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Hot Nights and Cold Pickling
We had a great night of pickling thanks to CSA members and pickle mavens Nina Rubin and Mimi Hall. Following “Beck’s Cold Water Pickles” Recipe (below) we submerged everything from string beans, okra, radishes and of course cucumbers into a cold bath of briny goodness and pondered the distinctions between the old “Ball Blue Book” [...]
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Growing Jewish Institutions
Around the country, a number of synagogues, JCCs, day schools, and other Jewish institutions are doing inspiring work to integrate the physical spaces of gardens and farms into their core work of transmitting Jewish ideas and values. Last month, I highlighted the increased popularity of school and community gardens and pointed out some of the necessary [...]
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Row by Row: Growing a School Garden Movement
One of the great successes of the new food movement is that planting gardens has become hugely popular in schools and other communal institutions. In the Jewish community, day schools and camps are increasingly jumping on the green bandwagon to install everything from small herb and flower container gardens to large-scale vegetable gardens. When I speak to [...]
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Community Supported Agriculture Season Kicks off With Two Pick-Up Points
photo credit: Joel Silverman Story by Marcy Levinson Brooks If you are interested in bringing to your family’s dinner table, a variety of fresh, organic, and locally grown food, then looks no further than Shearith Israel and Temple Sinai. The new Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) season officially opens this month, and those interested in buying in to the [...]
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Soup and Sandwich People’s Choice Awards
Thank you to all of the wonderful cooks, our beautiful Master of Ceremonies (Amanda “Brand Jew” Marks) and the incredible judges (Farmer D, Jenny Levison, Daniel Alterman and Joel Silverman) and especially the TASTERS who came out for our Sukkot celebration and the 2nd tasty local foods cook-off brought to you by Open Jewish Project [...]
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