Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food This Japanese American Jewish Cook Is Building A Lifestyle Brand For ‘Ethnically Blended’ Households
View this post on Instagram A post shared by KRISTIN ERIKO POSNER (@bynourishco) on Feb 21, 2019 at 2:41pm PST “Nourish Co is a lifestyle brand for ethnically blended and interfaith households,” the Japanese Jewish American Kristin Eriko Posner tells the Forward. “What we do is create nourishing rituals with them.” What that means is…
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Food How Martha Rosler’s Attack On ‘The Woman In The Kitchen’ Made Men Angry
The year is 1975. A woman named Martha Rosler stands in a kitchen surrounded by gadgets, picking up each of them and naming them alphabetically with precise, controlled, angry movements. It’s an indictment of a certain kind of cooking demonstration, performed by the likes of Julia Child, and an indictment of a certain kind of…
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Food How To Decode A Kosher Label
Within the estimated 1,300 kosher certification agencies in the world, there’s an ongoing fight for the trust of the Jewish consumer. Who is the strictest? Who will be the most rigorous in examining kitchen utensils? Who has the perfect balance between knowledge of ancient traditions and knowledge of modern machinery? Less than 2% of America’s…
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Food Kosher And Halal Meat Can No Longer Be Labeled Organic In The EU
The European Union’s highest court just ruled that halal and kosher meat cannot be labeled organic if the animal involved has not been stunned before death. The judge’s ruling states that products marked with the official EU organic label must have been farmed with the highest standards in farming welfare. Religious slaughter, which for kosher…
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Food The Orthodox World Gets Its Own Indie Meat Magazine
“The goal was always to create a magazine that would be gorgeous and stunning, whether it was kosher or not,” says Shifra Klein, sitting in her Long Island home slash workspace, where she and her husband Shlomo create “Fleishigs”, a kosher magazine dedicated to meat. Fleishigs magazine is glossy and well-shot, and it appears to…
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Food How To Make Your Dishes Pop On Instagram: A Food Stylist’s Secrets
Judy Haubert has been making food camera-ready since 2008, when she began assisting the head stylist at Saveur Magazine with his shoots. These days, she’s got her own roster of A-list clients, from the Meredith Corporation to The New York Times. “I love my job,” says Haubert. “It’s just food, you know? It’s not rocket…
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Food Our Favorite Food Instagrammers Tell Us Their Must-Have Kitchen Spices
Humans have been using spices as a flavor short-cut for centuries, and there’s a reason for that. Spices are an easy way to elevate any dish. With a sprinkle of sumac, you can give your dish a Middle Eastern jolt, a bay leaf can lend a boring bowl some woodsy depth, and a sprig of…
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Food A Historian’s Cafe In Montreal’s Jewish Museum Re-Defines What Jewish Food Means
90,780 Jews live in Montreal. That’s 2.4% of Montreal entire population, according to a 2011 household survey. As a result, Jewish food has played a significant role in Montreal’s food culture, with the Montreal versus New York bagel debate perpetually rearing its head and the smoked meats Jewish immigrants brought to Montreal becoming the stuff…
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