Best of Jewish Washington

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09/12/2017 Edited by Emily K. Alhadeff

The Set Table

Three Recipes from Sweet

Impress your guests with these divine desserts.

09/12/2017 With Yotam Ottolenghi

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Sweet on Yotam Ottolenghi!

The Israeli-British chef answers all of our burning questions.

09/12/2017 Edited by Emily K. Alhadeff

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Pastrami Loves Wine

Two food entrepreneurs want their products to be an experience.

08/10/2017 By Naomi Tomky

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Meet Three Chefs Changing Israel's Food Scene

Try these crazy recipes coming out of the innovation nation.

06/06/2017 By Keren Brown Photography by Joshua Huston

Set Table

Here’s What to Do with That Leftover Matzoh

These ingenious brewers turn it into beer.

04/05/2017 By Naomi Tomky

Set Table

Seders from Four Corners of the Earth

Make this night truly different from all other nights.

04/05/2017 By Shulie Madnick

Travel

In East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem, Food Brings Us Together

Two meals, so different yet so much the same

02/09/2017 By Naomi Tomky

The Set Table

A New Jewish Deli Comes to the Northwest — Just Not Seattle

Vancouver’s new pastrami hot spot is worth a trip north.

02/09/2017 By Naomi Tomky

Festival of Delights

The Experts Weigh In

Who better to rate Seattle's doughnuts than the man who runs the city and the people who keep it safe?

12/01/2016 By Emily K. Alhadeff

Festival of Delights

Criminally Tasty

When we asked the Seattle Police Department to participate in a blind doughnut taste test, they kind of broke the door down.

12/01/2016 By Emily K. Alhadeff

Sufganiyot of Seattle

Festival of Delights

Which local doughnut shop is the fairest of them all? To answer that, we turned to a handful of experts.

12/01/2016 By Emily K. Alhadeff

Festival of Delights

The Great Doughnut Schlep

How did sufganiyot take off in Israel, while the latke commands the American Hanukkah market?

12/01/2016 By Emily K. Alhadeff

Best of Jewish Neighborhoods

Bellevue: The Kibbutz

Beyond the immediate advantages of this lakeside suburb, members of Bellevue’s diverse, polyglot population may just greet you with “boker tov."

12/01/2016 By Naomi Tomky

Best of Jewish Neighborhoods

Capitol Hill: The Original

Capitol Hill is where it all started — from Temple De Hirsch in 1899 to the bustling Jewish life of the nearby Central District through the 1950s.

12/01/2016 By Naomi Tomky

Best of Jewish Neighborhoods

Rainier Valley: Hipsters and Hasids

On offer: semi-affordable housing, light-rail, five synagogues, and an eruv that extends from the shoreline on the east up to Martin Luther King Jr. Way on the west.

12/01/2016 By Naomi Tomky

Best of Jewish Neighborhoods

Ravenna/Wedgwood: The Small Town

How could we not note this swath of northeast Seattle for its vibrant Jewish community, dating back to the 1950s?

12/01/2016 By Naomi Tomky

Best of Jewish Neighborhoods

Ballard: The Startup

Though historically considered a Scandinavian neighborhood, as more and more Jewish families move in, Ballard has become an under-the-radar hub of Jewish life in Seattle.

12/01/2016 By Naomi Tomky

The Set Table

The Sweetest Things

Support your local trees and bees on Rosh Hashanah.

10/01/2016 By Naomi Tomky

Recipes

Spice It Up

Change up a weeknight dinner or a holiday menu with these recipes adapted from Pabla classics.

08/01/2016 By Naomi Tomky