tu B’Shvat, mainly because up until several days…
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Recipes New Year’s Pomegranate Fizz
The author’s idea of New Year’s Eve bliss: an evening of Scrabble and Pomegranate Fizzes. Photograph by Jon Wunder. For years I felt an enormous amount of pressure on New Year’s Eve to go out and have The Best Time Ever — and of course I never did. Now, thank goodness, I just don’t care….
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Food 8 Nights of Food Gifts: He’Brew Gift Pack
Photograph by Jon Wunder Gift No. 3 The holiday season is upon us, which for many means a time of social gatherings, family, friends and traditions both religious and secular. This time of year brings me back to my youth, when I believed December was the time the Jews celebrated Hanukkah as well as Passover…
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Food Getting to Know the Jewish Whisky Company
Photographs courtesy of the Jewish Whisky Company. I’m not a big whisky drinker. I’m especially not a whisky drinker at 11:30 in the morning on a workday. But that changed when I had the pleasure of sitting down with Joshua Hatton and Jason Johnstone-Yellin, two of the three founders of the Jewish Whisky Company. (The…
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Food The Making of ‘The Chutzpah!’ Cocktail
Naomi and Jon’s mixology laboratory. Photograph by Jon Wunder Now that I’m writing for the Forward, my boyfriend, Jon, has been peppering me with questions about Judaism and the paper. It’s lovely to have such a supportive boyfriend, but it’s more than a little embarrassing to have to pull out my dog-eared copy of Blair…
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Recipes A Manischewitz Cocktail: Now That’s Chutzpah!
A tart, refreshing, sophisticated cocktail designed to use up the post-holiday concord wine. Photograph by Liza Schoenfein The Chutzpah! Yields 1 cocktail 2 ounce concord wine such as Manischewitz 1 ounce orange juice 1 oz freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 ounce vodka 2-3 ounces dry sparkling wine such as prosecco or cava Slice of lemon,…
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