Seven years ago, my wife wrote an entire book about praying to God without using formal prayers. I’m the same way, but with recipes. I love reading recipes, I collect cookbooks, I enjoy food magazines—but they all serve more for inspiration than
The best way to remember Judy Zeidler is through her recipes This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Many years ago I was searching the aisles of a
A fall dish for the holiday come from North Africa and draws out the charms of an often overlooked fruit This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. When I see the
This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. This Purim, which happens to coincide with St. Patrick’s Day, there are two kinds of hamantaschen you should consider buying or
This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. If Purim and St. Patrick’s Day, which both fall on March 17 this year, have one thing in common, it’s drinking.
This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolded, author Gary Shteyngart posted on Instagram that he was “stress eating holubtsi.” That makes
This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. There’s nothing uniquely Jewish about chicken soup. There, I said it. Everywhere on earth where there are chickens — which is
This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Here’s a name drop I don’t deserve: Many years ago I attended Slow Food’s Terra Madre food conference in Turin, Italy.
This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. In the scheme of things —Afghanistan, global warming, the Delta variant— the “Great Bagel Off” may not ask the most urgent
This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Quickly-boiled beet greens mixed with capers and garlic, stuffed into thin, pounded-out beef shoulder and braised in a red wine-tomato sauce
