Some recipes simply remind you of home. One bite of my mother’s challah, kugel, or cake and I am instantly back in Brooklyn, sitting in my mom’s kitchen watching her prep for Shabbat. Growing up, my ...

Adzuki (aduki) beans are small red beans that originated in the Far East. They are one of my favorite beans as they are both delicious and cook relatively quickly. Adzuki beans need as little as forty ...

I’ve never visited my ancestral hometown. Mashad is located at the north-eastern part of Iran. It is a holy site for Shi’ite Muslims, a famous destination for pilgrims who visit the golden shrine of ...

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As October becomes November the Cancer Awareness society moves their focus from Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October) to Lung and Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month (November). While the Breast ...

Thursday evenings are meal prep nights for Elisa Gurevich. Last week, the co-director of Chabad House at UCLA set a large stainless-steel bowl filled with bread dough onto a long wooden table in her ...

(RNS) — With her latest book, she turns back to her roots in a Modern Orthodox home where her mother cooked dishes typical of the Ashkenazi tradition. (RNS) — Ashkenazi food, the kind prepared by Jews ...

Tel Aviv cook Adeena Sussman offers this very appealing chicken thigh dish, baked with figs and grapes, in her book, "Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from my Table to Yours." She leaves fresh figs whole ...