Food and Things

Chef Renee Marton offers up this honey cake enriched with saffron for the Jewish New Year.
SAFFRON AND HONEY CAKE
From the land of milk and honey…
I contributed this recipe to a book called The Good Book Cookbook- Recipes from Biblical Times, by Goodman, Marcus and Woolhandler, (Dodd, Mead,  1986). I’ve re-written the recipe to [...]

September 9th, 2009 | Tags: dessert, Honey Cake, Jewish New Year, recipe, Rosh Hashanah | Category: Baking, Jewish Holiday Cooking, Jewish food, Rosh Hashanah, cakes, cooking, desserts, food, holidays, honey, recipes | Leave a comment

Looking for Rosh Hashanah cooking ideas? Check out this “Today” show video featuring Julie Negrin, director of the NewYork JCC culinary program. Negrin teaches Al Roker how to make challah for the Jewish New Year.
What’s challah taste like?  Just ask “Today” anchor Ann Curry.
“It tastes just like brioche, doesn’t it, really?”
Hmmm.

September 4th, 2009 | Tags: 10023, 10024, 10025, Al Roker, Ann Curry, challah, cooking, food, Jewish Community Center, jewish cooking, Jewish holidays, Jewish New Year, Julie Negrin, Manhattan, New York, Rosh Hashanah, Today Show, upper west side | Category: Breads, Jewish Holiday Cooking, Jewish food, Manhattan, New York City, Rosh Hashanah, cooking, food, holidays, recipes, upper west side | Leave a comment

Who can think of shtetl food like brisket and stuffed cabage when it’s 110 degrees in the shade?  But for Zabar’s, the venerable Jewish food emporium on Broadway, it’s apparently not too early to begin urging you to plan your New Year’s or Yom Kippur Break Fast menu.  So if cooking is not your thing [...]

August 20th, 2009 | Tags: 10024, 10025, 10026, food shops, High Holidays, holidays, Jewish food, Jewish holidays, Jewish New Year, Manhattan, New York, Rosh Hashanah, specialty stores, upper west side, Yom Kippur, Zabar's | Category: East End Long Island, Jewish Holiday Cooking, Jewish food, Manhattan, New York City, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur break fast, Zabar's, cheese, cooking, food, food markets, grocery stores, holidays, new york restaurants, upper west side | Comments (1)

If you’re a Sephardic Jew, you get to eat relatively healthy holiday fare on Rosh Hashanah. If you’re Ashkenazi, you have bloat and acid reflux to look forward to following your New Year’s meal.
But tradition is tradition. And if you want to include some elements that your Grandma might recognize, here’s a recipe for [...]

September 26th, 2008 | Category: Rosh Hashanah, Zabar's, upper west side | Leave a comment