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Food At the new Schmaltz Bros. kosher restaurant, you can get Nashville hot chicken, fried in, yes, schmaltz
Washington, D.C.’s only kosher food truck is putting it in park. The Schmaltz Bros food truck will soon be offering a blend of foods from different Jewish cultures at Hamakom, a kosher restaurant at the new Hillel space on George Washington University’s campus. Yehuda Makla, 37, Schmaltz Bros co-owner, grew up in the Orthodox Jewish…
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Food This old Sephardic recipe will become your go-to chocolate birthday cake
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…
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Food Here’s the new Mediterranean cookbook you need now
At 85, Claudia Roden published her twelfth cookbook, “Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean: Treasured Recipes From a Lifetime of Travel”
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Food Here’s the cheesy, crispy dish that made me and Alice Waters swoon together
Here’s a name drop I don’t deserve: Many years ago I attended Slow Food’s Terra Madre food conference in Turin, Italy. I happened to be standing in line to get a slice of freshly-made focaccia di Recco, and next to me stood Alice Waters. We watched the bakers stretch impossibly thin sheets of rolled-out dough…
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Culture Why attending the Brookyn Bagelfest made us hate bagels
Immediately upon walking into the Brooklyn Bagelfest, you passed a photo booth featuring a kiddie pool filled with real bagels. A steady stream of eager Instagrammers stepped into the pool to take pictures with oversized inflatable props, like fried eggs, bacon and palm trees — bagels are, after all, traditionally a tropical food. “These Bagels…
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Food I’m a young Jewish farmer. Here’s one way to save the Earth
Appropriately appearing just before the harvest festival of Sukkot, this column marks the beginning of a series on farming and food from Remi and Gavi Welbel, who run Zumwalt Acres, a sustainable Jewish farm in Illinois. Growing up, my sister and I often joked that our father thought asparagus could save the world. Driving along…
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Recipes This Rosh Hashanah, let your honey be silan — date syrup
This Rosh Hashanah, eat like an ancient Israelite. Skip the bees’ honey and go for silan, a thick syrup made from dates that has been around the Middle East for millennia. Silan is made from the fruit of the towering date palm trees that are mentioned in the Bible and are often depicted in Jewish…
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Food Better-than-honey cake Italian honey cookies
I’m not ashamed to admit that outside our kosher home, I don’t just eat kosher food. But admitting I don’t really like popular Jewish foods— that’s kind of embarrassing. Here’s my short list of the foods of my People that I’d be fine living without: pickled herring, chopped liver, matzo brei, sweet kugel and honey…
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