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Jewish Food

Giti Fredman knows the "art of baking challah" is the experience it brings

Giti Fredman knows the “art of baking challah” is the experience it brings

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished February 4, 2022
The eggy Jewish bread may be centuries old, but an enterprising baker has brought the art of the Challah bake online.
Why Dr. Harley Hammerman is keeping St. Louis' restaurant history alive

Why Dr. Harley Hammerman is keeping St. Louis’ restaurant history alive

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished February 1, 2022

St. Louis is a town of passions. Sports, the arts, culture, beer, our history, and of course, our restaurants. For a city our size, to have as many media entities covering the food scene as we have shows...

Your Wednesday Jewish Soup Spectacular #5

Your Wednesday Jewish Soup Spectacular #5

Ethel G. HofmanPublished February 1, 2022

(JNS) Thick, aromatic and brimming with good taste, soup is the perfect food in cold weather. Each spoonful warms and comforts like nothing else. Besides chicken soup—the panacea for what ails you—chances...

Restaurateur Aaron Teitelbaum decided to close his three restaurants during the coronavirus pandemic.

Remember Monarch? Here’s the story of it and its Jewish co-owner

Harley Hammerman, Special For The Jewish LightPublished January 30, 2022

There is an amazing website called Lost Tables, dedicated to celebrating the restaurants of our past. We are partnering with the site’s creator Harley Hammerman and celebrating these wonderful stories....

Your Wednesday Jewish Soup Spectacular #4

Your Wednesday Jewish Soup Spectacular #4

Published January 25, 2022

The St. Louis Jewish Light, a lot of soup recipes in our database.  A precursory search found over 200 soup recipes, some dating back 30ish years. Because recipes do not go bad, we’re going to bring...

Cherry Kugel: an easy treat that has everyone asking for more

Cherry Kugel: an easy treat that has everyone asking for more

Rhonda Albom, Special For The Jewish LightPublished January 24, 2022

Combining two of my favorite foods: noodle kugel and cherries, you know that this cherry kugel is going to be a real treat. It makes a great side dish and an even better dessert. It was contributed by...

In addition to beets, this salad recipe includes avocado, feta cheese, cucumber and banana peppers. Photo: Katie Silver

This beet salad is suprisingly easy — and tasty

KATIE SILVER, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, SeniorPublished January 20, 2022

“Ooh? For me?” I said, coming home to what I knew was my mom’s lunch for herself. “You can have some,” my mom replied. (She knew I would try it anyway.) In the bowl on the counter was a...

Easy roast chicken and lemon soup

Easy roast chicken and lemon soup

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished January 18, 2022

The St. Louis Jewish Light, a lot of soup recipes in our database.  A precursory search found over 200 soup recipes, some dating back 30ish years. Because recipes do not go bad, we’re going to bring...

Ed Schoenfeld, Jewish restaurateur who helped promote Chinese food in the 1970s and 80s, is dead at 72

Ed Schoenfeld, Jewish restaurateur who helped promote Chinese food in the 1970s and 80s, is dead at 72

Published January 18, 2022

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Ed Schoenfeld, a Jewish restaurateur who helped promote an array of Chinese food options in New York City over decades, died Friday at 72. Schoenfeld’s love of cooking...

Big changes, new bagels and a viral video, all new from Lefty's Bagels

Big changes, new bagels and a viral video, all new from Lefty’s Bagels

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished January 13, 2022

If your first rule of where you buy your bagels is to buy from someone who is sort of mean, no fun, and doesn't like making bagels, then please read no further. The guy's from Lefty's Bagels are...

Barley-Carrot_Croquettes. Photo: Michael Kahn

Tu B’Shevat seder features a lucky seven food species

MARGI LENGA KAHN, Special to the Jewish LightPublished January 13, 2022

Rabbi Eliyahu Safran of the Orthodox Union refers to the number seven as the perfect number. “Seven is completeness and wholesomeness,” he says. There are numerous examples in Judaism of the significance...

Your Wednesday Jewish Soup Spectacular #3

Your Wednesday Jewish Soup Spectacular #3

Rob Eshen, The ForwardPublished January 11, 2022

“This story was originally published on Jan. 9 by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning.” Everyone needs a go-to matzah ball...

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