Global Charoset Recipes for Your Seder Table
Last year, I wrote about how to prepare for Pesach with less stress. You can read that here to get yourself started and then enjoy this year’s article about charosets. […]
March 20, 2026
February 4, 2026
BernBaum’s: A New Cookbook Brings Fargo’s Beloved Nordic-Jewish Deli Back to Life
As a Jew-by-choice who identifies strongly with my Finnish heritage, it often feels like my identities are two non-overlapping circles: the Jewish part and the Finnish-American part. Although there is […]
February 2, 2026
Who The Folk?! David Fhima
When it comes to the types of restaurants he wants to open, Chef David Fhima leans heavily on where he came from. Born in the one-time French colony of Morocco […]
January 8, 2026
Rediscovering Jewish Roots Through Dobre Dobre
It was a Monday morning in May 2018. I had just moved to Warsaw, Poland for a four-month fellowship and was headed to the train station for my first day […]
October 24, 2025
Gursha Brings the Story of Ethiopian Jews to the Table
Around me, I hear a horn blow followed by the sounds of drums beating. Then, suddenly I see a stream of people, dressed in white clothes, walking together in a […]
July 14, 2025
Preserving Jewish History One Dessert at A Time
Last year, during a visit to the Jewish archives in my hometown of Pittsburgh, I was excited to find a copy of the 1982 community cookbook “The Best of Beth […]
June 9, 2025
Who The Folk?! Jared Kaufman
As a food writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Jared Kaufman merges two of his passions: journalism and food. But those two things just scratch the surface of his […]
May 28, 2025
Fondue for Shavuot
Classic Cheese Fondue & Chocolate Fondue Shavuot, which begins Sunday evening, June 1, is the second of our three pilgrimage holidays – Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot. It comes seven weeks […]
April 1, 2025
Foody Fun Pesach
The minute Purim is over, I start thinking about Passover. Who am I kidding? I start thinking about Pesach right after Tu b’Shvat, but I try not to DO anything […]
March 11, 2025
Purim – It’s Not What it Seems
Like Tu b’Shvat, which I wrote about last month, Purim also suffers from the image of being a pediatric holiday. Purim is fun. We give and get gifts of food, […]