Nextbook @ Kosherfest
Nextbook’s Sara Ivry offers this podcast on her trip to Kosherfest. I won’t say it’s trite, but here’s hoping she’s gotten over her Manischewitz fixation. (Read the memo.)
Honestly, I’d like to think that if I were covering an unfamiliar ethnic food show, I wouldn’t marginalize its participants by harping again and again on their stereotypical foods. “Who knew that latino food was more than chimichangas and extreme fajitas?” “I was excited to try General Gao’s latest creations, but I learned that Asians have actually been around for thousands of years, and actually make fresh, seasonally-inspired foods without MSG!”
Okay, maybe the podcast wasn’t that bad, but, yes, it’s a sore spot for me :) One need not invoke the ghosts of seders past (or Susie Fishbein’s mind-numbing minions) to show one’s readers that there is a mature kosher food industry, full of people who are serious about health, quality, and all-around good eating.
More encouraging is Linda Kulman’s contribution to Nextbook, one that installs chef/author Laura Frankel (of Chicago’s Shallots Bistro) alongside kosher cookbook pioneers Judith Cohen Montefiore and Edith Levy. Frankel’s new cookbook, “Jewish Cooking for All Seasons,” is chock-full of innovative, seasonally-inspired recipes suitable for the kosher home, absent the cliche ethnic food (and the cliche comments about it).
hey jabbett just wanted to let u know that i agree with all ur anger at manishagitz and i enjoy ur rantings against suisie fishbein someone plz tell her to stop repackiging the same recipes!