OK, IT’S WINTER. LET’S TALK SOUP with a recipe for Norma Levine’s Homemade Chicken Soup
By Larry Levine – I went out to bring in the mail yesterday afternoon and it was cold. Sunny, but cold. I went out to bring in the newspapers from the driveway this morning and it was cold. The calendar still says autumn but it already feels like winter. Even here in... Read More
A TIME-TESTED BRISKET RECIPE FOR PASSOVER OR ANY OTHER DAY
By Larry Levine – There may be as many ways to bake a brisket as there are cooks preparing the meat for a Passover Dinner or any other time of year.. The one I’m sharing here is rooted in a very simple method used by my late mother. I doctored it through the... Read More
IS IT LOX, SMOKED SALMON, OR GRAVLAX? / let’s sort out the confusion
By Larry Levine – “Larry, please go to Abie’s and get a half pound of belly lox, sliced thin.” I heard those words often when we lived in Brooklyn, NY in the 1940s. It was my mother sending me around the corner to Abie’s appetizing store. They usually were... Read More
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE JEWISH TO LIKE BRISKET / and it doesn’t have to be Passover
By Larry Levine – You don’t have to be Jewish to like brisket and it doesn’t have to be Passover for you to eat brisket. But it wouldn’t hurt. It goes by many names: brisket, brisket of beef, baked brisket, and in barbecue joints everywhere it’s called Q. If... Read More
SOUP’S ON / Sweet & Sour Russian Cabbage Soup from Dad’s side of the family
By Larry Levine – Few things in the culinary realm offer as great an opportunity for creativity as soup. And there are few things more inviting or satisfying than a bowl or two of steaming hot soup during the cool autumn and winter months. Beef, chicken, fish, lamb,... Read More
THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS … OR DISAPPOINTS / Adine and Dan Forman introduce their kids to New York
By Adine Forman – How does one go about showing her children New York City in just seven days? Do you focus just on Manhattan? or Brooklyn? or Queens? Pick and choose a couple of the boroughs? There are so many famous and wonderful sights to show the kids. And... Read More
LATKES AND TURKEY/ a culinary convergence when Hanukkah meets Thanksgiving
By Larry Levine – Jews in American usually get to cash in on the holiday culinary sweepstakes at least twice at this time of year. For some, who yield to the Christmas avalanche, it can even be three times. We get Thanksgiving dinner; we get Hanukkah latkes; and then... Read More
TRAVELS WITH JENNIFER AND LARRY / Chapter 9 – Let’s Talk Deli, Part 2
By Larry Levine – It’s official – Jewish deli in New York is dead. Even though I knew the Manhattan deli world was in dire straits a decade ago, I held back on the final pronouncement until today. No, I haven’t tried every deli in the city, so I expect I will be... Read More
COMFORT FOOD ON CHILLED NIGHTS / Beef, Barley and Mushroom Soup from the old country – Number 2 in our Soup’s On series
By Larry Levine – Soups and stews are the ultimate stuff of comfort food on chilled autumn and winter nights. This recipe has been handed down through generations from my mother’s family. Mom made it frequently without a recipe. When I left the nest for life on... Read More
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