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Winter – lemony spiced lentil & chickpea soup with coriander dressing
This delicious recipe is from Rebel Recipes by Niki Webster is published December 26th (Bloomsbury, RRP £26). Photos: Kris Kirkham.
50 attend launch of first ever Jewish ‘Green Drinks’, new eco networking event, at the JVS.
50 people gathered at the JVS last week for the launch of Jewish ‘Green Drinks’, a brand new networking event for people involved in the Jewish eco-sphere to meet, and find out what is going on in the community. JVS, together with Shema: The Jewish Environmental Network will host the event quarterly, bringing together individuals from across […]
Egg-Free Challah Program launched by Shamayim
Exciting news alert! Our friends at Shamayim: Jewish Animal Advocacy are launching a new program that will help your congregation be more eco-conscious and animal-friendly by instituting one simple change. To sign up for the Egg-Free Challah Program, email [email protected]. You’ll receive all of the guidance and support you need to launch this program at your […]
Happy New You! Wellbeing event 15/09 in London
We are delighted to be taking part in this wonderful event, dedicated to well-being, on 15th September in NW London, organised by Laniado Hospital UK. Find us in the exhibitor area, where you can get expert vegan dietary advice from Ines The Wild Chef, and learn about the work JVS does.
Are veggies the key to campus kashrut? JC 30 Aug 2019
Mazel tov if you’re off to university – writes Victoria Prever in the Jewish Chronicle – if you’re fretting about keeping kosher away from home, read on… Keeping kashrut at university will mean investing in milky and meaty sets of pans, chopping boards and utensils plus paying premium prices for the kosher meat itself. To […]
Hear us on the Bagel Podcast!
Catch us on the The Bagel Podcast – A Jewish Magazine Podcast! Fast forward to 28 minutes and 10 seconds in to hear a Jewish response to the climate crisis with pragmatic solutions from our Director Lara Balsam, Andree Frieze from Eco Synagogue and Michael Lomotey from Extinction Rebellion Jews. We would love to hear your […]
Coconut Banana Nice Cream & Chocolate Chip Cookies
Even though my father was the chef, my mother would always allow me to help her bake desserts in the kitchen on the weekends. Whenever she decided to bake, I was always there, sneakily waiting for her to pass me the empty bowl to lick clean of whatever remained. Not an easy feat when you […]
Spicy cauliflower walnut ‘meat’
Nowadays, it’s easy to walk into a supermarket and pick out an assortment of substitute meats, but they’re always wrapped in plastic so to keep a no-waste lifestyle going – we have to get creative. One day perhaps we will have a package-free aisle for all products in every food shop and supermarket around the […]
Aquafaba butter
Notice how most butter products in the supermarket are packaged in plastic? This butter is planet-friendly and a delicious way to use that leftover water from soaking chickpeas, or from the tin. Chickpea water is a really useful ingredient and can be made into delicious things like meringue and marzipan. Scientifically, it’s known as ‘aquafaba’ […]
House of Lords find no evidence “vegetarian burgers” are misleading for consumers
The House of Lords EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee have raised concerns that an EU amendment to ban the use of words like ‘sausage’ and ‘burger’ to describe foods that don’t contain meat would in fact: · Reduce consumer clarity · Be a barrier to growth for a burgeoning sector of the food industry · […]