Jewish Archive

TRADITIONAL GEFILTE FISH FROM THE OLD COUNTRY

By Larry Levine - One of my most prized culinary possessions is a recipe for Gefilte Fish in my mother’s own handwriting. Mom made Gefilte Fish twice a year and served it as an appetizer for the Passover and Rosh Hashanah holiday dinners. A couple of weeks before the holiday, she would phone the fish [...]
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MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THESE / 12 memorable meals from the year gone by

By Larry Levine – “You’re lucky, eating so many great meals in great restaurants.” I hear statements like that frequently from people who assume I created a restaurant web site (atLarrys.com) and this online food magazine as an excuse to eat great meals in great restaurants. They have it backwards; the great meals in great [...]
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37 QUINTESSENTIAL RESTAURANTS FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA

By Larry Levine - What is the quintessential restaurant in San Francisco? How about Los Angeles? Sacramento? San Diego? New York? Chicago? Boston? We put those questions to the co-hosts of our sister web site – www.atLarrys.com, where we do restaurant recommendations – and quickly learned the answers get more complicated the more you think [...]
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BUT I STILL LOVE TO EAT – The journey back from the operating table to the dinner table / Chapter 4 / A Chicken Soup Disaster and the cardiologist who blessed a heart-healthy chicken soup recipe

By Larry Levine The full wisdom of my son Lloyd’s words about low vs. no fat/cholesterol/sodium (see Chapter Three) had not yet completely sunk in, when my sister Elisa came to visit two weeks after my quadruple coronary bypass surgery in July 2008. Elisa and I each took pride in our homemade chicken soup recipe, which [...]
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A FOOD LOVER’S JOURNEY / ZINGERMAN’S DELICATESSEN, ANN ARBOR, MICHGAN – It asks the question: when is a deli a deli?

By Larry Levine - (Number 3 in a series of articles - A FOOD LOVER’S JOURNEY.) As a place to find excellent Jewish rye bread, Zingerman’s sets a high standard. As a place to select from an impressive assortment of cheeses and a variety of specialty hams, Zingerman’s Delicatessen is worth a visit. But is Zingerman’s a true [...]
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FOOD BOOK REVIEW – “Save the Deli”

By Larry Levine - “Save the Deli” by David Sax tracks the history of Ashkenazi Jews – the plight they faced as they were chased around the globe, scapegoated, killed and survived for hundreds of years. And it is the story of the food they took with them and the delis they established to become [...]
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AND THE WINNERS ARE – Who is turning out great bagels?

By Larry Levine – So, who is turning out the best bagels of our time? It’s a tough one to test in a blind tasting because you want all the bagels to be same day fresh – just hours out of the oven if you can. I gathered 10 friends at our home one recent [...]
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BAGELS AREN’T JEWISH ANY MORE

By Larry Levine – What’s your favorite kind of bagel? Strawberry? Sun dried tomato? Pumpernickel? Garlic? Or are you more traditional? Plain? Onion? Sesame seed? One thing has become clear: Bagels are multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-national. Bagels aren’t Jewish any more. My awareness of this reality dawned in 1995, when I was interviewing a woman [...]
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MEMORIES OF FAMILY DINNERS GONE BY
MEMORIES OF FAMILY DINNERS GONE BY

By Larry Levine - There’ll be no house full of people for a holiday dinner once again this year. Those times and those memories are part of a very warmly recalled past. Tonight is the first night of Rosh Hashanah, and while our family has never been particularly observant, there was a time when we [...]
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