Each year on Yom Kippur, when Jews fast for 25 hours, we abstain not only from food and water, but also from the wearing of leather footwear. One of the most beautiful interpretations for this ...

Food cooked more than three hours before being eaten, which is tasteless, stale, putrid, decomposed and unclean, is food liked by people in the mode of ignorance.” For Jews, fasting should be combined ...

I can feel the zit on my chin and know I shouldn’t squeeze it, but I do it anyway. It immediately starts throbbing and grows ...

What motivates our desires and appetites is the central question of food writer Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming – and so this book is partly an exploration and analysis of imagined, if rarely imaginary, ...

For those with plant-based preferences, Mrs. Goldfarb’s “Unreal” sandwich features vegetarian corned beef/pastrami that attempts to capture the magic of the original without the meat – a noble effort ...

The matzo ball soup at Canter’s has cured more colds, broken hearts, and hangovers than any medicine known to science. It’s Jewish penicillin in its highest form, the kind of soup that makes you feel ...

Qin Rao, MD, is a board-certified physician based in New York City. He currently works as a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Manhattan Gastroenterology. Eating a gluten-free diet is the only ...