Jewish Cooking is trendy these days, with many young chefs and bloggers creating kosher and unkosher dishes that play on tradtional favorties. As trendy as it is, it also an incredibly broad category, much of which is often overlooked and underestimated. While most of us probably imagine matzah balls and bagels first, the world of Jewish foods is so much broader than the often underseasoned but still well loved classics. With an explosion is current Jewish food trend blogs, it’s no wonder that so many of us are fascinated by food, chefs, and what exactly qualifies as Jewish food. New Center NOW endeavors into this Jewish culinary imagination every year with Beyond Bubbie’s Kitchen, where Boston’s favorite chefs envision their own modern takes on the traditions. The New Center NOW Cooking Circle has taken that exploration a step further in the last year, creating smaller scale cooking classes and hands on opportunities with a variety of teachers and chefs. An evening with Israel’s beloved food critic Janna Gur, to rugelach baking, to the BBK Challenge cooking competition, the Cooking Circle is creating unique and fun opportunities for those of us who love to cook and explore what Jewish Cooking really means.
Continuing on the path of exploring the may faces of Jewish Cooking, we have 2 of our most exciting opportunities yet coming up in the next few weeks:
Israeli BBQ with NYCs beloved Taim chef/owner Einat Admony
She known for making Israeli falafel popular in NYC, and now she’s coming to Boston to explore what exactly Israeli BBQ is. Harissa honey chicken wings, kebabs, tabouli, hummus, green tahini sauce… Classics with a twist, all on the grill at Fire & Ice (Back Bay). Tickets for THIS Tuesday (March 12) available here if this is making you hungry!
And on May 21st… Join Roxy’s Gourmet Grilled Cheese chef/owner James DiSabatino for Grilled Cheese 101. Tradition dictates that we eat dairy on Shavuot to commemorate the 40 days Moses spent on the mountain, so James is teaching us some professional tips and tricks of the grilled cheese trade! Worth the drive to Gordon’s Fine Wines demo kitchen in Waltham. Tic
kets coming soon.
Whether you love to cook, or whether you really just want to eat, come meet these incredible chefs, learn how they relate to Jewish food and what delicious things they’re doing to update traditions.
Contributed by Laura Conrad Mandel, director New Center NOW
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