Leah Koenig’s Modern Jewish Cooking spoke to us. Not just because everybody’s Jewish on Passover and Rosh Hashanah, and all the other delicious celebratory (or reflective) Jewish holidays, but because while Leah is firmly rooted in tradition, she puts a contemporary spin on the classics. We love that. Every recipe is one that honors its […]
Food Notes
Explore the Piedmont Region of Italy with Faith Middleton
A Letter from Faith I’m excited about this announcement. I’ve decided to lead a food and wine lovers trip to Italy the week of September 19, 2016. If you’d like to get on our information list to get a taste of the remarkable experiences we’ll have, shoot an email to jmoore@cpbn.org. The Piedmont region of […]
The 20th Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival
Food and film go together in this year’s Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival. Some numbers for you: in their 20th year, the Hartford Jewish Film Festival celebrates 22 films over 10 days in 8 countries at 7 venues. Harriet Dobin, director of The 2016 Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival joined The Food Schmooze® […]
Recipe Roundup: Spring Tagine, Fruit Desserts & The Don Corleone Negroni
On this week’s Food Schmooze® special guests Carole Peck, chef and co-owner of Good News Café in Woodbury, and cookbook author Yossy Arefi share ideas and recipes for seasonal cooking. Faith swoons over black truffle potato chips (the guys still haven’t forgiven her for not saving a chip-crumb for them). And Anthony makes us a cocktail we could not refuse.
Fruit Desserts for Every Season. . .Sweet!
Food photographer, blogger, and now cookbook author, Yossy Arefi’s Sweeter off the Vine is a dessert go-to you’ll pull off the shelf season after season. And why wouldn’t you? You’ve got to have dessert, right? And fruit. And fruit desserts are good for you. Virtuous. Healthy. Or so we tell ourselves. Let’s just say this […]
World’s Most Extraordinary Potato Chips
Three days later, an open, empty bag still explodes with the swoon-worthy aroma of black truffles. What I bought as a lark, Torres Selecta Black Truffle premium potato chips, turn out to be, hands down, the best potato chips in the world. Made in Spain and distributed now to U.S. gourmet markets and through online […]
