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Jewish Food

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2 Super Bowl menus: Eagles Vs. Chiefs

TAMAR GENGER, JaimeGeller.comPublished February 9, 2023

Super bowl 57 is here and want to celebrate with lots of great food, but which team are you rooting for? We're not taking sides and instead we give you 2 delicious menus to choose from,...

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25 things you didn’t know about Jaime Geller

Jordan Palmer and Jaime GellerPublished February 9, 2023

Jamie Geller influences millions every day. Known as the “Jewish Rachael Ray” (The New York Times), and the “Queen of Kosher” (CBS) 7-time best-selling author Jamie Geller is the Founder and...

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This online kosher nuts business actually started as a pushcart

RACHEL RINGLER, Courtesy of NosherPublished February 7, 2023

When Sol Braverman founded the Newark Nut Company in 1929, he had one goal in mind: to support his immigrant Polish-Jewish family. He did that by selling nuts, dried fruit, eggs, cheese, bread, and pantry...

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Dear Lay’s: Give Us A Replacement For Your New York Reuben Chips

Published February 2, 2023

I love trying crazy snack flavors, especially all the bizarre chip flavors Lay’s comes out with. Over the years, I’ve discovered that Lay’s limited-edition flavors can be hit or miss — and elusive. I...

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Two recipes perfect for a Tu B’shvat Seder

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished February 1, 2023

This weekend Jews around the world will celebrate Tu B’shvat, the Jewish new year for trees. In the Torah, fruit bearing trees are revered because of their importance in sustaining life. The name is...

Photo Courtesy of Beckie Jacobs.

A bit of Jewish ice cream history to get you ready for “Ice Cream for Breakfast Day”

Jordan Palmer and Joanna O'LearyPublished February 1, 2023

Do you remember that wonderful feeling when you were little when your mom woke you up to tell you to go back to sleep because school was canceled due to snow? What a joy. Now imagine your mom was Mrs....

A "Peeps Mobile" at the Just Born candy factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. (Andrew Silow-Carroll)

Bob Born, Jewish maker of Peeps marshmallow candies, dies at 98

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAPublished January 31, 2023

(JTA) — Ira “Bob” Born, the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant who founded the company that makes Peeps candies, has died. He was 98. Born was the former president of Just Born Quality Confections,...

Benny's Bagels launches via Instagram

Benny’s Bagels launches via Instagram

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished January 30, 2023

Have you ever been so frustrated with something and thought you could do a better job? That’s exactly how Ben Kraus felt in 2020 due to his frustration with store-bought bagels and why St. Louis' newest...

St. Louis' 'Bagel Renaissance" continues with opening of Bagel Union

St. Louis’ ‘Bagel Renaissance” continues with opening of Bagel Union

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished January 25, 2023

"Bagel Week" may be over but St. Louis' "Bagel Renaissance" continues unabated.  Our town's newest bagel shop, Bagel Union, is set to open on Wednesday, February 8th. The team from Union Loafers Cafe...

Make your own NY style bagels at home. Photos by Bill Motchan

How to make New York style bagels in your St. Louis kitchen

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished January 18, 2023

There’s nothing quite like the smell—and taste—of a hot bagel. Ideally with cream cheese and lox. Maybe, with cardiologist approval, a schmear of butter or schmaltz. Finding a fresh-out-of-the-oven...

From Left: Jill Rostine, pastry chef. Owner, Amanda Rainey. Sign makers from Heart & Bone Signs in Chicago.  Kelsey and Andrew McClellan.

When this Missouri bagel shop went viral for its Talmud-inspired effort to feed the needy

Published January 18, 2023

“Whoever needs, come and eat.” That’s the quote from the Talmud — the book of Jewish law — that welcomes customers to Goldie’s Bagels in Columbia, Missouri, telling them that people who...

A simple bagel recipe with an "oh-so-good" cheesy twist

A simple bagel recipe with an “oh-so-good” cheesy twist

Barbara Ballinger and Margaret Crane, Special To The Jewish LightPublished January 17, 2023

This blog will be short, simple and delicious in honor of national bagel week. Yes, food is not the be-all-and-end-all in the scheme of world peace, but a great melt-in-your-mouth cheese bagel can do wonders...

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