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Read more about the article A Brisket, a Tasket (What is a “tasket,” anyway?)

A Brisket, a Tasket (What is a “tasket,” anyway?)

  • Post author:Debbie Koenig
  • Post published:April 22, 2005
  • Post category:Books/Jew Food/Mains/Recipes
  • Post comments:1 Comment

On the great, long list of Jewish dishes worth losing a kidney for—kasha varnishkes, matzoh balls, potato kugel, kishke—one stands head and shoulders above the rest: Brisket. The traditional main…

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Smothered Chicken, Jewish Style

  • Post author:Debbie Koenig
  • Post published:January 2, 2005
  • Post category:Jew Food/Mains/My Story/Recipes
  • Post comments:0 Comments

When you’re one of four kids growing up in a three-bedroom apartment without much money, you find yourself taking turns a lot. My brothers and I took turns sitting in…

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Read more about the article Madeleines, Shmadeleines: Kasha Varnishkes

Madeleines, Shmadeleines: Kasha Varnishkes

  • Post author:Debbie Koenig
  • Post published:December 17, 2004
  • Post category:Jew Food/Nap-Friendly Recipes/Sides/Vegetarian
  • Post comments:3 Comments

“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more…

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Read more about the article Mushroom Barley Soup

Mushroom Barley Soup

  • Post author:Debbie Koenig
  • Post published:December 9, 2004
  • Post category:Jew Food/Nap-Friendly Recipes/Soup
  • Post comments:4 Comments

This is another recipe I grew up with, and when the weather turns cool it’s one of my favorite—and easiest—things to make. It’s from an English kosher cookbook, called The…

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Read more about the article Friday Afternoons

Friday Afternoons

  • Post author:Debbie Koenig
  • Post published:December 7, 2004
  • Post category:Baking/Bread/Jew Food/My Story
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What’s that you say—today is Tuesday, not Friday? Well I know that, silly. This is another one of those memory pieces, in which I wax rhapsodic about a food I…

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