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Opinion Joan Nathan’s new cookbook is about much more than food
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Food A Brooklyn Hasid and Ohio Christian farmer create kosher recipes to feed the needy
Alexander Rapaport is a Brooklyn Chasid with a black beard and payes who dresses in the traditional black coat, white shirt and prayer shawl. Lee Jones is an Ohio born-and-bred Christian farmer known by his uniform of blue overalls and red bowtie. Since their first meeting seven years ago at a conference for culinary leaders…
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Food Danielle Renov’s new cookbook celebrates Sephardic and Askenazic food—just not raisins
There are 86 things Jerusalem-based, Long Island-born food blogger Danielle Renov wants you to know about her new kosher cookbook, “Peas Love & Carrots” — and about cooking in general. She lists them across two pages right up front, and like the book itself the list is highly practical and deeply personal — a combination…
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Food The Top 11 Jew-ish Cookbooks Coming Out This Fall
1.Now & Again by Julia Turshen– Out September 4, Chronicle Books This cookbook is an ode to leftovers, created by a woman who understands that social change begins at the table. What’s being served? Who gets to sit at these tables? Turshen answers these questions in her subtly pro-sustainability cookbook that tells you not only…
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Food How Crisco Overtook Schmaltz In American Jewish Cooking
“Crisco Recipes For The Jewish Housewife” was a slim, 77-paged piece of marketing material slash cookbook, manufactured by Proctor and Gamble and copyrighted in 1933. Crisco, the first brand of shortening to be made entirely of vegetable oil, happened to be neither dairy nor meat, making it the perfect product to hawk to Yiddish speaking…
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Food Orthodox Kosher Foodies Are Taking Center Stage On Instagram
Today’s food celebrities on Instagram are increasingly coming from an unlikely place — the kosher foodies of the Orthodox Jewish community. This phenomenon of religious kosher food bloggers like Jamie Geller, with 33.4k followers (and frequent appearances on TV), or @peasandcarrots , with her 27.9k followers, or @dinidelivers,with her 21.9k followers, may be indicative of…
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Recipes ‘Celebrate’ Thanksgiving With A Sumptuous Acorn Squash Recipe
When I was in college, living over 1,000 miles away, nothing made me feel closer to home than attending one of the weekly Shabbat dinners hosted by the Jewish organizations on campus. Every week I would meet someone new, and because we had broken bread (or challah) there was an instant bond between us. Related…
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