Celebrate Sukkot abundance with this stuffed dessert challah By Faith Kramer Sep 17, 2021 Abundance and plenty are themes for Sukkot foods, and this Stuffed Dessert Challah has plenty of abundance. The golden bread is packed with nuts, raisins and chocolate, making it a sweet choice to enjoy inside the sukkah. Sukkot this year begins at sundown Sept. 20 and lasts for eight days in the diaspora, seven in… Read More
Small Bites Boichik Bagels secures warehouse for major expansion This week Emily Winston, founder and owner of Boichik Bagels, picked up the keys to an 18,000-sq.-ft.industrial building in North Berkeley. When the… By Alix Wall Sep 17, 2021
Small Bites More kosher 'pork'; Hummus comes to Ferry Building Obour Foods, a local hummus company that was featured in this column in November 2019, is opening its first store next month, inside the San Francisco… By Alix Wall Sep 14, 2021
Organic Epicure Her plant-based cookies are grounded in health and simplicity As soon as she was old enough to know what was on her plate, Lauren Chew didn’t want to eat animals. But it’s hard to be in control of those choices when… By Alix Wall Sep 9, 2021
Organic Epicure Jewish chef’s plant-based bacon ‘sizzles and bubbles’ like the real thing Not all chefs have slogans that they live by, but if chef Sam Lippman could choose one, it would be this: “You can make anything out of anything.” He… By Alix Wall Sep 3, 2021
Recipe Take your Rosh Hashanah menu to Marrakech and beyond When I was running Square One restaurant in San Francisco, I knew most of our regular diners pretty well, so they didn’t hesitate to come to me with menu… By Joyce Goldstein Sep 1, 2021
Organic Epicure South Bay blogger's new cookbook is full of Rosh Hashanah recipes Some day in the (hopefully) not too distant future, when talk turns to how productive or unproductive we were during Covid, Beth Lee will be able to best… By Alix Wall Aug 30, 2021
Small Bites New 'Jew-ish' deli coming to Napa; Jewish Argentine chef in SF A new Jewish deli concept is coming to Napa’s Oxbow Public Market from an unlikely source: Christopher Kostow, the three-starred Michelin chef of… By Alix Wall Aug 27, 2021
Small Bites East Coast vs. West Coast at Forward's virtual bagel panel The national Jewish publication the Forward teamed up with the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center of New York to host “The Great Bagel Off” on Aug. 24. Its… By Alix Wall Aug 25, 2021