SLICE OF LIFE Red or green or black, I'm color blind in my love for grapes, those sweet, tangy, bursting with flavor fruits. While I'm not quite as fond of the ones with seeds, I welcome them at my fruit smorgasbord. Grapes are a perfect snack as they offer a great way to get manganese (vitamin B6), thiamin (vitamin B1),...
A TASTE OF ISRAEL Ask anyone if he or she has any particularly fond culinary memories of a trip to Israel. The respondent will probably not wax with nostalgia about the sushi bars or even the falafel but, rather, the famous Israeli breakfast. This smorgasbord -- whose origins stem from the do-it-yourself kibbutz breakfast of the past -- evolved into...
After 13 years at the helm of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Contemporary Art, Claudia Gould will become the next director of the 107-year-old Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She will replace Joan Rosenbaum, who is retiring after 30 years, and will assume the new role sometime this fall, the museum recently announced. Gould, 55,...
Sex and the (Sister) City? It's enough to have Carrie Bradshaw say a brachah. But this isn't Sex and the Siddur, either: What's coming to the Philly Fringe Festival is an edgy offering from Philadelphia's Sister City, Tel Aviv, putting a Smiley face on sexual sensitivity and sensibility that would shake Jane Austen to her core. Smiley (How About Some...
THE JEWISH KITCHEN When I read in a recent copy of the Forward about "Pickle-ness" being prevalent again on Manhattan's Lower East Side, I was intrigued. I thought that the immigrant cuisine in an area that had been home to millions of Jewish and other immigrants had totally disappeared. Not so. A new food-tasting tour organized by the Lower East...
Sivan 13, 5773
