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Jewish Food

A.J. Moll's recipe for Potato Kugle

A.J. Moll’s recipe for Potato Kugle

AJ Moll, Special For The Jewish LightPublished August 15, 2022

A.J. Moll has been helping provide kosher recipes to the Jewish Light for about a year. And now he has accepted the position of food service director with Missouri Torah Institute, a yeshiva...

Why a food processor is the most Jewish kitchen appliance

Why a food processor is the most Jewish kitchen appliance

MARIAH HALPERIN, NOSHERPublished August 15, 2022

If you were a kitchen appliance, what would you be and why?” my manager asked. It was mid-Monday morning, usually one of the slowest times at the cafe where we worked, and Bob loved to probe the depths...

Lasagna and chesed: Food is love

Lasagna and chesed: Food is love

Gail Wechsler, Special For The Jewish LightPublished August 11, 2022

As a Jew, there are two core tenets that guide my life. The first is tikkun olam, repairing the world. I feel I have an obligation to make the world better than I found it during my lifetime. The second...

Coming soon! Jewish deli fare at Disney World, and how to eat kosher as well

Coming soon! Jewish deli fare at Disney World, and how to eat kosher as well

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished August 9, 2022

I remember walking off the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride at Walt Disney World in Orlando and thinking to myself, "I could really go for a pastrami Reuben right about now" only to then realize there...

The Jewish history of Arby’s

The Jewish history of Arby’s

Published August 7, 2022

“We have the meats.” Ever wonder who the “we” is behind that Arby’s slogan? The answer is Forrest and Leroy Raffel, Jewish brothers from New Castle, Pennsylvania. While the Raffel brothers...

Don’t sleep on Trader Joe’s new Dill Pickle Falafel

Don’t sleep on Trader Joe’s new Dill Pickle Falafel

ALLY SASS, MY JEWISH LEARNINGPublished August 1, 2022

Trader Joe’s is truly the gift that keeps on giving. From za’atar to everything bagel seasoned smoked salmon, it seems the chain has limitless ideas for new spins on classic Jewish and Middle Eastern...

The Choco Taco was the brainchild of a Good Humor driver named Alan Drazen. Image by Klondike

Why all Jews should be saying kaddish for the Choco Taco

By Eric Schulmiller, The ForwardPublished July 29, 2022

In a summer, in a year, in an era of seemingly endless bad news, the announcement that came this past Monday still stung. As reported (eulogized?) by The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post and NPR,...

Soulard Farmers Market in St. Louis on a busy August day in 2011. Credit: Paul Sableman via Wikimedia Commons.

Why we love farmers’ markets and where to find them

Ethel G. Hofman and Jordan Palmer, JNSPublished July 28, 2022

There is just something about a farmers' market. Living in south St. Louis, I am fortunate enough to live very close to Tower Grove Park, where every Saturday, my wife and enjoy taking our dogs to the...

Israeli distillery makes country’s first Kentucky whiskey

Israeli distillery makes country’s first Kentucky whiskey

By Judith Sudilovsky, Israel21cPublished July 27, 2022

Except for the few scattered palm trees you see as you tentatively drive along a bumpy secluded dirt path, you could easily imagine yourself on your way to a moonshine distillery somewhere in the hidden...

Photo courtesy of Adam Scott Bellos

Why wine is the best tool to begin a conversation about Israel

By Carly Brechner, Israel21cPublished July 15, 2022

Adam Scott Bellos is the CEO of The Israel Innovation Fund (TIFF), which invests in commercial and cultural projects in Israel and beyond. He is also the founder and host of Wine with Adam, a video...

This is the world’s first Michelin-starred kosher restaurant

ORGE CASTELLANO, JTAPublished July 15, 2022

MADRID (JTA) — The typical menu at Xerta, a Barcelona restaurant that earned a coveted star from the Michelin Guide, reads like a haute-cuisine treyf banquet: non-kosher dishes such as lobster, squid...

NY and Montreal styles come together at “Down the Bagel Hole: A Celebration of Jewish Breadways"

NY and Montreal styles come together at “Down the Bagel Hole: A Celebration of Jewish Breadways”

Julia Gergely, JTAPublished July 14, 2022

(New York Jewish Week) — New Yorkers defend their favorite bagels and bagel shops the way some people defend their children. So do Montrealers, who hail from perhaps the only other city with a comparable...

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