Celebrating Christmukkah? There’s a food for that.
That traditional Christmas dish you’re serving might just be Jewish
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Culture Would you put jalapeños in matzo ball soup? This Mexican Jewish cookbook says, ‘sí’
New 'Sabor Judio' cookbook delivers recipes with New World flavors and Old World traditions
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Food She beat drugs, found love, and makes L.A.’s best Jewish-Mexican pastrami taco
When Elizabeth Heitner, 26 years old and newly sober, stared at the Pacific Ocean and contemplated what to do next, she thought back to her happiest times growing up. For some families, holiday dinners require days of brining, chopping and parboiling. For the Heitners in their Upper East Side apartment, a Passover seder or a…
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Food Churros for Hanukkah anyone? The new Pati Jinich cookbook breaks down borders
Before she was a cookbook author and host of the James Beard Award-winning PBS series “Pati’s Mexican Table,” Pati Jinich was a political analyst. The relevance of this information became crystal clear the moment she began speaking with The Forward about her new cookbook, “Treasures of the Mexican Table.” “Food has the capacity to open…
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Food A Mexican Jew walks into a bar, and creates her own tequila
There once lived a woman in Guadalajara who was so beautiful that she was known as La Mujer Mas Bella — The Most Beautiful Lady. But it was her inner beauty that inspired her granddaughter, Dafna Mizrahi, to make tequila. “Everyone knew my grandma because of how beautiful she was, but more how internally beautiful…
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Food Jewish Foodies Are Turning Increasingly To Mexican Food — Despite The Politics
Over the past ten years, Jews have flirted with Mexican-Jewish food, creating unexpected fusion recipes (poblano matzo balls, anyone?), kosher taquerias, and Jewish-Mexican bakeries. With Izzy Eidelman, the creator of Izzy’s Kosher Steakhouse, now setting his sights on a taqueria in the beta-testing kosher area of Crown Heights (after all, if you can open a…
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