Food & Dining

Inside Bubbe’s Kitchen: Harriet’s Vegetarian Chopped Liver

Harriet Stein Ingredients 1 cup minced celery 1 cup minced onion 1/4 cup vegetable oil 4 hard-boiled eggs 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts salt or 1 envelope G Washington Golden...

Inside Bubbe’s Kitchen: Pancakes

Murray Bloom The proportions are exactly as Bubbe told them to me. Instructions/Ingredients Put some flour in a bowl. Add a little sugar. Add a bissel baking powder. Add...

Inside Bubbe’s Kitchen: Nonna Donna’s Spicy Asian Turkey Soup

Barry Hertzberg Ingredients 32 oz vegetable stock 32 oz water Two large turkey thighs Teaspoon of Chinese five-spice mix Chopped carrots, 4 or 5 large ones Chopped celery (4 stalks) One bunch...

Kosher Wine’s Power Brokers: The Distributors Defining the Market

Jules Polonetsky In the wine market, importers and distributors play a pivotal yet often invisible role, shaping tastes, introducing trends and determining which bottles reach...

Great Aunt Pauline’s Noodle Kugel

Frances Gratch This is my father’s aunt’s recipe. The original recipe was double this and directed you to mix in a roasting pan. For a 9...

Banana-Chocolate Chip Cake

Susan Tepel Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together in large bowl. (I use a potato masher.) 1 stick butter (soften 15 seconds in microwave) 1 1/4 cups...

Navigating Kosher Bordeaux with Zev Steinberg

Jules Polonetsky I recently caught up with Zev Steinberg, a wine expert who has been one of my guides to understanding kosher wine. Steinberg decries being...

Parve Banana Bread (More Like a Cake)

Susan Rosenbluth Ingredients: 1/2 cup parve low-fat margarine 1 1/2 cups sugar 3-4 medium bananas, mashed 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 cup parve milk 2 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp...

Cheese Kreplach

This is the recipe of Bessie Sernoff that was passed down to her daughter-in-law, Bella Meritz Sernoff. Dough: 1 egg 1 1/2 cups of flour 1/4 tsp salt 1/4...

Kamish Parve

Ingredients: 1 cup sugar 3 eggs 1 cup oil 2 dashes salt 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 cup chopped walnuts 1 cup chocolate chips 3 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder Cocoa powder Cinnamon sugar Directions: Stir...