Tag: Jewish food
116-Year-Old UES Jewish Bakery Glaser’s Will Close This Summer
An Upper East Side institution at 116 years old, Jewish bakery Glaser’s Bake Shop will close its doors come July 1. Owners, still the Glaser family but now in its third generation, posted on Facebook that...
The Cooking Classes that Americanized Jewish Immigrants
With every new wave of immigration, there are those who ask how the newcomers can ever become truly American. At the end of the nineteenth century, a Wisconsin woman named Elizabeth “Lizzie” Black Kander...
8 Jewish Fried Foods from Around the World for this Hannukah
With eight days, and three meals a day, Hanukkah offers ample opportunities for trying out all kinds of fried foods. You can definitely find enough latke and sufganiyot (donuts) recipes to fill up every...
Where to eat Kosher in Mexico City
La Muertita—the Little Dead Woman—sets up her quesadilla stall every evening on a busy commercial thoroughfare called Prolongación in the hilly neighborhood of Bosques de Reforma on the western outskirts of Mexico City. She...
In Jewish cookbook, author Joan Nathan takes readers around the world
Joan Nathan takes readers on a world tour of Jewish cooking in her latest book.
“King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking From Around the World” (Alfred A. Knopf, $35) is the result...
Meet Shannon Sarna, ‘Modern Jewish Baker’
Shannon Sarna, 35, of South Orange has baked new life into old standards, and she’s got me believing in the power of resurrection when it comes to Jewish carbohydrates.
If you swoon over the buttery...
Carmel Valley festival offers a taste of Jewish culture
You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy Jewish food and culture.
Many found that out Sunday at the 30th annual Jewish Food Festival at Congregation Beth Israel on Carmel Valley Road.
The annual fundraising event...
How jewish humor (and food) can save a family
Fifteen years ago, my dad died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 58. First there was shock, then disbelief—and once there was acceptance, of course the sadness and grief kicked in....
Syrian Jewish cuisine: a food in exile
We often draw empathy, not from our imagination, but from seeing our past staring back at us. As the global Jewish community grapples with how best to respond to the Syrian refugee crisis, we...
Jewish culinary cuisines continue to evolve
When it comes to Jewish food, it can be defined in different ways: For Steven Cook, it was his mother’s matzo ball soup made with onion soup mix; for Joan Nathan, it was canned...