Frum Feeding Frenzies by Chaya Miriam Fried Jews clearly have a something attached to their Jew Gene that makes them lose their minds whenever they see a table of food. I don’t think there’s any real mystery to how this…
Tag: food
Shalosh Seuda doesn’t have to suck
The shaloshudos (the third meal, aka seudat shlishit for the Hebrew inclined) of my youth was finely a pretty gross affair, ice cream scoops of mass produced, aged, tuna fish and egg salad. Dry egg challah rolls that were rarely…
Is it kosher? Uh, it’s not recommended
I found myself faced with an incredible challenge yesterday, it was a lull at work and the chef offered to pay for starbucks if I’d drive. I wish she would have said “lets get something at starbucks” and not offered…
My first year making Pesach: My first year not craving any chometz
For the first time in my life I wasn’t craving chometz the entire pesach, this was also the first pesach that I “made”. Usually I go away for pesach and for the last couple of pesach’s I lived in places…
Everybody suddenly loves Quinoa on Pesach
Quinoa sucks and I’m sure most of you would agree, if it didn’t suck you’d have people eating it as is, like they do with rice, but instead quinoa is usually dressed up with all sorts of things to mask…
I heard you found kosher cheese at…
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw large bags of kosher and cholov yisroel cheese at Smart and Final last week, I myself am not a fan of shredded mozzarella or cheddar, but I knew plenty of people who…
The great kugel debate: Is it cake or kugel?
Since food is one of the most important aspects of the frum community, it’s no wonder that the great kugel vs. cake debate is alive and well in many parts of the frum community. In the mid 90’s, the latest…
The milchigs on shabbos conundrum
Background story: I hate to admit it, but the frum Jews on the West Coast don’t really know how to practice real frumkeit. They have created this hybrid based on their little exposure to Chabad, local community kollel rabbis and…
30 course tasting menu with 15 wines: Gluttony or Kedusha?
Every once in a while you hear complaints about materialism in the frum media, it usually has to do with lavish yeshiva fundraising banquets, expensive pesach hotels in Hawaii and those marble columns that your neighbor in Monsey decided to…
Using my expert mooching skills for good
If there’s one thing I’m good at life, it’s getting shabbos meals, break-fast meals, shabbos leftovers, places to sleep in far flung towns and a variety of other freebees given to frum Jews who know how to mooch. I’m not…
21 necessary evils of the frum community
They say that government and taxes are two necessary evils whether we like it or not. The frum community also has a lot of necessary evils and I just wanted to touch upon a few of them today. I’m sure…
You know you’re from out of town if…
In the frum world, Out of Town or OOT for short is generally considered anyone who lives outside of the New York metro area. Not only is it a term to mark geographic location, it is generally used in the…
Are you a JFK-Jew (just for kiddush)
I’m not sure popular the term JFK-Jew is but it means Just For Kiddush. For the record I have never been a Just for Kiddush kind of guy, unless you count the kavannah of having in mind that I’m only…
What’s the best kosher restaurant in New York?
I would hesitate to call myself a foodie, but being in the profession for a couple years now I’ve definitely an appreciation for good food and wine. The truth is, I haven’t had the chance to eat out much, I’m…
Bais Yaakov cookbook review
For those of you who don’t know, Bais Yaakov just came out with a beautiful 380 page gourmet cookbook. Being a professional cook with a lifelong obsession with Bais Yaakov girls I deemed the publishing of this much needed cookbook…
Chesed Week: Make skittles kosher
While there may be wars on foreign shores, rioting in England and the world economy is collapsing, we have more pressing matters here at home, like the campaign to make skittles kosher. Skittles bring back fond memories, to me it;s…
Chesed Week: Shabbat.com
Until a few years ago, I didn’t realize that most people didn’t have the skills or know how to invite themselves over for a shabbos meal. I had always figured that if you grew up frum, hooking up shabbos invites…
Dreaming of a heimishe kiddush
Every once in a while I actually remember my dreams, rarely do I have great ones, but this past Friday night I dreamed of kiddush. Not only did I dream of kiddush, I dreamed of the ideal yeshivish/hemishe/chassidish shteeble style…
You say you’re conservative, but you’re pretty frum!
Like most folks who grew up in a frum environment I had very little exposure to other non-“orthodox” streams of Judaism. The entire extended family on my fathers side is frum all the way back, so I never had any…
Baal Teshuvas love bacon
One of my favorite pastimes is getting baalei teshuva to talk about the forbidden things of their former lives that they miss so much and rarely does anything elicit the same response as talking about food, specifically bacon.
Who has the best kosher pizza in New York?
Starting a discussion on the best kosher pizza anywhere is a dangerous act, I one time asked my facebook friends where the best kosher pizza in Los Angeles was and an all out pizza war ensued. Everyone started attacking people…
The masochistic foodie in me
My stomach is growling, I can totally sit here on the gravel parking lot and eat a can of chili as a marvel at my mud speckled legs and just relax, but I’m in Napa and I want to eat…
Is work supposed to be this fun?
I’m not sure I’m supposed to be having this much fun at work, the ticket machine doesn’t seem to be stopping and in the zone. I’m sautéing 4 pans at once, I have the sides for 5 Ahi in one,…
I kind of fell into it
I always wondered about people who worked really cool jobs who said they kind of “fell into it” how do you fall into being a condom tester, truck driver or those guys who drive around the baggage carts on the…
Hazon: You know it’s crunchy when I’m the cleanest dude there
I had the pleasure of attending the Hazon Food Conference this past weekend near Petaluma and I’m sure all of you want to hear about the far left Jewish environmental movement, because it sure was funny, especially when you consider…