Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Passover prep, unbound [RECIPES]
By Judy Zeidler
Food plays an important role during Passover — from the six symbolic items on the seder plate to those foods avoided during the eight-day holiday, . . .
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The Tabouli Lesson [RECIPE]
By Rob Eshman
They say we are all children of the same God, but it’s clear we don’t act like it. For centuries we’ve slaughtered one another in the name of . . .
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Kosher milk comes to China
JTA
A Beijing dairy has begun distributing fresh kosher milk throughout . . .
Friday, January 29, 2010
It’s a wrap
By Judy Zeidler
While growing up in Jewish Los Angeles, I was exposed to many traditional Ashkenazic dishes — kreplach, cheese blintzes and strudel, to name a few. . . .
Friday, January 29, 2010
Old Favorite, New Setting
Zan Romanoff
For anyone who has grown up in a Jewish household, deli is a byword for comfort, promising big cushy booths and matzah ball soup and old-fashioned . . .
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
British kosher food companies raided
JTA
Two British kosher food companies were raided for having illegal . . .
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Gribenes: The Joy of Skin [VIDEO]
By Rob Eshman
Whatever happened to gribenes?
I still make them every time I roast a chicken or make chicken soup; couldn’t be more simple. . . .
Monday, January 4, 2010
New Jewish food movement steps up focus on social justice
By Sue Fishkoff, JTA
Karyn Moskowitz runs the Fresh Stop Project, a food co-op program at a historic black Baptist church in West Louisville, Ky., a low-income, largely . . .
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Secular and Religious Israelis Begin a Serious Cake Fight
by Benjamin Joffe-Walt, The Media Line
Israel's chief rabbi has launched an unprecedented campaign to forbid Israeli courts from interfering in matters pertaining to Jewish dietary laws . . .
Friday, December 4, 2009
Microbreweries bubbling up in Israel
By Ari Miller, JTA
David Cohen doesn’t think Goldstar beer is bad -- especially for a macro-brewed, industrial label that is Israel’s most . . .
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Vegan Adventures With Alicia Silverstone [RECIPES]
By Naomi Pfefferman
As Alicia Silverstone stands at the counter of the vegan Cafe Flourish in Los Angeles, she’s not immediately recognizable as the vixen in Aerosmith . . .
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Do Rugelach and Egg Rolls a Chanukah Make?
by Lisa Keys
I’ll admit it: Chanukah is a holiday I’ve approached with diminishing enthusiasm over the years. I’m not into latkes; I prefer egg rolls. . . .
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Chanukah in Tuscany
By Judy Zeidler
When we were invited for a Tuscan Chanukah dinner at the home of our friends chef Jeff Thickman and musician Igor Polesitsky, who live in a wonderful . . .
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
A Jewish Thanksgiving Prayer
by Mark Pearlman, JInsider.com
A Jewish Thanksgiving . . .
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Thanksgiving recipes that travel well
By Linda Morel, JTA
Picture the typical Thanksgiving table: Family and friends are gathered around a big fat turkey, bowls of stuffing, cranberry relish, yams and . . .
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Shmoozing at a Jewish Thanksgiving
By Edmon J. Rodman, JTA
When it’s time to talk turkey, what do Jews have to . . .
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Thanksgiving tradition mostly lives for expat Americans in Israel
By Marcy Oster, JTA
About three months after she and her family made aliyah, Laura Savren walked up to the meat counter of her local supermarket and asked to order a . . .
Friday, November 13, 2009
Sholom Rubashkin convicted on 86 charges
JTA
A jury convicted Sholom Rubashkin, the former owner of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse, of 86 out of 91 fraud . . .
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Bacon-wrapped matzah balls with Top Chef Ilan Hall
By Orit Arfa
Even before The Gorbals first opened for dinner on Aug. 28, chef Ilan Hall’s bacon-wrapped matzah balls served with horseradish mayonnaise had . . .
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
21st Century Kosher
by Mark Pearlman of JInsider.com
As seen in The Jewish . . .
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Langer’s: The Platonic Pastrami Ideal [VIDEO]
By JewishJournal.com
“The hot pastrami sandwich served at Langer’s Delicatessen in downtown Los Angeles is the finest hot pastrami sandwich in the world,” David Sax . . .
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Heretic: Q & A With David Sax
By Rob Eshman
Rob Eshman interviews David Sax, author of the book, "Save the . . .
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Move Over, New York
by David Sax
Brace yourselves, New York, because what I am about to write is definitely going to piss a lot of you off, but it needs to be said: Los Angeles has . . .
Thursday, October 15, 2009
U.S. appetite for Israeli food grows
By Gil Shefler, JTA
When the staff at Hummus Place hauled the oven into the kitchen of the Israeli-owned chain's flagship branch and switched it on, no one was quite . . .
