[Video below.] Yeshiva University students will hold a “Cholent Cook-off” to determine who makes the tastiest and most original of the quintessential Shabbat dish on YU’s Wilf Campus in Weissberg Commons, 2495 Amsterdam Ave. (at 184th St.) on Thursday, April 7 at 2:45 PM. The event is sponsored by YU’s Office of University Housing.
In keeping with the tradition of slow-cooking the stew dish, 16 teams of four students will prepare their dishes the night before. The next afternoon, a panel of discriminating palates will crown the winner.
The judges are Dr. Esther Joel, wife of YU President Richard M. Joel; Josh Friedland, creator of The Food Section, a pioneering blog about food, wine and travel; Elan Kornblum, president and publisher of Great Kosher Restaurants Magazine; Chef Avram Wiseman, senior culinary instructor at the Center for Kosher Culinary Arts; Jamie Geller, chief marketing officer of Kosher.com and author of Quick & Kosher: Recipes From The Bride Who Knew Nothing; Alan Riesenburger, catering director and executive chef ofFairway Market; Alana Newhouse, editor-in-chief of Tablet magazine; and David Samuels, a noted food writer/critic. The meat for the competition, Kobe-Wagyu beef, is being donated by A.D. Rosenblatt Kosher Meats.
View a video from the 2010 Cholent Cook-Off below:
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How can a woman be a judge?
@#1 That gave me a good laugh.
There needs to be a national championship round, YU vs. Yeshivish vs. Chasidish.
What’s the matter Meir? She’s not being on a beis din and this is somewhere that womens lib is recognized. There is nothing wrong with what they are doing, sorry.
How can it taste good without Taam D’Shabbos?
Are they going to put out a cholent cookbook with all the recipes for the best cholents? I would like that. A woman can be a judge for food tasting, but, a man has to make the cholent. It is a man thing.
#1 has a point. Women generally hate cholent. If ya don’t eat it, don’t judge it, I say!