VIDEO: Watch us make a delicious vegetarian version of the Shabbat stew — cholent
Both the dish and the word first appeared in the Ashkenazi Jewish community of France about 800 years ago
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Food Adafina, a Sephardic Shabbat stew
Adefina, adafina, dafina, aní, hamín, caliente, trasnochado. All these names refer to one thing: the quintessential Shabbat dish of the Sephardic Jews of the 15th century. It was commonly known under different names, and this would have been one way Jews were able to deceive Inquisition officials, as this dish would have revealed the makers…
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Life This Israeli bachelor found community and love by hosting huge Shabbat dinners
Hosting any Shabbat dinner is an achievement. There are guests to be invited. A menu to plan. Food to buy, and cook. A table to set. A house to clean, before and after. And most of this happens over the course of a busy work week. It’s a lot of work, which means what Yaniv…
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Food The Secret Ingredients For The Perfect Cholent: From Coke To Falafel Balls
Growing up, one of the most egregious kitchen crimes my mother ever committed was cooking hot dogs and chopping them up into our Shabbat cholent. Upon finding a hotdog in our cholent, we would collectively groan and push our bowls away. Cholent had a very small window of being good. It isn’t photogenic, it’s easily…
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Recipes 11 Savory Stews For Cozy Fall Cooking
Nothing says cozy like a simmering pot of delicious, aromatic stew. Here’s a roundup of some of our favorites, which run the gamut from meaty braises to hearty cholents to satisfying vegetarian meals. Red-Meat Meals Chicken Concoctions Meatless One-Pot Meals Liza Schoenfein is food editor at the Forward. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter,…
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Food Eating Kitniyot This Week? 8 Recipes From Top Jewish Food Bloggers
Last year, the Conservative movement issued a teshuva, or ruling, that kitniyot — i.e rice, beans and legumes, traditionally avoided by Ashkenazi Jews at Passover — are now permissible. For those who feel liberated by this decision (perhaps feeling that the dictum to avoid chametz is enough of a manacle), you may also be overwhelmed…
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Recipes A Vegan Cholent for Next Shabbat
Photograph by Vered Guttman Of all the Jewish culinary traditions, Shabbat overnight dishes are the ones that ignite my imagination time and again. From the stories of the communal ovens in Eastern European shtetls, Moroccan villages or Jerusalem’s Old City up to today’s families who keep this tradition going, there’s always something very homey and…
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