Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
While Christmas tree lots empty and malls turn into theme parks, this holiday season has seemed to keep everybody on a festive high. While most kids around the world will be anticipating presents and cookies, I’m waiting in anticipation myself. No, not in hopes of getting goodies in a stocking or a thick slice of…
New York City has a lot to recommend it: shopping, people, sites. But one of the factors that I take for granted is the Jewish baking. Sally Minier was the food manager for Lehman Brothers before the financial collapse. Now, she runs the bakery Sweetsally’s. Using family recipes and cooking equipment inherited from her grandmother,…
If you’re familiar with my work you’ll know that in just about every meal that I eat I include “The Purple Cabbage Stuff” as a side dish. It’s that beautiful purple stuff on all the plates. See here or here. Well, this week I decided to try and make it all by myself. I looked…
I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve eaten liver in my life. The first time was when I had paté not knowing it was liver. The second time was at a holiday party where they served chopped liver. The third time was when my friend’s roommate’s girlfriend came over to cook…
The word on everyone’s mind lately seems to be Shakshouka. What is it? Check out the Wikipedia definition right here: Shakshouka (also shakshuka, shaqshuqa, chakchouka; Arabic: شكشوكة‎; Hebrew: שקשוקה‎) is a North African dish consisting of poached or fried eggs cooked in a sauce of tomatoes, peppers, onions, and spices (often including cumin, turmeric, and…
I was down in the shukh this week and I encountered what seemed to be a nest of alien eggs! Spindly, green, and round, they seemed to have come here from somewhere near Neo Nebulus Nine and were getting ready to hatch and begin phase two of an invasion of Earth. They were on sale…
Here I set out to explore and explain Israel’s numerous spices and flavors, but first I suspect I should set out to explain who I am. If I truly did that, we would all die of starvation (because I would never get to the food), so for now, I will just explain the basics. My…