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Sending Passover Kisses
If you are counting the days to Passover, perhaps you have also started hunting for nostalgia-laced Barton’s Almond Kisses. You may look forward to chewing them slowly to squeeze out the sugary, chocolate nuttiness. Save the iconic tin to store your leftover macaroons and matzo brickle. Think back, if you are of a certain age,…
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Recipes Lamb Stew With Apricots and Mint Over White Beans — From a Spanish Dream
In Barcelona with my family a few years ago at Passover, I was all set to make a version of Claudia Roden’s beef tagine with sweet potatoes in the tiny kitchen of our rental apartment. I’d found the recipe in her before I left. Then a funny, slightly mystical-feeling thing happened. I’m not really a…
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Recipes A New Orleans Seder, Israeli Style
During Passover week, Israeli-born chef Alon Shaya is rolling out a Seder menu at his acclaimed New Orleans eatery, Shaya, that riffs on his Jewish roots, while pulling in local Louisiana flavors and Italian elements inspired by his other restaurant, Domenica. “I wanted to follow the traditional flow of a Passover Seder,” Shaya said, “but…
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Recipes Alon Shaya’s Charoset
My grandmother would make the best Sephardic-style charoset. This is based off hers, with an Italian twist. I love what the flavor of the Moscato wine and hazelnuts adds to the dates and figs. I also like to make this year-round and eat it with everything. Try it with grilled ciabatta and fresh ricotta cheese….
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Gourmet Kosher-for-Passover Getaways
The Kosherica program at Atlantis Paradise Island is one of the many Passover getaways attracting families this year. As Jews throughout the world prepare to commemorate the exodus of the slaves from Egypt, I am dreaming of a redemption of a different kind. After all, the boxes of Passover dishes need to be hauled up…
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Get Your Mimouna Madness On With Einat Admony
For Sephardic Jews, the last day of Passover brings , which celebrates the return of chametz after eight days of unleavened everything. And chef Einat Admony’s going to blow it out big this year at NYC nightspot Katra, with her first Mimouna party. It’ll feature small plates from her fast-casual Taim restaurant; Moroccan pastries; henna…
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Mile End’s Unpredictable Seder — and All the Dish
The crew at is hosting a predictably unpredictable Seder with a Middle Eastern flavor. Mile End executive chef Tony Nassif will whip up trad-with-a-twist plates like charred eggplant babaghanoush, sweet-and-spicy roasted peppers, duck chopped liver with shallots and gribenes and confit lamb shank. Tickets are $130 — wine and a copy of “The Unorthodox Haggadah”…
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Recipes Matzo Balls With Mushrooms and Jalapeños in Broth
For five seasons, Pati Jinich has cooked her heart out on Pati’s Mexican Table, a PBS series in which this Mexican-Jewish chef, cooking teacher, food writer and mom devotes each episode to the evolution of Mexican food and Mexico’s rich history and culture. This month, with the release of her newest book, “Mexican Today: New…
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Recipes 10 Shades of Matzo Brei
Here, the basic recipe — plus 10 terrifically tasty variations. Growing up, I missed out on matzo brei. The more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts dish of crumbled matzo mixed with beaten egg and pan fried in copious amounts of butter (or oil, though it is vastly inferior this way) is a true Passover breakfast icon — just not in…
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Recipes A Mediterranean Seder Meal
This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a new cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking her guests what they think of the results. She recently cooked her way through “” by Joyce Goldstein (U.C. Press). Related Asparagus Soup From the Veneto Tunisian Fish Ball…
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Recipes Asparagus Soup From the Veneto
One reason this Passover soup is so delicious is because there are no onions to mask the clean asparagus flavor. Use margarine or olive oil for a meat-based meal. Related Tunisian Fish Ball Tagine Turkish Lamb With Green Garlic New Cookbook Is Chef’s Love Letter to Mediterranean Diet Serves 6 4 ½ to 5 cups…
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