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The Six Kosher Food Groups of Jerusalem

Saturday, May 9. 2009

With thousands of observant Jews in Jerusalem, as well as even more halal Muslims, one of the most important assets a restaurant can have is a kashrut certificate. So important, in fact, that there's a substantial trade in ersatz certificates. Since we were visiting my brother, the rabbi, we looked for these a lot. Fortunately, unlike US clties, you can get a lot of really good food in Jerusalem eating kosher, and it doesn't even have to be expensive.

The major kosher food groups of Jerusalem are baked goods, bagels, yogurt, felafel, pizza, and (as of the 21st century) sushi. Having already covered the first, here's some notes (and pictures) about some of the others.

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Defined tags for this entry: bagel, felafel, food tourism, israel, jerusalem, jewish food, kosher, middle east

Parve Matzoh Ball Soup

Saturday, April 11. 2009

Since it's Easter Weekend, I'm making matzoh ball soup. Jewish food for this holiday is way better than the traditional American Christian food; I'll take matzoh ball soup, matzoh brei and gefilte fish any day over baked ham, boiled eggs and cigarette-smoking lamb cakes.

Mind you, Kris would like it if I made matzoh ball soup more often, but it's quite a time-consuming dish (and requires 3 pots), so she only gets it on Passover. And, of course, I prefer not to have the traditional chicken stock, so I make my own veggie stock. That's why this recipe is "parve", which means neither dairy nor meat.

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Bagels of New York

Sunday, March 2. 2008

Really, there is no more quinessetially New York food than the bagel. And New York is the place to eat bagels; you have to be really unlucky to get a bad one. Even the bagels sold by the corner pastry cart near the hotel are pretty good. This is in contrast to my home, San Francisco, where the average "bagel" is bread with a hole in the center (blame it on Noah's). In fact, the only decent bagels to be found in the city are from House of Bagels on Geary.

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Defined tags for this entry: bagel, food tourism, jewish food, manhattan, new york, sturgeon, whitefish

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