Kosher Food and Cooking

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Passover Dinners Not To Pass Over

For eight days every spring, Passover recalls the exodus of Jews from Egypt to freedom, while royally screwing over food choices of modern-day Jews and relegating their diets to flattened pieces of cardboard-tasting matzoh. Given the bevy of pastries, hipster-toasts and other tempting leavened goodi ... More >>

S.F. Resident Wins National Manischewitz Cooking Competition

It ain't the legendary Pillsbury Bake-Off, but San Francisco resident Josie Shapiro won the country's only kosher cooking competition, the Manischewitz Cook-Off Contest, which took place today in Manischewitz HQ in New Jersey. The winning recipe? "Faux pho," a soup made in under an hour with Manisch ... More >>

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Chicken Soup's Good For the Soul at Shorty Goldstein's

A new deli in the Financial District is offering classic comfort food like pastrami sandwiches and chicken soup updated with local, seasonal ingredients, as per usual in S.F. The tagline at Shorty Goldstein's is "cure, brine, smoke, pickle," which refers to all the things that Michael Siegel and his ... More >>

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Nosh and Learn at S.F.'s Jewish Food Festival

Calling all Hebrews, She-Brews, Other-Brews and Non-Brews: quit your kvetching and check out the San Francisco Jewish Food Festival on Sunday, March 17th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hazon and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (3200 California St.) are teaming up to host the event, which is a ... More >>

Passover Menus: Kosher Dishes for the Eating

There are few opportunities for kosher foodies to pig out, but Passover is an exception. The week-long Jewish holiday is here again, and there's an abundance of non-pig options for followers of the faith and dairy-detesting vegans to celebrate. Here's a list of prescribed menus on SFoodie's Pas ... More >>

Parodying My Religion

Karen Solomon's 2011 Find: Proper Deli Food in San Francisco

Alex HochmanWise Sons Deli's chocolate babka.​SFoodie is calling up food types around the city to ask them about their favorite discovery of the past year, whether it's new or ancient, an ingredient or a person. We'll be running their responses through the end of the year. San Francisco-based f ... More >>

Get Your Matzah On: Old World's Hanukkah Pop-Up Dinner!

​What: Old World's Hanukkah Pop-Up Dinner Where: La Victoria When: Tue. and Wed., December 20 and 21, seatings at 5:30 and 8:15 p.m. Cost: $40 adult, $20 kid (kids welcome at 5:30 p.m. seating) The rundown: Jewish people and lovers of delicious Jewish food unite, for it's an unique pop-u ... More >>

Wise Sons Passover Seder at Coffee Bar

the design pocket/FlickrNo spot for vanilla pot de creme?​Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen Passover Seder Where: Coffee Bar, 1890 Bryant (at Mariposa), 551-8100 When: Mon., April 18, 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday seder is sold out) Cost: $45, $65 with wine pairings The rundown: If San Francisco can hav ... More >>

Everything But the Haggadah: Three Passover Takeout Options

Miller's Robby Morgenstein hits all the Passover classics.​With Easter reliable falling on a Sunday for the past, oh, 2000 years or so, gentiles have it easy when it comes to holiday dinners. Us Hebrews, not so much. A full weekend to cook would be nice, but Passover can seem like a moving t ... More >>

Maps, Maps, Maps: This Week in Food Bloggery

kennejima/FlickrCastro Farmers Market: Back in business.​Five SFoodie highlights from this week:1. Sean Timberlake just updated the map of San Francisco farmers' markets that Jun Belen created last year. Then he came up with a schedule of markets, listed by day of the week. This is one for the boo ... More >>

Passover Matzo Ball Soup Brawl: Miller's Deli vs. Moishe's Pippic

Alex HochmanMiller's matzo ball soup isn't kosher for Passover, but it'll fill up even the hungriest of growing Jewish boys.​ Sticking matzo ball soup on your restaurant menu takes straight-up chutzpah. Everyone thinks their grandma makes the best one on Earth, or if they're not Jewish, their ... More >>

Would Mordecai Bow Down to Any of These Hamantaschen?

Alex HochmanFrom left: Hamantaschen from House of Bagels, Cinderella Bakery, and Noe Valley Bakery, traditionally eaten at Purim, which starts Saturday at sundown.​Purim isn't exactly a well-known Jewish holiday, so for the goyim, we offer a quick recap with Star Wars references to make it eas ... More >>

Kosher Food and Social Justice Subject of Sha'ar Zahav Talk

The Parve BakerRabbi Becky Joseph.​Kosher Jews, Mike Tyson, and anyone else interested in a good ole San Francisco-style discussion regarding food, Jewish law, and ethics will want to check out next week's panel discussion at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in the Mission. "Chewing on Food Justice â ... More >>

Why Is Kosher So Appealing to Goyim? Author Sue Fishkoff Explains at JCCSF

​If you're like us, the reasons for grabbing packets of kosher chicken are tough to explain. We have a general notion that kosher meat is better in some way, and we're willing to shell out a little extra for its allure, even though we're not of "the tribe." In fact, says author Sue Fishkoff, 85 ... More >>

Battle Jewtalian: Pitting Brisket Against Braciole

Alex HochmanThe fish round: baccala salad on the left, smoked fish on the right.​Like Moshe Dayan in the Six Day War, Sandy Koufax in the 1965 World Series, and Dustin Hoffman at multiple Oscar ceremonies, Sam Leonard scored a big win for the Jews last Saturday night with a decisive takedown of hi ... More >>

Battle Jewtalian Pits Granny Classic Against Granny Classic

abmatic/FlickrSomething tells us Battle Jewtalian's matzo bri won't start out looking quite as humble as this.​Matzo bri, manicotti, and artisan cocktails will attempt to coexist on the same dinner table at the upcoming Battle Jewtalian on the rooftop terrace at the Tenderloin's Cova Hotel, pr ... More >>

Why Is There No Local Matzoh?

Shmurah matzoh.​As SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi wrote a couple years ago, matzoh drama has become endemic in the Bay Area. Price hikes, gluts, shortages, frantic shopping marathons. Why is this night not like any other night? Because Mommy spent six hours looking for bread, dearie. Not to add to the f ... More >>

Sweets Makers Taking Orders for Passover Matzo Desserts, Disagree on Spelling

Emily Stone/seriouseats.comCharles' chocolate-covered matzah: A recipe for love?​The first seder of the week-long Passover holiday is Monday, March 29. Act now, and you won't be limited to whatever sad-looking last-minute macaroons are left on the Safeway shelf for that all-important unleavene ... More >>

Kvetches and Sketches

The Story of a Cracker: The Great Matzah Famine of 2008 is Latest S.F. Unleavened Shenanigan

Not a Lotta Matzo in the Bay Area This Weekend

Good Fressin' at the Delicatessen

Introducing San Francisco's best deli

Not Really a Deli

But discovering a great deli sandwich during a great summer festival is quite nice

Jew Eat Yet?

What does a girl have to do to get a decent hot pastrami in this town?

Four Best Delis

Five Best Comfort Foods

You Shouldn't Go Hungry

East Coast West Delicatessen

Best Jewish Deli

Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Mom

Night Crawler

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