New York—It is no secret that for hundreds, maybe even a thousand years, Jewish cooks have had an ongoing, unceasing chulent competition. Whether this typical Shabbos lunch competition took place in shtetlach in the old country, where families would swipe each others’ stewpots from the baker’s ovens on their way home from shul, or among our grandparents

(Vegetarian)

Makes at least a gallon. If you want to make it fleishig, add a pound of your favorite stew beef.

Throw the ingredients below into the biggest pot you own, minimum 5 quarts, and season to taste. Add sriracha if you like it hot.

2 large onions diced and browned

¼ cup chopped garlic from the jars

¼ cup of olive

Falling leaves and shorter days herald autumn. But to me, the most eloquent and inarguable proclamation comes from the smell of fresh sage in the kitchen. Add the richness of butternut squash, brown butter, hints of nutmeg, thyme and toasted almonds, and you have the makings of the perfect fall meal. This recipe for butternut squash pappardelle is a simple

What happens when something you’ve counted on for so long is no longer there to help you? Well, the piles of laundry begin to grow—literally. When our washing machine’s interior began smoking during a wash, I was annoyed. I still had three loads of laundry to do, how dare it break down? Then I was in denial; I’ll just let it rest for a while and maybe it’ll

Mainstream news will lead you to believe something diplomatic or political is the talk of the day in Israel. But for most Israelis the big news right now is whether a new cheap coffee chain that recently opened in the heart of Tel Aviv will spark a coffee revolution and bring down the prices at cafés around the country.

Entrepreneur Avi Katz—the guy who

Springfield, NJ—The ShopRite chain is considered to be one of the leading supermarket chains in the country when it comes to kosher. Its “Kosher Experience” was a trailblazer in the supermarket world. A neighboring store in Livingston includes plenty of kosher products on the shelves and in freezers and refrigerators. Yet according to the New Jersey Jewish

Secaucus—There are not that many places where you can see the world’s largest chicken nugget, sample kosher “ham,” and bite into a halachically permissible cheeseburger while drinking kosher spirits from various regions of the world. Welcome to Kosherfest. Celebrating its 25 ^thanniversary, Kosherfest brings together tried and true kosher products and

Leaving the city is not easy, especially just as everything else in your life is changing… but with our first baby on the way our “future” demanded a responsible plan and all young Manhattanites know that responsible planning at the home-buying stage usually means saying goodbye to the Upper West Side. Like many city-lovers, if we could have afforded it, we would

1 Order of Scallion Pancakes from Chopstix

3 Onions peeled and sliced

2 Flanken Bones (add as much MEAT as you love!!)

1/2 Cup of Barley

5 large potatoes, peeled and cut in to thirds

2 tablespoons of hoisen sauce (from scallion pancake order)

1 tablespoon of garlic powder

1 tablespoon of Honey

1 tablespoon

With all the cooking that we tend to do for Shabbosimand yom tovimand other celebratory occasions, there is bound to be leftovers. Some people cannot be bothered and they quickly throw them away. Others use every morsel that they can and become very creative. I, too, have a very hard time throwing away leftovers, so I try to use them in a

New York—Because of a quirk in the calendar, the first day of Chanukah this year falls on Thanksgivings Day, something that has not happened in many years and is not scheduled to happen again for 77,000+ years. What this means is that the customary promotions for the two holidays will merge this year. Look for the FSI’s to include turkey along with the

The writing is on the wall: fewer and fewer families are sitting down to a dinner table where beef is the featured entrée. Between concerns about high fat and cholesterol, and the growing evidence against aspects of factory farming, a large steak dinner raises more red flags than excitement. What to do when the craving calls for steak?

The solution: