East Bay Jewish film fest serves up meals movies to up your cravings
Okay, so the vaccine is now making its way as a result of our ranks, but we nevertheless have to safeguard ourselves from the virus for who understands how extended. You’re all Zoomed out, and fatigued of cooking.
But on four Tuesday afternoons in January and February, a free online method might stoke your culinary hearth right up until eating places open again.
“Film, Food & Great: The Foodie Film Fest” — presented by the East Bay Intercontinental Jewish Film Festival — will offer cooking demonstrations by 4 American-Israeli chefs, each and every paired with a screening of a diverse food stuff-targeted movie.
Provided the propensities of these celeb chefs and cookbook authors for sharing private tales along with their recipes and insider guidelines, the method of cooking demos, culinary history and gastronomical movies helps make for an appetizing combine.
It is provided as a service to the group thanks to pageant donors.
Each of the 4 chef demos will start out at 5 p.m. The movie pairing will be out there to stream commencing at 8 a.m. that exact day, and will be readily available through the future Sunday at 10 p.m., two times right before the future chef demo occasion and subsequent movie in the sequence. Here’s what is on the menu:
January 19. Einat Admony, the chef of the Center Eastern cafe Balaboosta and the falafel chain Taim, will clearly show how to get ready Moroccan spiced fish, Yemenite salad with fenugreek, yogurt dressing and ja’ala (a roasted nut and seed mix). The movie is the 75-minute “Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles,” a sumptuous 2020 documentary in English about Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi and his commission to depict the French Palace of Versailles in — you guessed it — cakes.
January 26. Lior Lev Sercarz, the chef, spice blender and operator of La Boite, a New York Metropolis biscuits and spice store, will get ready a freekeh and feta salad, charred eggplant and a labneh parfait. The film is “A Touch of Spice,” a 2003 drama about a Turkish refugee in Greece revisiting childhood reminiscences. It’s 108 minutes in Greek, Turkish and English, with English subtitles.
February 2. Danielle Renov, food items blogger, influencer and author of the well-liked cookbook “Peas, Adore and Carrots,” will get ready meat-stuffed artichokes, sumac-scented fennel and tangerine salad. The movie is “In Research of Israeli Cuisine,” a fantastic accompaniment. In this visually engaging, 96-minute documentary in English from 2016, Israel-born chef Michael Solomonov (identified for his Philadelphia restaurant Zahav) will take a industry journey to Israel to investigate the diverse roots of Israeli foods.
February 9. Adeena Sussman, the bestselling author of “Sababa: Fresh new Sunny Flavors from my Israeli Kitchen,” among other folks, will be launched by Solomonov. She will get ready two of her cookbook’s desserts, “My Mother’s Irresistible Peach Kuchen” and “Chewy Tahini Blondies.” The film is the 94-moment “Dough,” a mild British drama from 2015. Established in England, it is about a youthful Muslim who apprentices in a failing Jewish bakery, and provides a unique “green ingredient” that sends income sky substantial.
Now how’s your appetite?
For a lot more data or to make reservations for cost-free tickets, take a look at eastbayjewishfilm.org.
