Our all-time favorite family birthday cake is a Sephardi Jewish Passover cake. I got the recipe from my mother’s friend Lucie Ades, whose family came from France and was of Spanish ancestry. I am guessing that they were from Bayonne in Southwest France, where Jews fleeing the Inquisition in the early sixteenth century settled and…
Kosher pareve semi-sweet chocolate chips have been returning to Trader Joe’s stores across the country in recent weeks, a delectable sight for halachic shoppers since they disappeared from the shelves in 2012. It was a great kosher calamity at the time, reminiscent of the bank runs before the Great Depression. Frantic shoppers cleaned out the…
On the 4th of July, which this year falls on the Sabbath, I plan to celebrate the Jewish role of Revolutionary-period chocolate in North America with a homemade, refreshing, frozen hot chocolate. I recommend that you do the same. Drinking chocolate became a very popular substitute for politically incorrect tea in the Colonies around the…
Israeli startup A1C Foods Ltd. develops chocolate and ice cream that the company says does not impact blood sugar levels. Instead of substituting real sugar with artificial sweeteners, a spokeswoman for A1C told Calcalist the company’s treats are made with traditional ingredients like flour and sugar, with the addition of a patent-pending “formulation” that lowers…
Did Jewish refugees bring the art of chocolate making to Bayonne, France? What is a chocolate stone? Was George Washington a big chocolate drinker? What’s the difference between slow chocolate and fast chocolate? The woman who possesses the answers to these questions of our time is Rabbi Debbie Prinz, the foremost expert in our time…
The only formally certified fair trade and kosher for Passover chocolate of recent years, no longer exists, exactly. In 2013 some of the chocolate bars made by the fair trade Equal Exchange Chocolate were certified kosher for Passover. This first-ever Passover kosher/fair trade certified chocolate combo resulted from a project initiated by Ilana Schatz, Founding…
The last time I was in a gallery that smelled distinctly and deliciously of chocolate I was in Barcelona visiting Museu de la Xocolata. That is, until this week, when I entered the Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica at Temple Emanu-El on New York’s Upper East Side (where my grandparents were members), to…
Our family likes to celebrate Valentine’s Day, which I realize isn’t a Jewish holiday, but makes for harmless fun, especially when the grandkids are involved. Some of the best times are when we cook together. The children feel proud of their efforts and wind up with something delicious. I get to pass on a zillion…
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