6pm – 8pm Get to know your local Klezmorim on Monday nights at Saul’s, starting April 23. Featuring Dave Rosenfeld (on mandolin, violin, percussion) Mike Perlmutter (on clarinet) Invite your friends and family Ask for prime orchestra seating It will be helpful if you let us know if you are bringing 5 [...]
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Meet Chef Elisheva
March 22, 2012 – 3:27 pm
Elisheva Issac. At Saul’s for 8 months now. She joins Executive Chef and Co-Owner Peter Levitt in developing our menu. She comes to us from Israel. Her mother is Libyan, her father Ashkenazi – Romanian, Hungarian, French. Her resume includes Le Cordon Bleu in SF and a stint at Citizen Cake, but she insists the [...]
Preserved lemon in Jewish cooking
January 6, 2011 – 12:38 pm
Joan Nathan says “preserved lemons are an indispensable item in my pantry cupboard.” From her book The Foods of Israel Today on preserved lemons in Jewish cooking: “(The lemons) are delicious in salads, in chicken with olives, in a marvelous Moroccan brisket, and stuffed into the cavity of a simple roast chicken with garlic and [...]
Camp Kee Tov comes to visit
September 5, 2010 – 9:51 am
We love hosting Camp Kee Tov campers learning about where food comes from. It’s one of our favorite parts of summer each year. This year Kee Tov campers visited Terra Bella Family Farm, one of our purveyors, then came to Saul’s the next day and tasted summer tomatoes with zhoug. Their very own private farm-to-table [...]
Progressive Jewish Alliance Food Justice: It’s What’s for Dinner
September 30, 2009 – 2:42 pm
The Progressive Jewish Alliance event Food Justice: It’s What’s for Dinner on September 9, 2009 was incisive and inspiring. And we had a chance to talk about a taboo subject: meat. Why was meat taboo? For many progressive, observant Jewish eaters, eating meat at all is ethically and environmentally questionable. Some eat meat, but only [...]
Housemade soda
July 19, 2009 – 11:09 am
Back-to-local, small-batch processing with our scratch-made sodas syrups. Cream and Celery is scratch-made in house, and Black Cherry is made only when black cherries are in season. One of the biggest changes in Jewish Deli history has been consolidation of the soda industry, from hundreds of small-batch, regional and local soda alchemists in the New [...]
