June 29, 2015
12:27 pm

Two delicious Jewish Care Bake Day recipes!

The Great Jewish Bake Day is on Wednesday. To get you in the baking mood to help Jewish Care raise even more money for its third bake-off, we’re dishing up two delicious recipes! What will you make and will you win the bake-off? Norma’s Brilliant Banana Loaf Norma has shared this recipe, which she says is […]

June 25, 2015
9:55 am

The chosen ones: Restaurant industry is brimming with Jewish talent

It’s not just kosher restaurants that have Jews at the helm – the restaurant industry is brimming with Jewish talent. Louisa Shulman tucks in… If summer has you longing for al fresco dining at the water’s edge, The Waterway and The Summerhouse in Little Venice are right up your canal. I’ve long been a fan […]

June 21, 2015
9:00 am

Masterclass at Mahiki! JN visits London’s most exclusive cocktail bar

Feel like a Zombie some days, but a Tonga Twist on others? Then you’ll feel right at home at London’s most exclusive cocktail bar, as Jack Mendel did on a Jewish News staff outing. When Prince William fancies a cocktail, there isn’t a watering hole in the capital that isn’t ready to shake and stir at his […]

By Jack Mendel

May 13, 2015
3:01 pm

#InternationalHummusDay: Ottolenghi on the Middle Eastern Hummus war!

Israeli and Palestinian chefs reflected upon on the role of Hummus in the Middle East, as we observe annual #InternationalHummusDay. The clip from 2012 reveals how Israeli chef, Yotam Ottolenghi, and Palestinian chef, Sami Tamimi. view the region’s favourite dish. They discuss ‘ownership’ of the dish, and how it is intertwined with Israeli and Palestinian culinary […]

April 7, 2015
5:05 pm

Desserts with a social mission: Antonio Russo

By Alex Galbinski When at the home of some friends David Russell first tasted a version of the iced dessert that he was later to go on to sell, he was stunned. “After the traditional chicken Friday night dinner, they served a dessert and initially I thought they had made a mistake in serving a […]

By Alex Galbinski

April 2, 2015
9:59 am

Meet the Jewish contestant on TONIGHT’s Masterchef !

As if being a mother of four and managing a luxury travel business was not enough, Emma Spitzer is also a contestant on the new series of MasterChef. Suzanne Baum chats to the 40-year-old about juggling family life and work with competing on Britain’s much-loved cookery show… The ultimate goal, I presume, of anyone entering […]

April 1, 2015
3:26 pm

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Cooking with Denise! Cake-a-maker – Four Pesach deserts you must try!

Good planning is essential for all organised chefs, and Passover preparation is no exception, argues Denise Phillips. Stock up on basic ingredients such as vanilla sugar, potato flour, cake meal, chocolate, dried fruit, nuts and plenty of eggs. Keep in mind, too, that Pesach desserts tend to be quite sweet, so you could reduce the […]

April 1, 2015
2:48 pm

Delicious Pesach recipes: Cherry chocolate fingers and vegetable strudel

Food writer, recipe columnist and Daily Mail blogger Anne Shooter grew up with many wonderful scents filling her family’s kitchen in Romford, including figs, almonds, honey, pomegranates, cinnamon and citrus. The author of baking book, Sesame & Spice, Anne spends the first seder night with about 40 other people at her parents’ home, where a new […]

April 1, 2015
1:57 pm

A communal seder this Pesach will offer a warm welcome at home or abroad

Don’t even think about being alone for Pesach, as Debra Barnes has a list of pop-up seders offering a warm welcome Back in the day, Jews spent the first seder night at the nearest Temple. Hosting a get-together in a billowing tent or a blustery cave just wasn’t an option back then, regardless of how […]

March 10, 2015
4:02 pm

A sobering experience: Cumbria’s whisky, for the perfect kiddish

Whisky lover Stuart Brodkin heads to Cumbria to drink in one of England’s newest distilleries A kiddush without a whisky is a bit like a football match without a goal – you might enjoy it, but you probably won’t. Personally, I find a glass (or two) of Scotch helps me relax after a hard day […]

March 3, 2015
2:02 pm

Global galloping gourmet: Secret recipes from top kosher restaurants

If you’re the sort of person who books their holiday around food, you will probably enjoy reading Secret Restaurant Recipes From The World’s Top Kosher Restaurants by Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek, says Alex Galbinski How many times have you eaten a meal in a restaurant and wished you could eat the same thing at […]

By Alex Galbinski

January 22, 2015
4:11 pm

Gena Turgel’s apple cinnamon strudel – SPECIAL Recipe of the week

One of our guest editors, Gena Turgel, shares with Jewish News readers her family recipe for apple and cinnamon strudel. Her mother made it when they lived in the Polish town of Krakow before the war. “Practice makes perfect,” she says. “Friends have tried to copy it over the years, but they never get it […]

December 22, 2014
1:47 pm

Cooking up a treat at Chanukah! Meet the country’s most creative bakers..

With Chanukah here, there’s no better time to get baking! Suzanne Baum gets a rise out of the latest recipe books by some of the country’s most creative caterers.. As a mother-of-three, professional cook Fabienne Viner-Luzzato knows exactly what appeals to young children when it comes to getting them interested in cooking. Her new book, […]

December 22, 2014
1:15 pm

Chanukah means candles… and cholesterol

Andrew Phillips reflects on what Chanukah means to him… When I was 10, I certainly didn’t fast on Yom Kippur, and Rosh Hashanah and Pesach were a blur of family, synagogue and long dinners. But Chanukah meant one thing – and that was gifts. And then I grew up. This is always a sad time […]

November 26, 2014
3:41 pm

How Jewish food and charitable causes have combined this winter

Louisa Walters discovers a new meaning to comfort eating… It’s A fact: Jews like to eat. Equally true is that Jews like to do their bit for good causes. Small wonder, then, that combining the two elements attracts more interest than the average fund-raising event and, spurred on by a chalish, several charities are running food-related […]

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