Inaugural Festival Sefarad Shabbat Dinner

American Sephardi Federation in partnership with the UJA-Federation of New York and TriBeCa Synagogue present: 

Inaugural Festival Sefarad Shabbat Dinner

Join award-winning scholar and chef Dr. Hélène Jawhara Piñer, who is flying in from France, to inaugurate Festival Sefarad with a celebratory Shabbat dinner.

As a culinary historian of Jewish Spain, Dr. Hélène Jawhara Piñer mines the rich and varied history of Sephardic cooking from the records of Inquisition trials, medical treatises and medieval cookbooks written in Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Occitan, Italian and Hebrew.

Soup: Modern Ḥarīra: Tomato and Flour Soup

Meat: Harisa: Wheat grain and chicken stew & Roasted eggplant

Fish: Mexican converso fish stew for Shabbat & Roasted spiced potatoes (Sephardi)

Dessert: Neulas encanonadas: Brik pastry rolls with almonds and honey (Sephardi)

Manjar blanco

Friday, 6 June at 7:00PM

@Tribeca Synagogue – 49 White Street, NYC