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Roasted Tzimmes Platter

JL;DR SUMMARY Leah Koenig explores the traditionally polarizing Ashkenazi dish tzimmes, offering a modern take with a roasted variety featuring sweet potatoes, carrots, red onions, and fennel, dressed with honey, lemon, and ginger. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HolidaysTraditional RecipesJewish TableAshkenazi CuisineSukkotCulinary HistoryRoasted VegetablesTzimmesLeah KoenigRecipe Innovation

Places mentioned

London, United Kingdom
"A menu from a circa-1900 kosher restaurant in London offered kischke zimmesa common variation."
United States
"In Jewish-American kitchens, carrots and sweet potatoes emerged as the reigning tsimmes vegetables."

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