Iron Chef Rabbi – Thornhill edition (February, 2010)

Two rabbis. Two chef-wanna-be’s. Each brandishing knives, spoons and a hot stove. We learn that teaching Torah comes in many forms!

Secret Ingredient: Pesach

My dear colleague and friend, Rabbi Cory Weiss (Temple Har Zion, Thornhill, Ontario) and I conceived of this event together. We both love to cook. We both view food as a way to bring people together and create community.

This was not a competition. We each shared different dishes that we loved to make and were ‘Pesach’ (Passover) friendly.

The real challenge was all the preparation in advance: cooking the food so you could show it in all the different stages of cooking. And cooking enough food for a few hundred people so everyone could have a taste of everything.

Exhausting but great fun!

My dear colleague and friend, Rabbi Cory Weiss (Temple Har Zion, Thornhill, Ontario) and I conceived of this event together. We both love to cook. We both view food as a way to bring people together and create community.

This was not a competition. We each shared different dishes that we loved to make and were ‘Pesach’ (Passover) friendly.

The real challenge was all the preparation in advance: cooking the food so you could show it in all the different stages of cooking. And cooking enough food for a few hundred people so everyone could have a taste of everything.

Exhausting but great fun!