Selected Press
- I cooked and ate with Padma Lakshmi for her second season of Taste the Nation (ep 1 Happy Challah Days)
- Food & Wine asked me about my snacking habits.
- That time The Infatuation included my plant-based High Holiday menu in its roundup and then NY Mag's Grub Street featured Papaya and that same menu
- When JTA featured me and my Papaya venture in 2021
- What an honor to be asked to host the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards in March. Read the announcement
- The guide to food in Berlin I co-wrote was translated into Hebrew and published in Haaretz
- Ronit Vered of Haaretz spoke to me for her article in which she examines the slate of new cookbooks to understand where Jewish food is heading
- I spoke with the team at Projekt Walizka while in Warsaw. Here's the conversation
- The National Jewish Book Awards added a cookbook and food writing category and asked me to serve as one of its five inaugural judges (read the announcement)
- My talk at the Hazon Food Conference (on food waste and a shtetl mindset) was featured in the Jewish Week
- Wow, a journalist rediscovered his lost heritage through using my cookbook and wrote about it for Arc Digital
- Shed light on euphemisms for pork in Israel for an Extra Crispy piece
- Spoke to an NPR reporter about gefilte fish made from (!!!) canned tuna
- Was quoted in The New York Times Magazine on an ode to the bialy by Jason Diamond
- A really nice piece about my passion for pickling from The Jewish Food Society
- Jewish Food Hero interviewed me about my work in the food world.
- An episode of Gravy, the food podcast from The Southern Foodways Alliance, called Going Whole Hog in Israel reported on the pork industry in Israel and interviewed me.
- I headlined the Gefilte Ball, a gefilte fish celebration at Berlin's first Jewish food festival, Nosh Berlin. Read it about in The New York Times.
- The Gefilte Manifesto was named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards
- The New Yorker ran a think piece about gefilte fish, and featured me and The Gefilte Manifesto.
- I cooked dishes from my cookbook with a producer at NPR's All Things Considered.
- Was named to Forbes Magazine’s 30 under 30 list in Food and Wine.
- Vice's food channel, Munchies, ran a pretty sweet profile of me and my business partner.
- Was listed as one of 50 influencers by the Forward newspaper.
- The New York Times covered The Gefilteria and the Ashkenazi food trend, and used a few choice quotes of mine.
- Sometimes I get calls from Serious Eats about the strange sticking power of Celery Soda in the US. I take them and talk for a while about this kind of stuff.
- All about my fascination with the pork taboo and my research on Israel's pork industry and Pork Memoirs in Tablet Magazine.
- Smith Magazine spoke to me about the literary site Pork Memoirs.
- Modern Farmer wrote about pork, taboos and my hang-ups