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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

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Sharona Dahan cooks at Asif in Tel Aviv, in a rare respite from takeout nearly a year after being evacuated from her home in Sderot, October 2024. (Deborah Danan)
December 8, 2024, 9:46 am
For displaced Israelis, the kitchen becomes a symbol of hope, home, remembrance
At the Asif Culinary Institute through April, ‘The Open Kitchen: Memories From a Home Left Behind’ tells the stories of evacuees and the significance of the foods they hold dear
By Deborah Danan
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
'The Open Kitchen: Memories From a Home Left Behind,' a new exhibit at Asif Culinary Institute from September 2024 to mark one year since October 7. (Courtesy Asif)
September 30, 2024, 6:19 pm
Evacuees miss their kitchens, even dishwashing, in new exhibit
Tel Aviv food institute Asif helped people who lost their homes find comfort after the Hamas attacks, and now marks one year with new projects
By Jessica Steinberg
Sigal Chayak prepares a meal with her daughter Shani, in a host kitchen in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2024. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
February 18, 2024, 9:53 pm
Program pairs displaced Israelis with Tel Aviv kitchens to cook up some home comfort
Asif Culinary Institute of Israel brings evacuees from North and South to willing private homes for chance to prepare meals for their families
By AFP and ToI Staff
Shekoufeh 'Chicki' Elghanian, left, and volunteers at her Herzliya apartment, on December 28, 2023. (Gavriel Fiske/TOI)
January 13, 2024, 8:38 am
The Persian-Jewish grandma who wants to feed the entire IDF from her apartment
NYC-raised scion of one of Tehran’s most prominent Jewish families, 84-year-old ‘Chicki’ Elghanian makes 300 meals a day while praying for the destruction of the Iranian regime
By Gavriel Fiske
An undated photo of Marlena Spieler, who died July 6, 2023. (Roving Feast, Substack via JTA)
July 11, 2023, 7:16 pm
Marlena Spieler, traveling Jewish cookbook author, dies aged 74
US-born writer won numerous awards for her works; spent a year in Israel; said her mostly Yiddish-speaking grandparents ‘fled terrible things’ in Europe
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
An undated photo of excavation work at the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov site near the Jordan River in northern Israel. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)
November 14, 2022, 10:46 pm
Fish teeth found near Jordan River yield world’s earliest evidence of cooking
Israel-led team of researchers find that some 780,000 years ago, prehistoric humans used sophisticated methods to cook huge fish from Hula Lake, in what is now northern Israel
By Michael Bachner
Ori Zohar, left, and Ethan Frisch, right, are the founders of the single-origin spice company Burlap & Barrel. (Mark Mahaney/ via JTA)
February 4, 2022, 3:01 am
These modern-day Jewish spice merchants want to revolutionize the industry
Ori Zohar and Ethan Frisch, founders of Burlap & Barrel, are demystifying one of the least-known areas of the pantry by sourcing directly from farmers from Afghanistan to Guatemala
By Shira Hanau
Sami Tamimi in a London bakery he co-owns with Yotam Ottolenghi on December 18, 2012. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)
March 6, 2021, 3:14 am
‘Falastin’ cookbook opens Palestinian kitchen to home chefs
Jews around the world are avid consumers of this offering from Sami Tamimi, business partner to Yotam Ottolenghi, who spices his recipes with a sprinkling of politics
By Jessica Steinberg
Award winning Chef Michael Solomonov, left, works the oven and the line at his restaurant Zahav in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 14, 2015. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via JTA)
May 14, 2020, 4:04 pm
Solomonov, Nathan join first Great Big Jewish Food Fest online
Event on May 19-28 is free and consists of workshops, happy hours and Shabbat dinners with famous foodies
By Joe Baur
Mitchell Schwartz is having some fun, with food, off the gridiron. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images; Mitchell Schwartz/Instagram)
April 10, 2020, 7:47 am
Quarantined Jewish NFL star Mitch Schwartz embraces his inner chef
Holed up at home, the athlete has shared photos of many of his favorite recipes with his 79,000 Instagram followers
By Emily Burack
Food personality Shaily Lipa shows how to organize the fridge so that there is less wasted food Courtesy Shaily Lipa)
April 1, 2020, 12:26 pm
The coronavirus kitchen: What home cooks create during lockdown
More time plus more people at home is a recipe for culinary innovation. We grill some experts, who dish up some food for thought
By Jessica Steinberg
Master baker Uri Scheft in his 'Chef Mentor' video (Courtesy Chef Mentor)
November 20, 2019, 11:26 pm
Online cooking course aims to turn kitchen amateurs into culinary pros
Recently launched series ‘Chef Mentor,’ made up of 30-minute tutorial videos, features the best Israeli chefs teaching their specialties
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: Texas style brisket Tuesday, June 14, 2005, in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
August 19, 2019, 4:12 am
Any way you slice it, from delicatessen to BBQ smoker, this meat is a cut above
Culinary master Steven Raichlen’s new history-meets-cookbook, ‘The Brisket Chronicles,’ is a love affair with a carnivorous delicacy that’s as delicious as it is tough to perfect
By Rich Tenorio
Efrat Lichtenstadt preparing individual lemon curd and cheese desserts for her blog (Courtesy Efrat Lichtenstadt)
June 7, 2019, 10:20 am
The Jerusalem food blogger who turned a cooking hobby into a career
Efrat Lichtenstadt’s recipes, photos and stop-motion videos have become the trick of her trade, along with her savvy use of social media
By Jessica Steinberg
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