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Recipes This Passover Survival Guide Is Everything
Passover is a rough time of year. Deep down, all Jews know this. It is when we ask ourselves the four questions: 1.Why do we bother? 2.Why do we bother? 3.Why do we bother? 4.Why do we bother? If this is that time of the year when you begin to contemplate divorce or conversion to…
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Food Quinoa Will Save Millions Of Jews From Starvation This Passover
A Brief History of Quinoa You’ll probably be shocked to hear that quinoa used to be the poor man’s food. (Whole Foods clearly didn’t get that memo.) When the Spanish invaded South America, they mocked the grain and called it “food for the Indians”. They forbid the cultivation of the grain, and the Incas (who…
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Food A Kosher Chipotle-Style Restaurant Opens In Baltimore
Downtown Baltimore will be getting a kosher chipotle-style ‘The Daily Special’ at 201 N. Charles St. for a quick bite as soon as Passover ends. The restaurant will feature the delicacies of Chef Daniel Neuman, previously of kosher steakhouse ‘Serengeti’ in Pikesville, Maryland, according to Ayelet Dresin, who is co-ordinating the launch. So dream big,…
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Food Joan Nathan Looks Back On Her Legacy
Eleven cookbooks. Four decades in the food industry. Fifty countries visited. Recognition from the James Beard Foundation and the IACP. Her latest cookbook, King Solomon’s Table is a reminder of just how prevalent Joan Nathan is in the Jewish culinary world. Has Joan Nathan done it all? To most people in the food world, Joan…
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Community What Kind Of Wine Are You Having At The Passover Seder?
Of all of the Passover traditions, the obligation to have four cups of wine (or grape juice) at the Passover seder might be the most controversial. Yes, even more hotly debated than sinkers vs. floaters. More essential than whether or not matzo is to be suffered or savored. While there are many varieties of kosher…
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Life A Very Forward Passover Guide To All Things Wine And Booze
There’s so much more to Pesach alcohol than your grandfather’s Silvovitz (or Arak if you’re Sephardi) and the four cups of wine during the Seder. First, some ground rules: Jews are biblically prohibited from consuming chometz, products that contain even a speck of wheat, barley, rye, oats or spelt, during the 8 days of Passover….
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Community The Great Matzo Ball Debate: Do You Prefer Floaters Or Sinkers?
We’re less than a month away from Passover, and many of us are already dreaming of fluffy matzo balls in our soup. But like most Jewish traditions, there’s a great debate surrounding matzo balls: That of floaters vs. sinkers. Last year, our food editor Liza Schoenfien took to Twitter and found that 60 percent of…
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Food Jewish Barbecue Is The Best — Even If You Hate Brooklyn BBQ
Some senators recently took to Twitter to mock Vice’s new article on the rising popularity of Brooklyn barbecue. The article went viral as people took affront to the pathetic, sparse spread and New Yorker exceptionalism. The Internet has spoken, and it has declared Brooklyn barbecue ‘not a thing.’ Why is Brooklyn barbecue taking over the…
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