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Passover: Chozen Ice Cream-A Lighter Finish to that Heavy Seder Meal

Photo: Laura B. Weiss
Chozen Ice Cream, concocted by three New York women, with names and ingredients that tap into the shtetl/Jewish culinary tradition—from Matzoh Crunch to the newest flavor, Apples and Honey, is a great finish to your Seder meal. Let’s face it, Haroseth, pot roast and matzoh ball soup (hopefully, of the non-cannonball variety), [...]

Passover Recipe: Easy Italian-Ashkenazi Matzoh Ball Soup

Passover Italian-Ashkenazi Chicken-Matza Ball Soup
Italian matzoh ball soup??

This unusual recipe, combining the Sepharidic and Ashkenazi traditions—Italian and Ashkenazi Chicken-Matza Ball Soup—comes, says Chef Renee, from a wonderful cookbook called The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews, by Edda Servi Machlin, first published in 1981.
Explains Chef Renee Marton: “The recipe is a combination of Italian Passover [...]

In Time for Your Passover Seder: Rabbi Mints Sold on Upper West Side

What does it take for a Rabbi and an ad man and an entrepreneur to create a new product? Ad man Richard Kirshenbaum, entrepreneur David Mitchell and Rabbi Adam Mintz (get it???) of Congregation Rayim Ahuvim in New York City launched kosher Rabbi Mints March 21 just in time for the Passover season with its [...]

Upper West Side: Kosher Restaurant My Most Favorite Food Opens in Time for Passover

It seems strange that it’s taken until now for longtime kosher eatery My Most Favorite Food to set up an outpost on the Upper West Side. Regardless, the restaurant will be throwing open its doors March 25 at 247 W. 72nd Street just in time for Passover.
The eatery is counting on Upper West Siders of [...]

New Passover Cookbook Nominated for James Beard Award

Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Treasury of Classics and Improvisations, by Jayne Cohen, was just nominated for a James Beard Award.
Jane also offers table setting, wine and other seder tips in an article now appearing on Epicurious.