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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

Jewish chefs

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
Naama Shefi, founder of the Jewish Food Society and Asif: Culinary Institute of Israel, enjoys a Shabbat picnic with friends and family, also included as a chapter in 'The Jewish Holiday Table' cookbook, by Shefi with Devra Ferst (Courtesy Penny De Los Santos)
April 18, 2024, 5:08 am
This Passover, two new cookbooks focus on Jewish holiday meals and family recipes
Naama Shefi’s ‘Jewish Holiday Table’ brings Jewish dishes and stories from around the world, while Micah Siva’s ‘Nosh’ offers a plant-based twist to traditional foods
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
Olivia Ostrow sits in the kitchen of her namesake Ostrow Brasserie, a kosher French restaurant in Miami. (Courtesy Salar A - Miami Creative Agency)
April 10, 2024, 9:26 pm
Chef serves up kosher French food off the beaten path in Miami
Olivia Ostrow dishes up duck confit, beef Bourguignon and truffle and artichoke risotto in a space where diners won’t have to fear running into their child’s Hebrew school teacher
By Sara Liss
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 and baker Rachel Raj. (Dániel Végel/ Boook Publishing)
December 16, 2020, 3:59 pm
Hungary’s pastry queen and ‘modern Yiddishe mama’ shares her life in the kitchen
Baker and chef Rachel Raj, hailed for her flodni — a popular Jewish confection beloved across the country — releases a new cookbook that’s an autobiography in recipes
By Yaakov Schwartz
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
Chef Max Malkiel at home in Berlin's Wilmersdorf neighborhood, January 2020. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
October 24, 2020, 9:10 am
From line cook to YouTube star, a Berlin chef dishes out his recipe for success
Max Malkiel’s homestyle cooking tutorials have earned him well over 100,000 subscribers across Israel, Russia and the US, but he claims his wife is the better cook
By Yaakov Schwartz
'Sababa' author Adeena Sussman, left, speaks with Times of Israel Culture & Lifestyle Editor Jessica Steinberg for the Behind the Headlines series, October 7, 2020. (Times of Israel)
October 8, 2020, 3:42 pm
WATCH: ‘Sababa’ author Adeena Sussman on how COVID started a challah revolution
Speaking with the ToI Community via Zoom, the NY Times top pick talks about her collaboration with Chrissy Teigen, Palestinian influence on Israeli food, and pandemic-era cooking
By ToI Staff
It takes 10 days for Rebecca King to brine the meat for her pork sandwiches. (Josefin Dolsten/ JTA)
September 4, 2020, 6:14 am
LA pop-up The Bad Jew specializes in treif takes on Jewish food
If selling pork-based deli sandwiches is wrong, rising Los Angeles-based culinary artist Rebecca King doesn’t want to be right — and her growing customer base would agree
By Josefin Dolsten
Amir Nathan, left, and Jordan Anderson have adapted their menu for the era of COVID-19. (Briana Balduci/ via JTA)
July 6, 2020, 8:00 am
Israeli-owned NYC Mediterranean takeout brand may be restaurant of the future
Named for an inclusive Arabic Israeli TV show from the ’60s and ’70s, Sami & Susu focuses on upscale comfort food that’s able to withstand a subway ride
By Gabe Friedman
Alon Shaya delivering hummus and pita to medical professionals as part of the @noladocproject. (Saba/ Facebook)
May 10, 2020, 12:55 am
Israeli celeb chef in New Orleans turns shuttered restaurants into soup kitchens
Unable to serve customers, Alon Shaya has transformed his two popular restaurants — Saba and Safta — into hubs giving free meals to health and furloughed food industry workers
By Rich Tenorio
Ellie Balouka is bringing in 'simple and delicious' meals, like this chicken salad sandwich, that don’t require reheating. (Courtesy of Balouka/ via JTA)
April 29, 2020, 10:41 pm
Paris chef provides free gourmet kosher meals to Jewish doctors and nurses
Learning that non-kosher restaurants were delivering free food but observant healthcare workers couldn’t eat it, caterer Ellie Balouka steps up to even the score
By Josefin Dolsten
An illustrative photo of shakshuka. (Adam DeTour/via JTA)
June 14, 2019, 2:44 am
Falafel truck becomes booming Boston-suburb Israeli restaurant
With aromatic Sephardic dishes from Israel, Turkey, North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 34-year-old Avi Shemtov hopes to share the story of the Jewish people’s global travels
By Penny Schwartz
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