Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Recipes A Jew-ish Thanksgiving menu
Kasha, challah and bagels are all part of this traditionally non-traditional programming
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Food The Future Of Barbecue Involves Cholent — And Men Only
At the 12th annual Food Film Festival, Jewish food took center stage. In a room filled with people who paid top-dollar for a movie experience that ignited all their senses, along with brisket, arrosticini, and monkfish tail — cholent was on the menu. “What is this choo-lent?” asked George Motz, festival founder, to raucous audience…
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Food In This Vegan Cleanse, The Only Thing You Can Eat Is Soup
The package arrives, and it’s bigger than I expected. Ripping the inside of it open reveals 20 soups cradled in a bed of ice packs. They’re colorful, and the marketing declares it ‘Fresh, Wholesome, Plant-Based Goodness, Generously Crafted By A Mother-Daughter Duo.’ It’s appealing, I have to admit. It’s all part of the Soupergirl soup…
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Food Empowering Israeli Women To Monetize Their Cooking Skills
Jewish food is about a whole lot more than just bagels and lox. It’s Bukharian peraskhi, it’s Ethiopian injera, and it’s Moroccan stew. And on a recent chilly weekend in the Queens Bukharian Jewish Center, the non-profit Women Cook, along with Council Member Karen Koslowitz, tried to prove that to the world. The festival was…
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The Schmooze ‘Great British Bake Off’ Has Zero Jewish Friends
The Great British Bake Off is a great love of mine. From the mythology of the show (rumor has it Sue protects bakers from crying on camera by stepping in front of them and cursing) to the gentle pastel-y set that melts into the frontal cortex like a Xanax, GBBO is a soothing antidote to…
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Food BDS Pressured Celebrity Chefs To Boycott Israeli Food Festival. Chef Gabrielle Hamilton Withdrew.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has issued a petition signed by more than 70 food industry notables (including cookbook author Julia Turshen and the People’s Kitchen Collective) urging the chefs invited to Israel’s Round Tables Food Festival to reconsider their attendance. The open letter was addressed to chefs like Chef Isa Mazuchi of La…
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Food ‘Jew Hungry?’ Food Truck Vandalized In Austin
Scotty Grossbard got the phone call 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, on his first vacation since his Jewish deli-themed food truck Jew Hungry? opened eight months ago. “I knew something was wrong,” he said. The bar manager of the 04 Lounge, which Jew Hungry? parks in front of, told him the food truck had been broken…
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Food Soupergirl Didn’t Win Shark Tank, But She’s Okay
“Our world is in trouble and I want to be part of the solution,” says Sara Polon, the co-founder of Soupergirl, a company that specializes in fresh, eco-friendly soups. “This company is part of that. And I can’t compromise on that.” In October, the founders of Soupergirl appeared on reality show Shark Tank to pitch…
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