Jewish Life Manischewitz, cookbook author serve up two recipes By J. Correspondent Mar 19, 2010 Manischewitz has teamed up with acclaimed cookbook author and chef Sarah Lasry to offer two recipes for the Passover. “Many people find that creating an exciting Passover menu can be…
Art Kosher Baker does parve recipes with verve By J. Correspondent Nov 19, 2010 I love cookbooks and spend a lot of time with them. But there are just two kinds that make it onto my kitchen shelves: There’s the group that I go to for culinary history and food culture, and then…
Food Cook: Israel-China festival inspires bicultural recipes By Faith Kramer Jul 27, 2012 Local Israeli, Jewish and Chinese groups recently celebrated the conclusion of the Israel China Cultural Festival 2012 with a banquet featuring vegetarian Chinese specialties and Israeli wines and…
Food Cook | Special recipes for special dietary needs By Faith Kramer Oct 2, 2015 Throughout this holiday season I’ve been adapting recipes to take into account some of the special dietary needs of my guests. These gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, vegetarian dishes with a Jewish…
History Crisco and Jews: A story 4,000 years in the making By Rachel B. Gross Mar 2, 2020 “Crisco is Kosher,” home economist Marion Harris Neil wrote more than 100 years ago in “The Story of Crisco,” a recipe book published by Procter & Gamble. Rabbi Moses S. Margolies of New York,…
Recipe How about some ‘beer mitzvah’ food this Father’s Day? By Faith Kramer Jun 12, 2019 How about making it a hands-on Father’s Day this year — as in hand-held foods for dad and/or anyone else who likes to get their mitts on juicy barbecued chicken sandwiches, pastrami sliders and…
Art, recipes, assimilation tale fill kids Chanukah books By Lesley Pearl Nov 27, 1998 Let's face it -- there are only so many ways to tell the story of Chanukah. Two new ones in this year's batch of children's…
Plagued by Pesach Internet offers tips, recipes, insights By J. Correspondent Apr 7, 2000 A few weeks ago Jewish Webmasters were all scrambling to get their Purim sites up. This week, Passover pages are causing them sleepless nig…
Healthy fruits of Shavuot abound in online recipes By J. Correspondent May 30, 2003 Although it's customary to eat dairy foods on Shavuot, which begins Thursday evening, you may want to take a pass on some of the chol…
Food With recycling and recipes, I remember my grandmother By J. Correspondent May 16, 2008 My grandmother Margaret Bregman passed away last month. She died on her 90th birthday, the last day of Passover. My grandmother’s love found its way to everything from animals and children, to…
Local chef to share holiday recipes on TV By J. Correspondent Mar 5, 2010 Ed Schreiber, chef with Delicious Catering in San Rafael, will demonstrate how to cook Passover-friendly meals and share holiday traditions on KGO-TV’s “View from the Bay” at 3 p.m.…
Recipes to incorporate into your Rosh Hashanah seder By Faith Kramer Sep 16, 2011 Leek-Potato Patties Makes 8 patties 1 lb. Yukon gold or similar potatoes 1 Tbs. plus 2 Tbs. vegetable oil 2 cups chopped leeks, white and light green parts only 1⁄4 tsp. plus 1⁄4 tsp. salt 1⁄2…
Haroset recipes reflect wide range of Jewish cultures By Faith Kramer Mar 30, 2012 Perhaps no ritual food demonstrates the scope of the international Jewish experience as much as haroset, the seder plate staple said to symbolize the mortar used by Jews in Egypt to build the…
Food Cook | Indian recipes sound an old familiar beet By Faith Kramer Jan 3, 2014 What was the most unexpected ingredient I encountered on my recent trip to India? Beets, that Ashkenazi staple. Turns out the beet’s precursor grew along the Indian coastline. I’m not sure when…
Recipe Two spicy recipes to intensify your ‘Comfort Shabbat’ By Faith Kramer Aug 3, 2017 After the sadness of Tisha B’Av comes Shabbat Nachamu, or the Sabbath of Comforting. Named for the first words of the week’s Haftarah portion, which exhort Isaiah to comfort the people, it starts at…
Jewish Life Wining and dining: recipes from the Herzog kitchen By J. Correspondent Mar 31, 2006 Tierra Sur, the restaurant at the Herzog Wine Cellars in Oxnard, features an eclectic kosher menu that is part Mediterranean and part Cali…
Food Meat wont be missed in these tasty recipes By Louise Fiszer Jul 13, 2007 Once upon a time, the idea of inviting a vegetarian to dinner struck sheer terror in my omnivorous heart. I knew very little about a vegetarian’s diet except that they don’t eat meat. I…
U.S. Jewish cooking preserves heritage, as well as recipes By J. Correspondent Mar 26, 1999 "This is what her mother did. She died in the Holocaust," Nathan said during a recent interview in the kitchen of her Washington home. &…
Log onto Purim games, recipes, costumes for kids By J. Correspondent Mar 2, 2001 The month of Adar is already here and that means Purim is just around the corner. There is no holiday more geared toward kids (and the kid i…
Food Sometimes a recipes most important ingredient is love By Louise Fiszer Oct 1, 2010 On Yom Kippur, our rabbi presented a sermon with a strange focus for this particular holiday: food. Not just food for eating’s sake, but food as a vehicle to heal, to comfort, to convey caring,…
Food Cook: Memories lost and found in family recipes By Louise Fiszer Sep 13, 2012 As the Jewish year ends, I like to think about all the emails I’ve received from you, my readers. Most have been complimentary, some argumentative and others have been cute. I recently received this…
Food Cook | Lag BOmer recipes are rich in tradition By Faith Kramer Apr 26, 2013 Sunday, April 28 is Lag B’Omer, the 33rd day and a respite in the counting of the Omer, the period of semi-mourning between the second night of Passover and the night before Shavout, the giving of…
Rosh hashanah food | Kosher recipes for the holidays By J. Correspondent Aug 23, 2013 Looking for new kosher recipes for the New Year? The Manischewitz Recipe & Holiday Guide app is now available for download on Apple and Android devices. Notable chefs, cookbook authors and…
Bay Area Growing ‘Jewpanese’ identity comes through in new oral history project By Emma Goss Jul 12, 2022 Carmel Tanaka doesn’t like fractions. She eschews calling herself “half Jewish” or “half Japanese.” Rather, she uses the term “Jewpanese,” a word she first came across about 10 years ago. Born and…