Food & Recipes
Discover food and both traditional and new recipes integral to Jewish culture.
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Download A Taste of Summer
You don’t have to be a camper to enjoy the magic of summer. Anyone who loves warm evenings and meaningful traditions will want this free digital collection of camp-inspired recipes!
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Camp Food All Week!
When you think of summer camp meals, what comes to mind? If you’ve ever attended a URJ camp – North America’s Reform Jewish camping system – you know that camp food goes far beyond standard cafeteria fare.
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Jewish Tailgating: 7 Recipes That Will Score Big with Fans
Try these Jewish-inspired recipes with bold, global flavors for a crowd-pleasing game day.
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The Sticky Stuff That Holds Us Together: Cheese
Detroit cheesemonger Zach Berg connects cultures and communities through storytelling, Jewish values, and food.
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Judaism: The Faith of Feasting
The opening chapters of Genesis introduce and establish one of the most enduring elements of Jewish religion, spirituality, and culture: the power of food.
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Each of us has foods we consider Jewish, but in reality, Jewish food varies dramatically with geography, heritage, and the surrounding culture. These differences don't make any of us – or our foods – more or less authentically Jewish, but rather richly diverse and blessed.
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Shabbat Recipes
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Baked Chicken with Barley
Tina Wasserman
This classic Bulgarian Shabbat dish is delicious, comforting, and very easy to make.
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Chopped Liver
Tina Wasserman
Another by-product of the Shabbat chicken - thank goodness those Eastern European Jews didn’t waste anything!
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Sanbat Wat (Ethiopian Shabbat Stew)
Tina Wasserman
Often declared the national dish of Ethiopia, a wat is a stew, and doro wat is a spicy chicken stew eaten with one’s fingers using injera bread to scoop up the morsels of food and gravy and to temper the heat of the seasonings.
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Vegan Challah
Lisa Dawn Angerame
Round challah symbolizes the cycle of the year and are traditional for Rosh HaShanah ; challot are traditionally braided for Shabbat. Either way, the key to delicious challah is kneading the dough.
Camp Recipes
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Camp Recipe: Nellie’s Famous Apple Brown Betty
The URJ Camp Coleman Team
Whether you like to eat mostly crunchy crust, sweet, gooey apples, or a perfectly balanced combination of the two, this dish holds a special place in the hearts (and stomachs) of URJ Camp Coleman campers and alumni.
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Camp Recipe: Homemade Banana Pudding
URJ Jacobs Camp
Nothing says “Welcome to camp!” like a serving of homemade banana pudding from URJ Jacobs Camp, a Reform Jewish summer camp in Utica, MS. It's served on opening and closing night.
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Camp Recipe: Summer Camp-Style Fried Chicken
At URJ Greene Family Camp in Bruceville, TX, nothing signals Shabbat quite like the camp’s famous fried chicken, served up for Friday night dinner.
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Camp Recipe: Chef Lori's Shabbat Brownies
The URJ Camp George Team
Like at so many Jewish summer camps, the Shabbat experience is a highlight for campers and staffers alike at URJ Camp George in Ontario, Canada. These chocolaty brownies, created by chef Lori Stevenson, help make Shabbat even sweeter.