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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Jewish Food

It’s the perfect time to get into pickling

Sophia GottfriedPublished April 29, 2020

This story originally appeared on The Nosher.You’ve tried coaxing a sourdough starter to life or braiding a challah, turned speckled bananas into muffins, maybe even churned out sheets of pasta. For...

Sudeep Agarwala is a yeast scientist and challah enthusiast whose guidance for home bakers has taken off online. (Courtesy of Agarwala) 

Meet the challah-tinkering yeast scientist who’s helping pandemic bread bakers get a good rise

Philissa CramerPublished March 31, 2020

(JTA) — Few people have any great solutions for this difficult moment in human history, but Sudeep Agarwala is one of them.As a yeast scientist, Agarwala spends much of his time thinking about the single-celled...

Margi Lenga Kahn

Challenging times call for a different kind of seder

By Margi Lenga Kahn, Special to the Jewish LightPublished March 26, 2020

What frightening and challenging times we are living in, when our daily lingo now includes “social distancing,” “self-quarantining” and “sheltering in place.”One of the four questions asked...

Dulce de leche hamantaschen. Photo: Leann Shore

Dulce de leche hamantaschen: Rethinking a famed South American cookie for Purim

By Leanne Shor, The Nosher via JTAPublished March 5, 2020

This recipe originally appeared in The Nosher.Bringing new life to hamantaschen was a challenge. People are dead set on their favorite flavors like classic poppy seed and apricot. Of course, newer directions...

Ice Cream

Here’s the scoop on the surprising Jewish history of an iconic American ice cream brand

By Joanna O’Leary, The Nosher via JTAPublished February 27, 2020

Jewish entrepreneurs started some of the  biggest names in frozen treat industry Chunky Monkey. Rum Tres Leches. Banana Nut Fudge. Who gave the world the gift of these delectable ice cream...

Zucchini, potato and Manchego pashtida.   

You are going to crave this easy Israeli quiche

BY LEANNE SHOR, THE NOSHER VIA JTAPublished February 20, 2020

Americans don’t have nearly the appreciation that Israelis do for quiche. In the States, it’s an unimaginative brunch addition that never really shines. But in Israel, it’s the star of many lunch...

The Jewish history of America’s most famous ice cream

Joanna O’LearyPublished February 20, 2020

This story originally appeared on The Nosher.Chunky Monkey. Rum Tres Leches. Banana Nut Fudge.Who gave the world the gift of these delectable ice cream flavor inventions?   While Italian immigrants are...

Margi Lenga Kahn is the mother of five and grandmother of five. A cooking   instructor at the Kitchen Conservatory, she is working on a project to preserve  the stories and recipes of heritage cooks. She welcomes your comments and suggestions at margikahn@gmail.com.

Nourishing soup to warm the soul

By Margi Lenga Kahn, Special to the Jewish LightPublished January 23, 2020

Every ethnic cuisine has at least one soup that is uniquely identified with the culture and the geography of that group. The Japanese have their ramen, the Italians their minestrone, the French their pistou,...

(Shannon Sarna)

Why you should be making pizza bourekas

Shannon SarnaPublished January 8, 2020

This article originally appeared on The Nosher. Bourekas were one of the foods I fell in love with hard while in Israel for the first time. I am a sucker for pastry filled with, well, basically...

(Emanuelle Lee)

Onion and chickpea Indian fritters make a nice deep-fried nosh for Hanukkah

Emanuelle LeePublished December 11, 2019

This recipe originally appeared on The Nosher.It’s not every day you’re actually encouraged to indulge in a deep-fried afternoon snack, so I feel obliged not to pass up that opportunity when Hanukkah...

Joan Nathan’s Top 15 favorite Jewish foods

By Gabe Friedman JTAPublished December 5, 2019

If you’re part of a Jewish family in the United States, there’s a decent chance you grew up in the vicinity of a Joan Nathan cookbook. Her many books, like “Jewish Cooking in America,” have been...

(LeAnne Shor)

Bukharian chicken and herbed rice: A fragrant one-pot meal with a generations-old recipe

Leanne ShorPublished December 4, 2019

This recipe originally appeared on The Nosher.Why use several different pots and pans when you can fit a full meal into one?Bachsh is a traditional Bukharian rice and meat dish that is loaded with aromatic...

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