More in ‘challah’

Purim starts Saturday night! Today in Tablet Magazine, we tell you everything you always wanted to know about Purim but were ever-so-slightly too bashful to ask. Cookbook author and contributing editor Joan Nathan discusses what mousakhan, a Palestinian baked chicken dish, means to her, before explaining how to make a delicious version along with Moroccan ...

A few weeks ago, I invited Alice Waters for Shabbat.
The legendary chef-owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, a longtime friend, was in town to work with me on a fundraiser for Martha’s Table and DC Central Kitchen, two organizations that feed the less fortunate in Washington, D.C., where I live. It seemed only natural to ...

Community-supported agriculture generally means farm-to-city deliveries of fresh produce. In Johanna Bronk’s case, it means locally grown grain for her fledgling challah baking and delivery service. The 23-year-old Massachusetts native moved to Brooklyn this fall to pursue a career in opera (a mezzo-soprano, she graduated from the conservatory at Oberlin College in the spring and ...

When I went away to college, I tried going to Hillel High Holiday services, but I really hated it…>>

Whenever I need a housewarming gift, I go to my local farmer’s market for two dozen crackling, salt-encrusted, handmade pretzels. It is my riff on a medieval custom still observed by Russians, Eastern Europeans, some Middle Easterners, and the Jews whose ancestors lived among them: bread and salt comprise the proper gift for anyone in ...