Shulie: I’m thrilled to be featured on The Rambling Epicure, a thought-provoking, worldwide culinary website situated in Switzerland. I enjoy the multicultural material, which delves into the realm of food in all of its sides and brings us together as a community to better understand one another. Thank you very much, Jonell; I’m pleased to…
This is the first time I’ve seen a chicken dish like this. This was the first time I’d ever had anything like that. When I first tasted chicken chitannee, I didn’t think about Aurangzeb, the British, or Dawud Pasha, Baghdad’s final Mamluk ruler. The thick gravy, combined with the fluffy white gobindobhog rice, would not…
I wanted to highlight the various flavors of the Indian Jewish experience. Did you know that Jews have been living in India for almost 2,500 years and were the country’s first foreign religious group? It’s no surprise that the marriage of Indian tastes and Jewish tradition results in a delectable and distinctive dish. I tweaked…
Babu Ji, a popular modern Indian cafe named after “what we New Yorkers may call the mayor of the block,” is a must-visit for fans of all things chili and spice. If you’re talking about the mayor of a New York City block, you can bet he’ll require an egg and cheese bagel sandwich to…
Eddna Samuel is full of curiosity, adventure, and joy. She was born in India and has lived in the United States, India, and Israel for the past few months. She prefers not to plan and prefers to let events evolve naturally. She has lived in eight different places in Israel since arriving. While some people…
Having stated that, allow me to make a couple of educated guesses. The abundance of tomatoes reminds me of the Portuguese chicken in tomato sauce, Frango com Molho de Tomate. And didn’t the Sephardic Jews relocate to Goa, where the food is sour and vinegar is liberally used? And as they encountered Indian spices along…
So, it’s been a while since I’ve shared a recipe with you. Please accept my apologies for the delay. I’ve been dealing with some technological issues (my computer died), a hectic work schedule, school, and my child’s stomach sickness. I’m also fairly pregnant right now and not very quick on my feet… The good news…
With this third book, Marks revisits the territory covered in The World of Jewish Cooking and The World of Jewish Entertaining, encompassing Jewish food from around the world. While the previous two books were notable for the wide range of recipes they provided, it appears that Jews all around the world consume similar desserts. More…
Even though there are around 100,000 Indian Jews in Israel, their history, customs, and—leave it to me to point this out!—food remains a mystery to those outside the community. After all, what’s Passover without lamb biryani? Shulie Madnick, a renaissance woman with skills in writing, photography, cooking, teaching, and public speaking, has spent the last…
There’s a whole menu of Jewish cuisine that most of us will be unfamiliar with. It’s quite unique, having been developed by a group of Iraqi Jews in Calcutta. It was always a small group of émigrés — 5,000 people at its peak — that has now shrunk to less than 20 people. “Even at…