Chef Todd Gray and Ellen Kassoff Gray are co-owners of Equinox Restaurant and Harvest Moon Hospitality Group, which includes three other restaurants and two catering companies. They are co-authors of The New Jewish Table (St. Martin's Press, 2013).
We Kassoffs love our kugels! It’s one of those things that is just part of a Jewish upbringing. My grandmother had a knack for making it just right so that the wide noodles and cheese melded into fluffiness with raisins suspended all the way through it. In my mother’s kugel, the raisins always made their…
After Harrison was born, we would put him in the stroller and walk to the Dupont Circle Farmers’ Market on Sunday with our German shepherd, Samson, in tow. We’d get mushrooms from the mushroom lady and eggs from the egg guy, then go home and make frittatas. The mushrooms you add don’t have to be wild—you…
Even though quinoa is a South American grain, we love to use it as you would Mediterranean grains, like faro or couscous. It has a wonderful, nutty taste and is gluten-free, which is something being requested more and more at our restaurants. The red wine vinaigrette complements the sweetness of the figs, a favorite fruit…
This is just a clean, light and refreshing dessert. It’s lovely at brunch (which is when we offer it at the Muse Café in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington). It is also a great dessert after a big meal. And it’s obviously perfect for Passover. Pomegranates add the Middle Eastern touch that I…
This is a food that came out of a jar, courtesy of Manischewitz, and onto the Kassoff family table. Todd’s version is pure heaven.
Aunt Lil’s matzah ball soup got quite a build-up in the Kassoff family long before I ever tasted it and it certainly lived up to the hype. It was rustic, homey and satisfying, but needed some refining around the edges to bring it into the world of fine dining. Aunt Lil, for instance, didn’t add…
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