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Rose Levy Beranbaum Is Back With a New ‘Bible’
Rose Levy Beranbaum. Photograph by Ben Fink. The first time I met the magnificent baker and cookbook author Rose Levy Beranbaum, she brought me a baggie of bread. It wasn’t long after 9/11, and Beranbaum was baking like mad, developing recipes for “The Bread Bible,” which would be published in the fall of 2003. I…
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Recipes Recipe: Honey Cake for a Sweet New Year
Photograph by Ben Fink My fellow writer, talented friend and poet from Montreal, Marcy Goldman, is the authority on Jewish baking in Canada. She has developed the first honey cake I have ever loved, in good part because it is moist, flavorful and not too sweet. Special Equipment: Two stacked baking sheets and one 9-…
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Bread and Bakers Rising Together
Baker on the Rise: Most employees graduate to jobs at other bakeries. Courtesy of Hot Bread Kitchen Staff. The week before Rosh Hashanah, inside a low-slung East Harlem building under elevated rail tracks, a crew of women will quietly mix, knead, shape and bake challahs in an immaculate kitchen. Their dough will yield thousands of…
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Recipe: Hot Bread Kitchen’s Sephardic Challah
Hot Bread Kitchen’s Sephardic Challah. Courtesy of Hot Bread Kitchen Staff. Active time: 25 minutes Total time: 3 hours 45 minutes, plus cooling Yields: 2 round loaves 3 tablespoons sesame seeds 1½ tablespoons caraway seeds 1½ tablespoons anise seeds 1 envelope active dry yeast 2 cups lukewarm water 5 cups bread flour 2½ tablespoons extra…
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Sweet Sally’s Features Traditional Jewish Baked Goods
Some of the traditions we learn as children carry with us through our entire lives. For me, that would definitely be my family’s love of baking, as well as the celebration of Jewish traditions. As the owner of Sweet Sally’s Bakeshop, I am able to honor both. As a child, my Jewish upbringing revolved around…
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Junior’s Bucks a Trend to Maintain a Tradition
This summer wasn’t kind to New York restaurant lovers. In June, Wylie Dufresne announced that he’d be closing the doors of his pioneering modernist restaurant WD50. Soon after, Danny Meyer said that Union Square Café would be leaving its original location when its lease expired at the end of the year. Finally, some good news….
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Russ and Daughters Heads Uptown
Michael Harlan Turkell As a kid growing up on New York’s Upper East Side, I had appetizing envy. My West Side friends had Zabar’s, Murray’s Sturgeon Shop, and Barney Greengrass. Downtown, of course, there was Russ & Daughters. Sure, there were a few Jewish delis like P.J. Bernstein’s, and eventually fancier shops like Sable’s, but…
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That Time I Cooked For Joan Rivers
Getty Images I’ve long felt a special kinship with Joan Rivers. Not because we were both Jewish, but because we shared a Jewish sense of humor — no matter how bad things could get, we always found the funny in it. The first time I almost met Joan was on a flight to San Francisco. I…
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Vietnamese Soup Gets Yiddishe Momme Twist
Pho-chicken soup with kreplach dumplings / Vered Guttman You could always tell the time of year by looking at my Polish grandmother Rachel’s chicken soup: If it was served with bubelach (egg pancakes) or home made lokshen (she used to fry dozens of thin omelets and slice them, very very slowly, to thin lokshen) you…
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Eggplant, Labneh and Pomegranate Dip
(Haaretz) — Dip with labneh (sour yogurt cheese) and pomegranate molasses. Yields 2 cups of dip INGREDIENTS 1 large eggplant 4 tablespoons olive oil plus more for drizzling juice of ½ lemon 1 garlic clove, minced Kosher salt to taste 1½ cups Labneh 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses Pita chips or veggies for serving. DIRECTIONS 1….
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Eggplant, My Beloved Eggplant
(Haaretz) — Growing up in Israel, it’s natural for me to love eggplants. So much, that I almost take it personally when I hear (all too often) my American friends saying it’s their least favorite vegetable. In my opinion, there are two common mistakes with dealing with eggplants that prevent people from revealing their true deliciousness….
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