Kosher.com is a food and lifestyle media company featuring kosher recipes, videos, and articles on their website and social media accounts. Launched in December 2016,[1] Kosher.com has grown to over 14,000 recipes and over 1,000 videos as of 2024[update].[2][3] The website is a platform for a collection of recipes that are reprinted from cookbooks, kosher food magazine archives, and original recipes from direct contributors, making it the most diverse collection of kosher-only recipes.[4][5] The site is especially known for its Jewish holiday recipe collections, especially its robust section of Passover recipes which meet the halachic criteria of kosher for Passover food,[6] and includes other holidays like Rosh Hashanah and Hanukkah as well.[7][8][9][10]
Type of site | Cooking website |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Founded | December 2016 |
| URL | kosher |
Launch
editKosher.com began by creating partnerships with Jewish media companies, including Artscroll, Mishpacha Magazine, Ami Magazine, and Binah Magazine, and putting their popular kosher recipes online for the first time, where anyone can access them.[11]
Shows
editSeason One
editThe first season, 2017, featured ongoing shows centered around one person or theme. Jamie Geller starred in a show about going behind the scenes in kosher restaurants, Esty Wolbe had a show for easy family recipes,[12] and there was a "hands and pans" style of show called Shortcuts. Naomi Nachman started her show Sunny Side Up easy fun recipes and has now recorded over 75 episodes since she began at the inception of Kosher.com
Season Two
editIn 2018, most of the earlier shows continued to run. In addition, a new format of show launched in the summer - a cooking competition called Food Fight. The show featured female kosher cooks and had four rounds, each one eliminating a contestant until the winner was chosen.[13][14]
A few months later, Kosher.com created a new show starring Rorie Weisberg, the winner of Food Fight. Her show is called Living Full 'n Free and is about healthy cooking.[15][16]
Season Three
editOnce again, in 2019, Kosher.com released a cooking competition in the summer. Following the format of Food Fight, the show was a four-round elimination series, but took place in Oxnard, California in a kosher restaurant, and the competitors were men.[17] This decision got some criticism from journalists on Twitter, for featuring only men to the exclusion of women in contrast to the previous year.[18] Jewish comedian Elon Gold served as the host of the show.[19]
In December 2019, a new show geared for kids launched, called Nosh and Nibble.[20] The first episodes featured Rylee Gluck, an 11 year old making dishes such as personal dessert pizzas. The show is geared for kids and will feature other children in future episodes. [21][22]
Guest appearances
editKosher.com has recipes contributed by well-known cookbook authors and chefs including Michael Solomonov, Deb Perelman, Einat Admony, Jamie Geller,[23] Susie Fishbein, Chanie Apfelbaum, Naomi Nachman, Janna Gur, Gil Marks, Joan Nathan, and Laura Frankel. Admony and Apfelbaum have also appeared as guests on Kosher.com videos.
References
edit- ^ Geller, Gabriel. "Kosher.com Brings Kosher Recipes and More Together on Its Website". www.jewishlinknj.com.
- ^ "Kosherfest Is Putting A New Spin On The Jewish Food Industry". WCBS-TV (NewYork.CBSlocal.com). November 13, 2018.
- ^ Recipe count displayed on Kosher.com. https://www.kosher.com/search
- ^ "Online Kosher Recipe Hub, Kosher.com, Is Tapping Into the Home Cooking Revolution". Kosher Today. June 26, 2017.
- ^ "Four authors of food-related books dish about their dishes at Barnes & Noble". Star Tribune.
- ^ Jennifer B. Lee (April 15, 2009). "Sweet and Sour Veal, and Some Matzo, for Passover". The New York Times.
- ^ "Can Matzo Ever Taste Good? An Interview With The Queen Of Passover Prep". The Forward. March 15, 2018.
- ^ "This Passover Survival Guide Is Everything". The Forward. March 14, 2018.
- ^ Winer, Madeleine. "Happy (Jewish) New Year! 4 Kosher recipes to help you celebrate". The Courier-Journal.
- ^ "Want to treat your Hanukkah guests? Make latkes with some extra flavor". www.timesofisrael.com.
- ^ Headapohl, Jackie (June 21, 2017). "Skinny Summer Cooking from Kosher.com". The Jewish News.
- ^ "Why 30,000 Orthodox women belong to this recipe-sharing Facebook group". November 2, 2017.
- ^ "'Food Fight' Is The Orthodox Community's Answer To 'Chopped'". The Forward. August 3, 2018.
- ^ Leichman, Abigail Klein. "'Food fight' knockout". jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com.
- ^ Muchnick, Jeanne. "Rockland chef will showcase healthy foods on new Kosher.com web series". lohud.com.
- ^ Jakubovic /Kosher.com, Vicki (November 13, 2023). "Health Coach Rorie Weisberg Presents 'Living Full 'n Free' on Kosher.com". www.jewishlinkbwc.com.
- ^ "Cafe Society: Michelin-star chefs shine in Ventura County". Ventura County Star.
- ^ "Just received a PR about a cooking competition "SKILL'IT"". Twitter.
- ^ "L.A. Kosher Chefs Compete in 'Skill'it' Cook-Off". Jewish Journal. July 10, 2019.
- ^ Staff, J. T. (December 20, 2019). "New Web Series Captures the Fun of Cooking for Kids".
- ^ "LI girl selected to host new online show". Newsday.
- ^ "PJ Library launches children's kosher cooking web series". www.thejewishadvocate.com. February 15, 2017.
- ^ Joan Nathan (November 23, 2010). "To Revive Jewish Dishes, Some Cooks Look to the Shtetl". The New York Times.
writes recipes for kosher.com