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Sunday Brunch: D.I.Y. Bagels, Schmear and Lox
I’ve spent hours — possibly even days — worth of my life debating the perfect bagel and where to find it. Questions like these always arise: Who does it better, Brooklyn or Manhattan? Are seeds essential? Are Montreal bagels worthy of our attention? It seems that the quibbles, questions and criteria surrounding what makes a…
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Ruth Bourdain Comes Out of the Pantry
The wondering and speculation are over. We finally know who the real person is behind Ruth Bourdain, the Twitter personality that is a bizarre mashup of former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl and foul-mouthed TV food show host Anthony Bourdain (visually, we’re talking Reichl’s dark long hair with bangs plopped on top of Bourdain’s mug). All…
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An Interfaith Food Collaborative
This story originally appeared on J. Weekly. Steve Schwartz’s mother did most of the cooking in his childhood home in suburban San Diego, but when his father, Miki, took to the stove, he had one specialty: mushroom omelets. “That’s the only thing he ever cooked, and from that, I think I got the idea that…
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Meet the Extreme Kosher Couponers
Anita Batt’s weekly grocery shopping goes something like this: First, she checks several online coupon blogs, which offer guidance about the best sales and coupon combinations in stores such as CVS, Kroger and Target. Next, Batt prints the several dozen coupons she will use and places them in her organizer sorted by store. Then she…
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Food for All (Thirteen of Our) Moods
Before I went to college, I had a lot of ideas about what it would be like. I would make the closest friends of my life with a group of diverse yet like-minded people, and we would live together, cozy and joyful, while learning about ourselves and the subjects that interested us the most. At…
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Six Soups To Cool Down With This Week
If you’ve looked at a thermometer lately, watched weather on the ones or stepped outside you’ve probably noticed that much of the country is in a heat wave. Never one to ditch my favorite hobby just because it’s getting a little hot in the kitchen, I’ve taken to preparing cold soups and so have many…
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Can Football Make Hummus Macho?
Some sports and food groups in the United States are easily associated with one another. Baseball and hot dogs clearly go together, for example. That’s easy. But what about football? Tailgating parties, where people hold picnics out of the back of the car before a big game, may be an integral part of the football…
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Recipes What’s for (Shabbat) Dinner? Spanish Tapas Platters
Last March I visited a good friend studying in Spain. Being early spring, I packed scarves, boots, and jeans for our trip to Valencia. My friend and I arrived at the hostel in a full sweat, annoyed at just how inaccurate the weatherman had been. Tired and hot, I checked out the forlorn hostel kitchen….
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Could Hidden Chemicals Be the Cause of Your Health Concern?
Take a look in the mirror. Consider that the reflection shining back represents a culmination of the dietary choices you have made over time. Are you satisfied with what’s there? Is your skin glowing from the freshest bounty of the season? Or is it mottled with dry skin or speckled with acne from the processed…
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Where To Get a Jewish Bite in Montreal
Heading north to Montreal this summer? If you’re not, you should be. Aside from being the three months out of the year when the city doesn’t look like a snow globe, summertime is festival time in Montreal. From June until mid-September, the newly laid-out Place des Festivals is aglow with lights, sounds, crowds, music and…
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Celebrating Shabbat Gluten Free and Vegetarian
For most of my life, my family’s standard Friday night Shabbat meal has been somewhat traditional with a modern flair; homemade challah, chicken soup with matzo balls, roasted chicken, broccoli, kugel, salad, and scrumptious desserts. Without sounding too forward, I am a pretty good cook and always like to try new recipes. Four years ago,…
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