Preparing and Cooking A #2 Chuck Roast

In my meat chart, I indicate that a #2 is meant for braising and other long, slow cooking methods. While this hunk of meat still walked the earth as part of a cow, this particular muscle group was res... Read More

East and West Machane Yehuda Market

Machane Yehuda is the pulse of culinary Jerusalem. I’m sure you’ve read that before if you’ve been reading my blog posts. Surrounding the two streets of the market itself are a numbe... Read More

Kosher Gatorade Coming to Market

Pretty soon readers in the States will be able to grab a kosher Gatorade after a long workout or ball game or while slaving away in a hot kitchen. That iconic quart of electrolyte-laden thirst-quenchi... Read More

Cookbooks

There are a surfeit of cookbooks on the shelves, everything from pretty books that rattle off lists of ingredients whose duplication in the styled photos is next to impossible, to classic tomes that a... Read More