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Modern Manna recipe / Date, walnut, and red wine charoset

A kosher for Passover variation on the Iraqi charoset of dates molasses and walnuts.

By Vered Guttman | Mar 19, 2013 | 03:05 PM

Making order of an Israeli-style fusion Passover seder
By Vered Guttman

Every family needs its own stuffed-something dish. Here's to Kubbeh

This Making Middle Eastern dumplings, kubbeh, takes less work than when one had to grind the grain on one's knees, and it's worth the effort.

By Vered Guttman | Feb 6, 2013 | 08:15 AM

Modern Manna Recipe / Pasta with cauliflower and a simple ricotta sauce

Based on a traditional Italian recipe, this dish is quick to prepare but requires patience as it roasts.

By Vered Guttman | Jan 29, 2013 | 11:13 AM

This Tu Bishvat, plant some chestnut and farro hamin in your belly

This dish was part of the Sephardi holiday table and usually included dates and figs, apricots, almonds and nuts.

By Vered Guttman | Jan 24, 2013 | 08:54 AM

A culinary Sephardic Jew reunites with her Ashkenazi roots

Stuffed cabbage in prune sauce; a contemporary version of an Ashkenazi winter recipe.

By Vered Guttman | Jan 16, 2013 | 12:32 PM | 2

Modern Manna recipe / Moroccan Carrot Salad

A classic Moroccan dish, with a little twist, using tamarind paste for extra intense flavor.

By Vered Guttman | Jan 8, 2013 | 09:34 AM

Modern Manna Recipe / Caramelized Parsnip in Balsamic Vinegar

Caramelizing the parsnip brings their natural sweetness to a whole new level. A dash of balsamic vinegar rounds the flavor.

By Vered Guttman | Jan 8, 2013 | 09:21 AM

Modern Manna recipe / Root vegetable salad on goat cheese crostini

Some of these vegetables are usually eaten cooked, but they're great raw, when sliced thinly enough.

By Vered Guttman | Jan 3, 2013 | 02:53 PM

Farro, wild mushroom and chestnut dressing.

Modern Manna recipe / Wild mushroom and chestnut farro dressing

Why should the chestnut belong only to Christmas? We celebrate Hanukkah every year while chestnuts are in season.

By Vered Guttman | Dec 14, 2012 | 09:13 AM

Hanukkah at Whole Foods: Organic treats for the festival of lights

While Safeway, Giant and even Trader Joe’s offered a somewhat conservative Hanukkah fare, Whole Foods showed a little more creativity

By Vered Guttman | Dec 14, 2012 | 09:05 AM

The complexity of Japanese kaiseki, now in Israel

The kaiseki meal of chef Aki Tamura, of the Minato restaurant in Herzliya, includes between seven and 12 courses, depending on the availability of the raw ingredients on any given day

By Ronit Vered | Dec 13, 2012 | 03:49 PM

Jewish World News

NYPD police vans in New York City’s Times Square.

New Yorker jailed in Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger's 1990 killing could be freed

By The Associated Press | 05:33 PM | 3

A nun holds a photograph of Pope Francis during a Thanksgiving Mass for the newly elected pope

Pope’s book co-authored with rabbi to be translated into English

By Reuters | 03:49 PM

U.S. appeals court hears 'Jerusalem is Israel' passport case

By JTA | 02:20 PM | 24

The Jewish Thinker

It’s time to end the slavery of narrow-mindedness

By Arie Hasit / Jewish World blogger | 12:06 PM

Forget the ultra-Orthodox; focus on settlers

By Joel Braunold / Jewish World blogger | 12:14 AM

Moderate rabbis are all around us, even in Israel

By Arie Hasit / Jewish World blogger, Emily Levy-Shochat | 02:45 PM | 9

Rabbis' Round Table

A Passover meter for measuring freedom

By Rabbi Micah Peltz / Jewish World blogger | 11:27 PM

The Jewish obligation to obliterate the glass ceiling on women

By Rabbi Elianna Yolkut / Jewish World blogger | 11:25 AM

Coffee, Haggadot, and Jewish assimilation

By Rabbi Joel Seltzer / Jewish World blogger | 11:58 AM