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A family seen during the Passover Seder on the first night of the 8-day long Jewish holiday, in Moshav Yashresh on March 27, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
March 30, 2026, 9:31 am
Three top Israeli chefs share their winning wartime Passover shortcuts
Ruhama Shitrit, Adeena Sussman and Shalom Simcha Elbert say goals for this holiday under fire should be ‘tasty food that’s also simple, and to keep our traditions’
By Jessica Steinberg
Ina Garten appears at the 28th annual Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on May 13, 2024, in New York. Garten released a memoir, 'Be Ready When the Luck Happens.' (Photo by CJ Rivera/Invision/AP, File)
October 10, 2024, 4:46 am
In long-awaited memoir, star chef Ina Garten opens up about her abusive Jewish parents
The cookbook writer and TV personality is now a household name, but she discusses her painful childhood for the first time in her new biography, ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens’
By Rachel Ringler
Zeev 'Shoshke' Engelmayer (left) and chef Yisrael Aharoni at a new Anu pop-up exhibit on September 5, 2024 (Itai Sliktar)
September 8, 2024, 5:22 pm
Chef jackets become art at pop-up exhibit benefiting the displaced
Illustrators and chefs are paired in ‘Three Spoons of Oil and Two Brushes,’ a weeklong event at Tel Aviv’s ANU – Museum of the Jewish People
By Jessica Steinberg
Food writer Joan Nathan making gefilte fish in her kitchen at Passover (Courtesy of Nathan family collection)
April 17, 2024, 5:17 am
Food writer Joan Nathan’s life and recipes combine in new hybrid cookbook-memoir
‘My Life in Recipes, Food, Family, and Memories’ is the author’s most personal work yet, a reflection on her 80 years
By Jessica Steinberg
Sisters Aliya Fastman (left) and Shaendl Davis of Citrus & Salt, Tel Aviv cooking workshop that partnered with World Central Kitchen to feed those in need during the 2023 Israel-Hamas War (Courtesy)
November 14, 2023, 5:44 pm
The way to their hearts: Volunteers cook for soldiers and wartime needy
Tel Aviv cooking workshop partners with World Central Kitchen, Asif Culinary Institute pivots to soldiers, and one-man show Rob King of BBQ smokes meat for troops
By Jessica Steinberg
Making food for soldiers, southern evacuees and anyone who needs it at Ofaimme in Jerusalem, October 10, 2023 (Courtesy Offaime)
October 15, 2023, 1:27 am
In order to cook for tens of thousands, Tel Aviv restaurants kasher their kitchens
At least 100 restaurants in Tel Aviv combine forces to cook nourishing food for soldiers, hospitalized patients and evacuees from south, along with similar effort elsewhere
By Jessica Steinberg
Performing at Apollonia Park during Sukkot 2023 (Courtesy Mano Grinspan)
September 29, 2023, 4:32 pm
Outside of the sukkah, festivals of every kind abound in Israel
An array of musical, theatrical, artistic, culinary and historical events livens up the country during Sukkot 5784
By Jessica Steinberg
Stylist Nurit Kariv sets this table with pieces from Nu, her home brand collection that includes a tablecloth designed with her own watercolors (Courtesy Nu)
September 7, 2023, 2:46 pm
This food stylist sets the table according to her clients’ personalities
Working with artisans to create ceramics and table linens for clients, Nurit Kariv launched Nu, her own home brand
By Jessica Steinberg
Michael Ginor (Youtube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 11, 2022, 6:03 am
NY-based Jewish chef, foie gras maker dies during Iron Man competition in Israel
Michael Ginor, a co-founder of Hudson Valley Foie Gras and restaurateur on Long Island, was born in the US to Israeli parents and served in the IDF
By ToI Staff
Waiting for dinner on a hot August night at Mashav Food Trucks, off Route 1 outside Jerusalem (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
September 14, 2022, 4:31 pm
Food trucks are driving Israel’s latest restaurant trend
With burgers, taco bowls and artisanal pizzas, Israeli chefs and entrepreneurs are serving up dinner (and lunch) al fresco
By Jessica Steinberg
The deli and cafe at Asif, Tel Aviv's culinary center housed in Start-Up Nation Central. (Courtesy: Asif)
January 8, 2022, 12:28 pm
Ingathering of the victuals: Israeli cuisine from all over gets a home in Tel Aviv
Part restaurant, part research institute, part incubator and part archive, the Asif culinary library gathers people along with food
By Jessica Steinberg
Ines Chattas, the new culinary director at UN Plaza Grill in Manhattan, with some of the dishes she has added to spice up the menu: beef potstickers (left) and crispy seared branzino. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
January 4, 2022, 3:42 am
She wants to take the upscale kosher restaurant UN Plaza Grill to the next level
Argentinian-born, Miami-based Ines Chattas is bringing her over 20 years of hospitality experience to the Big Apple, along with a culinary heritage spanning from Germany to Syria
By Rachel Ringler
Chef Michael Solomonov during a recent visit to Israel. (Courtesy Michael Solomonov)
January 30, 2021, 8:27 am
With Israel closed, a chef fills cravings through its food
Award-winning Philadelphia restauranteur Michael Solomonov is hosting ‘Bringing Israel Home,’ a free digital series with Israeli guests and home-cooked dishes
By Jessica Steinberg
Celebrity chef Pati Jinich in the kitchen at a pecan hacienda, or farm, in the Mexican state of Sonora. (Courtesy Jinich)
December 11, 2020, 10:05 pm
TV chef brings Mexican latkes and jalapeno matzah ball soup north of border
Pati Jinich boasts a rich culinary heritage from grandparents who fled to Mexico after the Holocaust, and uses it to educate Americans — from the small screen to the White House
By Rich Tenorio
Jenn Louis's mother's chicken soup, titled 'Isabel's Soup,' in her latest cookbook, 'The Chicken Soup Manifesto' (Courtesy Ed Anderson and George Dolese)
November 13, 2020, 9:41 am
New cookbook offers the ultimate elixir: Chicken soups from around the globe
Egg yolks, eggplant, yogurt and peanut butter are just some of the ingredients noted in ‘The Chicken Soup Manifesto’ that make for a wild variety of a very traditional dish
By Jessica Steinberg
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