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Jewish Food

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Why you should be making rectangular latkes for Hanukkah this year

BY ELYSSA HELLER, My Jewish LearningPublished December 1, 2022

It turns out that latkes don’t actually have to be round. What makes a latke a latke is not its circular shape but that the potatoes are mixed in an egg batter and then fried. The latke batter for these...

Rabbi Eliyahu Chitrik, 21, takes in one of the opening-week matches at the World Cup in Qatar. He spends most of his time at the games providing kosher food to Jewish visitors.

Kosher food, Shabbat arrive at World Cup in Qatar

By Bruria Efune, Chabad.org/newsPublished November 30, 2022

More than 400 freshly baked challahs were enjoyed by Jewish fans and officials at the World Cup in Qatar this past Shabbat. Baked in a kitchen specially koshered by a young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi...

How heirloom recipes connect generations in the sweetest way

How heirloom recipes connect generations in the sweetest way

BILL MOTCHAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished November 17, 2022

When Erin Wolfman May bakes a batch of mandel brot, she feels a special closeness to her great-grandmother Clara. That’s because she uses Clara Wolfman’s recipe. It’s just one in a collection of...

Morris Rubin opened Rubin’s Delicatessen in Brookline, Mass., a suburb of Boston, in the 1920s. (Courtesy of Shuly Rubin Schwartz)

I’m a Jewish historian, my grandparents ran a deli. Maybe we’re in the same business.

Shuly Rubin Schwartz, JTAPublished November 14, 2022

(JTA) — Like so many other American Jews from the New York area, I have been eagerly awaiting “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” the new exhibit on the American Jewish deli now on view at the New-York...

How to make an all-star chicken soup with just the right amount of salt

How to make an all-star chicken soup with just the right amount of salt

By Molly Yeh, The ForwardPublished November 13, 2022

The most gratifying requirement of being a Jewish mother is having a chicken soup practice. This soup doesn’t have to be an original recipe or contain secrets that make it the best. It honestly doesn’t...

A new exhibit on Jewish delis explores the roots and rise of a uniquely American phenomenon

Lisa Keys, New York Jewish WeekPublished November 10, 2022

(New York Jewish Week) — It was a stupendously bad idea to arrive at the press preview for the New-York Historical Society’s new exhibit, “‘I’ll Have What She’s Having’: The Jewish Deli,”...

Campaigning in Iowa, Doug Emhoff stops by kosher deli as statement against antisemitism

Published November 7, 2022

(JTA) — With antisemitism on his mind this weekend, Doug Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, took a detour to the nearest Jewish deli. The Second Gentleman was in Iowa to campaign for Deidre...

Andy Cohen's "Peppermint Andy" ice cream is back at Clementine's

Andy Cohen’s “Peppermint Andy” ice cream is back at Clementine’s

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished November 6, 2022

One of our favorite St. Louis Jewish celebrities is again bringing sweetness to our lives. Clementine's Naughty and Nice Creamery has announced its re-launching "Peppermint Andy," a seasonal flavor created...

Your Shabbat Challah Recipe: No-Knead Challah

Your Shabbat Challah Recipe: No-Knead Challah

Published November 4, 2022

Of the essential elements comprising Judaism, perhaps the most universally known and beloved are challah, the centerpiece of the weekly Shabbat table and many holidays. So, every Friday the St. Louis Jewish...

Your Shabbat Challah Recipe: Salted Maple Challah

Your Shabbat Challah Recipe: Salted Maple Challah

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished November 3, 2022

Of the essential elements comprising Judaism, perhaps the most universally known and beloved is challah, the centerpiece of the weekly Shabbat table and many holidays. So, every Friday the St. Louis...

The brief Jewish history of candy cigarettes

The brief Jewish history of candy cigarettes

BY ALLY SASS, JTAPublished October 27, 2022
This retro candy has a surprising Jewish legacy behind it.
Phil Rosenthal

Phil from “Somebody Feed Phil” coming to eat in St. Louis

BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished October 26, 2022

What was so special about Helen Rosenthal’s matzoh ball soup?  “Nothing,” her son Phil says.  In the second season of “Somebody Feed Phil,” Rosenthal’s Netflix show, he featured the dish...

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