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100 Foods and Beyond


Check out Tablet’s book The 100 Most Jewish Foods: A Highly Debatable List, and learn the stories behind iconic Jewish dishes. Argue with your friends about what we left out. And if you get hungry, we’ve included 60 recipes, too. And then there’s more...


Play the Jewish Foods Memory Game with your kids. Match up doubles of chicken soup, or borscht, or kreplach, and work up their appetite in the process.


Or try the 500-piece 100 Foods circular puzzle, and set the perfect table filled with your favorite Jewish foods.


Or check out this sticker book, featuring the tastiest items from 100 Most Jewish Foods. Put your favorite stickers on your laptop, your notebook, or your refrigerator.


You can buy all the merchandise, plus The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, edited by the hosts of Tablet’s Unorthodox podcast, by clicking here.
Encyclopedia
schmaltz
The nectar of the gods: rendered chicken fat. You can spread it on bread, use it to roast potatoes, or, in keeping with tradition, use it to...
Feed Your Soul
Chicken soup is nourishing, as we know, not only for the stomach but also for the soul. No wonder it’s one of the most famous (and beloved) Jewish foods. But which recipe is the best? Late LA AIDS activist Mollie Pier made a classic version. Joan Nathan perfected traditional matzo ball soup. Or, if you want something spicy, try this Yemenite recipe. Heck, try them all!


The Doctor Is In
Joan Nathan mentions one of the people helped popularize shakshuka: Dr. Shakshuka, who operates a restaurant in the old city of Jaffa. You can read about Bino Gabso (the man behind the moniker), and how he refined his recipe in prison, in his Tablet interview.
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Keeping Kosher
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Percent of U.S. Jews who say they keep kosher in their home, according to Pew Research Center
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