Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Shavuot inspires dairy recipes

By Judy Zeidler

Shavuot celebrates the receiving of the Ten Commandments and the arrival of the spring harvest. But, for food lovers, it is noted for the array of. . .

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Celebrate Shavuot with the best of the spring season

by Helen Nash, JTA

With its tradition of dairy meals, Shavuot is one of my favorite holidays. Arriving later in the spring -- an ideal time to find delicious fruits,. . .

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Adding Israeli spice to the burger mix

by Jared Sichel

Southern California could be considered the epicenter of the hamburger universe. It’s where burger innovation was immortalized — the first. . .

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

A novel meeting of Israeli, Socal culinary worlds

by Jessica Ritz, Contributing Writer

Given the similarities between their respective climates and diverse populations, the food cultures of Israel and Southern California would seem to. . .

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Save the self-pity, choices abound for Passover meals

by Helen Nash, JTA

For the many who feel overwhelmed by Passover because of the demands of cooking without leaven, a word or two: That should not be an obstacle.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

The story of Passover Coca-Cola

by Jared Sichel, Staff Writer

It contains pure cane sugar, is chametz-free, may taste better than the year-round beverage — and is effectively off-limits in the state of. . .

Thursday, March 21, 2013

The Passover Coca-Cola Challenge [VIDEO]

by Jared Sichel, Staff Writer

That Passover Coke tastes better than the year-round version is so often heard in Jewish circles that the Journal decided to hold a “Passover. . .

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Matzah: Simple cracker, detailed story

by Jared Sichel, Staff Writer

The matzah aisle in any local kosher supermarket — even some nonkosher ones — is increasingly more likely to resemble a cereal aisle with its. . .

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Eating Jerusalem [PASSOVER RECIPES]

by Joan Nathan

When I lived in Jerusalem in the 1970s, working as foreign press attaché for Teddy Kollek, the legendary mayor of Jerusalem, we would seek out good. . .

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Kosher – Farm to table

by Zan Romanoff, Contrbuting Writer

Jewish holidays are full of symbolic foodstuffs: We are people of the mouth and stomach at least as much as the people of the book. Passover provides. . .

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Kosher caterer and restaurateur Alain Cohen brings family tradition to his menus, especially at his own Passover seder

by Jessica Ritz, Contributing Writer

It’s late afternoon and the staff at Got Kosher? Café is under the impression that the kitchen isn’t yet able to prepare brik until dinner. . .

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Preparing for spring and the festival of indigestion

by Darcy Vebber, Contrbuting Writer

Uri Laio, proprietor of Brassica and Brine, which calls itself a micro-craft food business, stands at the front of a small crowd gathered to learn. . .

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The art of Passover baking [RECIPES]

By Judy Zeidler

Passover, the Festival of Freedom — also known as the Festival of Unleavened Bread — is celebrated for eight days. Over the centuries, Jewish. . .

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Making Passover a ‘seder to savor’

by Susan Feniger

When I was growing up in Toledo in the late fifties and early sixties, every year at Passover we would go to my cousin’s house for the seder.. . .

Monday, March 11, 2013

Chocolate shakes up the seder ritual

by Deborah Prinz, JTA

Rabbi Adam Schaffer, who's been leading chocolate seders since he edited a chocolate seder haggadah in 1996, acknowledges that “people often do. . .

Monday, March 11, 2013

Save the self-pity, choices abound for Passover meals [RECIPES]

by Helen Nash, JTA

For the many who feel overwhelmed by Passover because of the demands of cooking without leaven, a word or two: That should not be an obstacle.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Empire halts production for a day, leading to fears of kosher chicken shortage

JTA

Empire Kosher shut down production of kosher chickens for one day, leading to fears of a shortage for Passover.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Not your grandfather’s Israeli wine

by Abigail Klein Leichman, New Jersey Jewish Standard

You can’t go wrong with a bottle of wine from one of Israel’s big five wineries — Carmel, Barkan, Golan Heights, Binyamina, Teperberg — or. . .

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Ralphs adds kosher mart

by Darcy Vebber, Contributing Writer

At 8 a.m. on Feb. 6, a sizable space inside the enormous and newly remodeled Ralphs at Third Street and La Brea Avenue became the Hancock Park-La. . .

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

A vegetarian buffet to celebrate Queen Esther [RECIPES]

By Judy Zeidler

What makes Purim so special? Maybe it’s the heroic story of Queen Esther. Whatever you decide, it is still one of the happiest of all Jewish. . .

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Rabbi shares her love of chocolate

by Kylie Jane Wakefield, Contributing Writer

To say that Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz likes chocolate would be a gross — or rather, delicious — understatement. For seven years, she’s traveled. . .

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

‘Ace of Cakes’ goes West

by Gerri Miller, Contributing Writer

It all started with a wedding cake. When Duff Goldman — the now-famous star of the former Food Network reality series “Ace of Cakes” — was. . .

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The Parish

by Evan Henerson, Contributing Writer

At The Parish, breakfast is served with a twist. A dainty lineup of four gourmet biscuit sandwiches arrives containing such unusual fillings as fried. . .

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

In praise of pastrami

By Gina Nahai

You know you’re getting old when every meal starts and ends with an admonition about how food will kill you.