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The Best Jewish Cookbooks of 2015
Cookbooks make fantastic Hanukkah presents for the die-hard foodies, armchair chefs and aspiring gourmets in your life. To help you navigate the unusually crowded field of Jewish cookbooks that came out in 2015, we offer this roundup of our favorites. (For lack of a better organizational system, the list goes in chronological order of when…
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Brisket’s Mini Modern Side
As the author of “The Brisket Book: A Love Story With Recipes,” I was anointed “The Brisket Queen” on Twitter by Julia Moskin of The New York Times. A passionate brisket cook, eater and chronicler, and a keen observer of the brisket zeitgeist, I need no crystal ball to predict brisket’s future: Brisket is going…
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Recipes Brisket Tacos
Slows Bar B Q’s chef and pitmaster, Brian Perrone, recommends barbecued brisket over braised for this recipe, but says that “braised will work, too. I just wouldn’t go with a brisket braised in red wine.” Beer-braised brisket worked well when the Forward tested these tacos. We also decided to make a miniature version, perfect for…
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Recipes Deviled Eggs With Brisket and Pickles
This is a great trick when you have some leftover brisket. If you have a little sauce or pan juice from the brisket, add it to the meat; then warm in the microwave before you top the eggs. They will be even tastier. Related Brisket Sliders With Slaw Brisket Tacos Brisket Tots Fried Brisket Kreplach…
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Recipes Brisket Tots
One more reason why bar snacks are cool and brisket is hot. A recent New York Times rave says it all: At , chef Jesse Schenker’s “finger-beckoning…brisket tots have become such a category killer that he’s going through 200 pounds of brisket each week and has hired two people in the kitchen who do nothing…
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Recipes Fried Brisket Kreplach
Traditionally boiled and served in soup, kreplach can also be fried and eaten as finger food… say, your next Hanukkah party. My neighbor, Lois Baron, gave me a version of this recipe, which calls for roasting and braising a beef brisket. When I told her I intended to give it a shot using leftover pot…
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It’s Sufganiyot Season
Breads’ filled doughnuts are hitting the bakery’s shelves today. Of the many fun aspects of Hanukkah, our favorite may be that it’s practically a cultural obligation to eat the Israeli-style filled doughnuts called sufganiyot. In New York City, you can pick them up at starting Tuesday, December 1. Filled with strawberry jam, dulce de leche,…
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Mexican-Jewish Chef Wins Thanksgiving Chopped Challenge and All the Weekly Dish
Chef Dafna Mizrahi (above) won Chopped’s Thanksgiving Challenge. Mexican-Jewish chef Dafna Mizrahi has won top prize on The Food Network’s . The 23-year-old chef/owner of farm-to-table spot Monte’s Local Kitchen in upstate Amenia, New York, triumphed over three opponents on the show’s Thanksgiving episode. Mizrahi donated her $10,000 prize to a local horse-rescue organization. New…
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Recipes A Latke Alternative With an Italian Accent
Fried chickpea fritters known as panelle are simple, versatile and easy to make ahead. What could be better for a Hanukkah party? Italians know how to fry. During the week I spent on a food-writing retreat at the in the center of Sicily last summer, I ate a dizzying array of foods that had swum…
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Recipes All Fun, No Fuss Doughnuts
Out of all the hacks in life, the biscuit doughnut might be my favorite. You know, the one where the hardest part is withstanding that terrifying moment when you wonder if the store-bought tube of dough is going to explode in your hands? And the second hardest part is deciding if you want to call…
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Eating, Drinking + Thinking Together, and You’re Invited
We’ll all be there. What about you? Sandwiched between two deliciously food-focused holidays, Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, the Forward is throwing a food-centric celebration of its own. On Thursday, December 3, at a cool downtown venue called , we’re hosting an evening of food, drink, comedy and conversation that’s aptly being called Eat, Drink + Think….
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