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Jewish Food

Local Eat of the Week: Protzel’s Corned Beef & Pastrami Reuben

Local Eat of the Week: Protzel’s Corned Beef & Pastrami Reuben

Alec Baris, Special to the Jewish LightPublished September 9, 2021

St. Louis is home to some fantastic spots that offer amazing entertainment and dining experiences. As an STL native whose two loves are Cardinal baseball and food, I’m experiencing a new one each week...

Local eat of the week: Grassi’s veal parmigiana

Local eat of the week: Grassi’s veal parmigiana

Alec Baris, Digital Engagement AssociatePublished September 2, 2021

St. Louis is home to some fantastic spots that offer amazing entertainment and dining experiences. As an STL native whose two loves are Cardinal baseball and food, I’m experiencing a new one each week...

Tispishti (Walnut-Cake). Photo by Margi Lenga Kahn

A Sephardic Rosh Hashanah from Turkey

Margi Lenga Kahn, Special For The Jewish LightPublished September 1, 2021

Leyla and Erman Kaspi are Jews from Turkey who I recently met outside the elevator of our Chicago apartment complex. After the usual introductions, I asked Leyla whether she still cooks the dishes with...

Apple Tart Squares with Honey Glaze

Apple Tart Squares with Honey Glaze

Eitan Bernath, ForwardPublished September 1, 2021

Eitan Bernath, the 19 year-old cooking phenom, shares a sweet, flakey recipe for fall. Ingredients 1 sheet puff pastry dough, defrosted 1 egg, lightly beaten 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons cinnamon 3 tart...

This Jewish family has been making honey wine for 150 years

Stacey PfefferPublished September 1, 2021

This article originally appeared on Kveller. Rachel Lipman cares deeply about preserving her Jewish family’s fifth-generation winemaking business, Loew Vineyards, but the 28-year-old is keeping an...

14 fun facts about Rosh Hashanah and the holiday season

Jessica HalfinPublished August 31, 2021

This article appeared first at Israel21c in September of 2019. Chag sameach! Happy holiday! You’ve survived the hot Israeli summer and now the High Holiday season has arrived. Here are some fun...

Kosher Recipe Alert: Apple, Pear and Pomegranate Crisp

Kosher Recipe Alert: Apple, Pear and Pomegranate Crisp

HOWARD WASSERMAN, ADVENTURES IN KOSHER COOKINGPublished August 31, 2021

The Hebrew word “kosher” means fit or proper as it relates to Jewish dietary law. Kosher foods are permitted to be eaten and can be used as ingredients in the production of additional food items. And...

10 great reasons to love the pomegranate

Abigail Klein LeichmanPublished August 31, 2021

(Israel21c) - Coaxing the edible seeds out of a pomegranate is a popular how-to topic. Some swear by the whack-with-a-wooden-spoon method; others massage out those ruby-red arils in a bowl of water to...

High Holiday Italian honey cookies

High Holiday Italian honey cookies

Rob Eshman, ForwardPublished August 30, 2021

I’m not ashamed to admit that outside our kosher home, I don’t just eat kosher food. But admitting I don’t really like popular Jewish foods— that’s kind of embarrassing. Here’s my short...

8 ways the Start-Up Nation is trying to save the bees

Naama Barak, ISRAEL21cPublished August 30, 2021

Rosh Hashana is upon us, and that means honey on our tables and honeybees on our minds. It’s no secret that the humble honeybee is in danger. The global bee population is dying at a dizzying rate...

A Persian meat and apple stew for Rosh Hashanah

A Persian meat and apple stew for Rosh Hashanah

Tannaz Sassooni, ForwardPublished August 29, 2021

When I was in elementary school, my family visited my cousin Rashel at her home in Maryland, and everything about the trip felt new. Rashel’s teenage daughters seemed so cool and confident, Rashel...

Everything bagel-flavored ice cream now exists and we don’t know what to think

Irene Katz ConnellyPublished August 27, 2021

This morning, I ate an everything bagel that was exactly what an everything bagel should be. Slathered in cream cheese. Garnished with a judicious sprinkle of caraway seeds. Slightly crispy from the freezer....

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