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The BFD Food Column: Pasta Salad

The BFD Food Column: Pasta Salad

One of my all time favorites is pasta salad. If made well and with interesting and complementary quality ingredients, it can be enjoyed as a tasty side or main dish. This particular recipe I created for the menu of my first restaurant Al Dente in Jerusalem, Israel, back in the

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The BFD Food Column: Challah

The BFD Food Column: Challah

Challah is made usually as a braided bread reserved to be eaten on the Sabbath, at festivals and on special occasions such as weddings. The challah as we know it today has its origins in Eastern Europe but its roots are in the Bible where the Jews are commanded by

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The BFD Food Column: Tartufi

The BFD Food Column: Tartufi

Tartufi is a chocolate delight that few can resist. It is also a useful addition to the kosher for Passover dessert menu being offered at the seder night feast. Tartufi in Italian or truffles in French are Ectomycorrhizal fungi (mushrooms) that grow near the roots of trees. Chocolate truffles are

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The BFD Food Column: Unleavened Bread and Charoset

The BFD Food Column: Unleavened Bread and Charoset

With Pessach (Passover) looming large, Jewish homes the world over are frantically cleaning and gearing up for a week without chametz. Chametz is any food in which the leavening agent yeast can thrive and grow. This is of course from the Torah or Old Testament book of Exodus 11–19

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The BFD Food Column: Number 8 Stew

The BFD Food Column: Number 8 Stew

In NZ, number-eight fencing wire is a well-known and popular Kiwi idiom. Here in the Israeli kitchen, number eight can only refer to the best cut of meat suited to a super-tasty longer cooking stew; the importance of food and its consumption is a unique and inseparable part of the

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The BFD Food Column: Dishoom, from Bombay with Love

The BFD Food Column: Dishoom, from Bombay with Love

I recently attained the grand age of 62 years old and to my delight received a beauty of a cookbook as a birthday present from my youngest daughter Mika and her man Shahar. Shahar, just back from a business junket in London, was lucky enough to be wined and dined

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