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    San Francisco's Wise Sons Deli Uses Every Part Of The Pastrami

    Wise Sons Deli in San Francisco's Mission District doesn't let a single ounce of their wood-smoked pastrami go unconsumed. It's as if they were inspired by their grandmothers' kitchen habits, which sounds like a pretty dang authentic deli to us. How authentic, you ask? The phone number listed on their website comes with the caveat: "You…
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    Passover Breakfast: LEO Matzo Brei

    If anyone knows matzo, it's Michele Streit Heilbrun — co-owner of Streit's matzo. Matzo can be made into delicious dishes, including this LEO matzo brei.
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    Cauliflower And Mushroom Kugel Recipe

    The traditional Jewish cuisine that warms your soul gets a makeover in The Gefilte Manifesto. This cauliflower and mushroom kugel is a hearty side dish.
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    Low And Slow: Make Gefilteria's Wine-Braised Brisket

    The traditional Jewish cuisine that warms your soul and fuels your holidays gets a makeover in The Gefilte Manifesto, a collection of recipes by Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz. As owners of artisanal fish loaf haven Gefilteria, their spin on Ashkenazi Jewish food is as appetizing as it is contemporary, spruced up for the next generation…
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    How To Make Homemade Matzo, The Alon Shaya Way

    If you really want to impress your Passover guests (or fellow seder-goers), whip up a big batch of fresh matzo at home. Trust us, you'll probably go through the whole thing before you've finished ticking off the plagues. We reached out to James Beard Award–winning chef Alon Shaya of New Orleans' renowned Domenica, Pizza Domenica, and modern Israeli…
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    Up Your Passover Dessert Game With This Matzo Toffee Crunch Recipe

    This recipe is part of Crispianity: a column devoted to all foods crispy and crunchy, two of the most underappreciated attributes of a great dish. Author Adeena Sussman is a food writer and recipe developer, pairing here with her photographer friend Evan Sung. Sussman’s most recent cookbook, coauthored with Lee Brian Schrager, is America's Best Breakfasts: Favorite Local Recipes…
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    Passover Time: Here's How To Make Brisket With Onions And Porcinis

    Jewish food isn't famous for being paleo, so let's fix that with The New Yiddish Kitchen, a collection of recipes from...not exactly Bubbe's kitchen. Cooks, writers and bloggers Jennifer Robins and Simone Miller teamed up to remind the world that braised brisket is a caveman's dream. Three onions may seem like a lot, but when…
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    Passover Makeover: How To Make Homemade Salmon Gefilte Fish

    Jewish food isn't famous for being paleo, so let's fix that with The New Yiddish Kitchen, a collection of recipes from...not exactly Bubbe's kitchen. Cooks, writers and bloggers Jennifer Robins and Simone Miller teamed up to slim down some of these beloved dishes for the modern Stone Age.  If there were ever a food that…
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    What Are Sufganiyot?

    Every culture seems to have its own version of the doughnut — and usually some fancy name for it, too. In Italy, fried dough is called bombolone or zeppole. In France (and the French Quarter of New Orleans), it goes by beignet.In Israel, doughnuts are known as sufganiyot. And like their fellow oil-cooked counterpart, the potato…
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    Make Dreidel More Delicious With Gourmet Hanukkah Gelt

    Every year as a kid, I counted down to our synagogue’s Hanukkah shindig, where I’d gorge on sufganiyot and latkes (that’s jelly donuts and potato pancakes for you goys out there). But Hanukkah lasts eight days. On the other days we’d hang out at home and play the dreidel game, with the winner getting a…
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    The Only Gluten-Free Bialy Recipe You Need

    There is one gluten-free baking bible out there: Against the Grain. You’ll never have to shell out eight bucks for a terrible loaf of frozen bread ever again. Bid farewell to the rubbery, flavorless, additive-filled gluten-free goods of yesteryear and embrace your diet with delicious, wholesome, home-baked favorites. These bialys are a labor of love worth taking…
  • Plan Your Passover Menu: 12 Side Dishes

    Passover, which begins on April 3, is almost here. And while we’re super-pumped about the prospect of brisket portions that would make any Bubbie proud, we’re going to need side dishes to back it all up. Whip up some homemade matzo and check out these 12 recipes for classics like kugel and haroset, plus welcome…
  • Fish Soup With Matzo Balls And Aioli Recipe

    Fish Soup With Matzo Balls And Aioli Recipe

    When it comes to the very best of kosher food and wine, look no further than renowned winemaker and cookbook author Jeff Morgan. Morgan’s new book, The Covenant Kitchen, features recipes he’s collected on his travels to Italy, Provence, North Africa, Asia, California and Israel. This is definitely the book in which you'll find your new favorite fish…
  • Lots Of Latkes: Our 10 Favorite Hanukkah Recipes

    Latkes! It's that time of year, and you know you want them. Whether you take yours with sour cream, applesauce or, well, something a little fancier, we've got 10 prime Hanukkah recipes for you, from those crisp potato patties that just won't quit to smoky beef borscht, meatballs and stuffed eggplant, make this food-friendly holiday…
  • At Long Last, A Hybrid Latke-Chicken Finger To Win Hanukkah!

    We're pretty crazy about the lineup at NYC's premier house of fried chicken strips, Sticky's Finger Joint. We've touted many of their 30+ daily flavors, including personal favorites buffalo balsamic maple and French onion crema fingers. In the spirit of "no holiday left behind," the chicken masters are rolling out their newest creation — a…
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    Jerusalem Kugel Recipe

    This is the first recipe in Crispianity: a column devoted to all foods crispy and crunchy, two of the most underappreciated attributes of a great dish. Author Adeena Sussman is a food writer and recipe developer, pairing here with her friend, photographer Evan Sung. Sussman's most recent cookbook, co-authored with Lee Brian Schrager, is Fried and True:…
  • Heads & Tails Cocktail Recipe

    Heads & Tails Cocktail Recipe

    Walking into Russ & Daughters, the world-famous appetizing shop operating since 1923 in Manhattan's Lower East Side, is an experience unlike any other. The glass cases are filled with everything from caviar to smoked fish to bagels and sweets. Their new café, located a few blocks from the shop, seamlessly bridges the old-world, neighborhood feel and delicious…
  • Plan Your Passover Menu: 12 Desserts

    Passover, which begins on April 14, is almost here. While it's not the most dessert-friendly holiday (flour that's not matzo is typically a no-no), you'll forget all about cookies and cake when you see...well, our cookies and cake. And mousses, soufflés and pavlovas. And sorbet. Basically, dessert is going to be fine. Check out these…