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Best Israeli Eatery in N.Y.C. Comes From This Gifted non-Israeli Chef

Brooklyn-born chef Ayesha Nurdjaja has created two popular restaurants inspired by visits to Israel. With 'Not Your Average Hummus' and 'shawarma spiced fries,' she’s winning over diners and critics alike Brooklyn-born chef Ayesha Nurdjaja has created two popular restaurants inspired by visits to Israel. With 'Not Your Average Hummus' and 'shawarma spiced fries,' she’s winning over diners and critics alike

The Women Behind Israel's Budding Bedouin Food Scene

Some of the Most Interesting Beers in Israel Are Made in This Desert Kibbutz

Latest Recipes

How to Make Hanukkah Potato Latkes, Swiss-style (Recipe and Video)

How to Make a Hanukkah Sambousak (Iraqi Chickpea Turnovers) How to Make a Hanukkah Sambousak (Iraqi Chickpea Turnovers) – Recipe

Hanukkah Donuts Have Never Been So Fun - Sufganiyot in Shapes Hanukkah Donuts Have Never Been So Fun - Sufganiyot in Shapes (Video Recipe)

Over 40 Recipes for a Sweet, Stress-free Rosh Hashanah

Red and Golden Beet Tzimmes for Rosh Hashanah: New Take on a Classic Holiday Recipe Red and Golden Beet Tzimmes for Rosh Hashanah: A New Take on a Classic Holiday Recipe

Apple and Honey Cake Recipe for Rosh Hashanah

Prune and Red Wine Brisket for Rosh Hashanah or Passover (Recipe)

A Festive Date and Honey Cake for Rosh Hashanah (Recipe)

Chocolate and Honey Dessert Recipe: 3 New Twists on Rosh Hashanah Traditions

Vegetarian and Meat Couscous Recipe: A Rosh Hashanah Tradition Since Roman Times

More Food

Farah Raslan serves up a kaak knafe.

The Sticky and Sweet Lebanese Dessert in Pretzel Has Made It to Israel

The Arazis hosting.

The Israeli New Yorkers Trying to Turn Matbucha Into the New Hummus

An unfussy eater after catching a wild salmon.

How Do You Like Your Salmon? Uninformative, Please

Fadi Kattan.

A Palestinian Chef's Restaurant Closed Due to COVID. So He Became a Food Influencer Palestinian Chef Fadi Kattan's Restaurant Closed Due to COVID. So He Became a Food Influencer

The Yavneh egg, pre-accident

The Oldest Foods Still Eaten Today, After Thousands of Years

A village on the Afghan side of the Panji River. Visitors in Tajikistan, across the way, can get a glimpse of the locales that have been recently conquered by the Taliban.

A Visit to the Tajik-Afghan Border, Where Time Stands Still

Impossible Foods has unveiled its latest plant-based meat product: Impossible Pork.

Kosher 'Pork' Is Hitting the Shelves. Well, Not if You Ask the Rabbinate

Traditional chicken soup

A Brief History of Chicken Soup, the ‘Jewish Penicillin’

Poppy seed and walnut kugel.

Start and End the Yom Kippur Fast With Tradition: Two Kugel Recipes

Grape and sour plum sherbet.

This Delicious Drink Is a Bygone post-Yom Kippur Tradition

Watermelon in Tel Aviv.

Vodka Watermelon Soup Recipe

The finished babka cake.

How to Make the Perfect Babka How to Make the Perfect Babka (Recipe)

Leek patties

Rosh Hashanah Simanim With 3 Favorite Kosher Recipes

Stuffed onions in pomegranate concentrate.

Four Rosh Hashanah Recipes From Tel Aviv's Best Turkish Restaurant

Baked fish with white wine and tomatoes.

With These 4 Rosh Hashanah Recipes, You Won't Have to Fish for Compliments

Khenagi matzo balls.

From Georgia With Love: A Rosh Hashanah Meal From the Silk Road

A Zalamico special at the street food joint in Jaffa.

Between Jaffa and Tunis: Two Rare Fusion Recipes for Rosh Hashanah

Brisket

Rosh Hashanah Dinner, Prepared in Advance: Your Step-by-step Meal Planner

Chocolate rugelach, a favorite Jewish pastry.

How to Make Chocolate Rugelach, a Favorite Jewish Pastry

A plate of gefilte fish, April 2017

A Survival Guide to Rosh Hashanah: Make a Holiday Meal in 3 Hours

Tsimmes made from carrots and other roasted vegetables including beet, another symbolic food.

Your Guide to the Symbolic Foods of the Rosh Hashanah Seder

Jerusalem kugel/

With Caramelized Sugar and Black Pepper Spice, Jerusalem Kugel Is Everything Nice

Coffee challah.

Cooking With Coffee: Kosher Recipes That Will Wake You Up

One Pot Paprika Chicken with Orzo and Olives

How to Make Nostalgic One-pot Paprika Chicken With Orzo and Olives

Vered Guttman's homemade knafeh in a skillet

Knafeh in a Skillet: An Easy Guide to the Sweet Arab Dessert

Nobody is sure what ashishot are, but the belief is they're a sort of sweet lentil latke.

Recipe for Ancient Sweet: Ashishot Ancient Hebrew Sweet You Could Make Today: Ashishot

Baking bread in much the same type of oven as was used thousands of years ago. Minus the aluminum pot on top.

Ancient Hebrew Recipe You Could Make Today: Ezekiel's Bread

Meatballs in okra, tomatoes and lemon.

Two Saucy Meatballs Dishes That Are Tastier With Time

Kugel with mangold and spinach. Salty cheese replaces sugar.

Oodles of Noodles: Two Recipes for Kugels

Tehina limited only by your imagination.

Tehina With a Twist: Recipes That Remix the Middle Eastern Classic

As soon as you taste the homemade kind you’ll realize how much better they taste.

Perfect for Kids! Your Guide to Easy Homemade Marshmallows

Top left: Greek yogurt popsicle with berry and almond sauce from Greco Deli pop-up ice cream by Gal Kalderon. Top right: Beet sorbet from Sirmione Yogurt, in the Arab town of Kalansua, by Moti Milrod. Bottom right: Baklava-flavored ice cream, in Shfaram Ice Cream by Rami Shllush. Bottom left: Pine nut and saffron ice cream, topped with grilled parmesan cheese from Arte Italian Ice Cream, by Tomer Appelbaum

With These Crazy Israeli Ice Cream Flavors, Who Needs Ben & Jerry's

Kubaneh: Yemenite overnight bread.

Baked Overnight, Ready by Morning: A Recipe for Yemeni Kubaneh

Yotam Ottolenghi (left) and Sami Tamimi. 'Food brings people together.'

Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi Talk Jerusalem, Recipes and Passports

The best hummus recipe.

Look No Further, This Is Your Guide to Perfect Hummus

Israeli burekas.

Bourekas Made Easy: A Recipe for Israel's Favorite Festive Finger Food

Galilean tabbouleh; Japanese tabbouleh.

Tabbouleh by Night, Tabbouleh by Day: Recipes That Honor the Ancient Harvest

Tamarind-roasted beets

Recipes for a Blind Date With the Delicious Tamarind

Dishes prepared from foraged greens, by Meidan Sadeh (Ahmed Hamdoun), of Kibbutz Lotem in the Galilee, in northern Israel, Jan. 2021

Cooking Up Some Wild Arab Delicacies in a Kibbutz Kitchen

Beet and pomegranate seed salad

Sweet and Sour: Your Guide to Flavorful Beet and Pomegranate Seed Salad

ICYMI

How Israel Intentionally Destroyed the Dead Sea

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While Researching Heart Meds, They Found a Way to Grow a Different Kind of Muscle They Wanted to Cure Heart Disease. They Discovered a Way to Grow a Different Kind of Muscle

'My Religious Trans Patients Want to Talk About Faith. What if God Doesn't Forgive?'

'The Chameleon': U.S. Experts Shaken Over What This Iranian Scholar Just Said

'The Doctor Told Me, Sir, You're a Junkie': The Opioid Epidemic Hits Israel