A chance encounter last summer in the produce section of the vegetarian co-op Rainbow Grocery proved to be the catalyst for a rich culinary mentorship blossoming at 12 Tribes, a Bay Area kosher catering operation headed up by the legendary ‘Rabbi Chef’ Becky Joseph. Jordon Daugherty, a transplant from the great Midwest, and at 24,…
Britain’s next food TV star may just be a kosher housewife. [The Jewish Chronicle] With the Jewish farm movement growing, Leah Koenig takes a look at the history of Jewish farming in America. [Tablet] The tale of a family’s babka recipe. [Gilt Taste] Last butcher standing: “Yuval Atias is the last of the Bay Area’s…
Visitors to San Francisco today would find it hard to believe that there were once three kosher restaurants, four Jewish bakeries, five kosher meat markets, and three Jewish delicatessens in the city. In fact, they were all within a two square-block area known as the Fillmore, once referred to as the Lower East Side of…
The title of a current exhibition of works by the late German Jewish American photographer John Gutmann, “An Emigrant’s Visual Discovery of a New World,” says it all. An immigrant to the United States, Gutmann brought to the striking black and white images he created the eye and sensibility, not only of a foreigner, but…
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