Shulie Madnick is an Israeli Indian living in the DC area. Her parents are Bnai Israel Indian Jews born and raised in and near Mumbai, India. Shulie is a food and travel writer and a photographer. Her articles and photographs have appeared in various publications and on her website.
Two years ago, I turned up my nose at the sound of this new (to me) trend in Israel of halva ice cream. Later, once the idea simmered, I realized that tahini ice cream is not so far fetched given that one of my favorite childhood sweets, halva, is made with the same sesame paste.…
Growing up in Israel, Shulie didn’t eat out much, but the blueberry cheesecake at Kapulsky, the legendary café chain, left lasting memories, so she recreated it at home.
When I had my first bite of the blueberry cheesecake at Kapulsky, Israel’s first café and restaurant chain, it wasn’t my first cheesecake, but it was a novelty nonetheless. As a young adult who dined out only on a handful occasions, if that, I savored Kapulsky’s cheesecake and what was, to me, an exotic ingredient:…
Passover’s over? Quick—go buy flour! As the holiday wraps up, Moroccan Jews host Mimouna parties with lavish tables of sweets and stacks of mufletas, thin pancakes made of the first post-holiday ingredients.
Making mufleta involves a unique Moroccan grandmothers’ technique that has been practiced for centuries: the first pancake is fried on both sides, and subsequent pancakes are added on top of the first one in the pan, so that they are cooked all at once in a towering stack of a dozen, or even twenty, pancakes…
Indian holiday meals filled with ginger, cardamom and cloves (and a chai-loving mother) inspired Shulie to make a Passover masala chai ice cream—it has sweet, spice and everything nice.
The love for masala chai didn’t come to me as an adult, as happened with Brussels sprouts, but in recent years I have developed a hankering for masala chai ice cream. The Indian holiday meals we had when I was growing up inspired me to develop a masala chai ice cream as a Passover dessert.…
Two Israelis bring their baking magic to Manhattan with delicious results and an open-door to look behind the scenes and watch the magic happen, and it’s much more than just breads.
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