During the pandemic, chef and social entrepreneur David Hertz started Solidarity Kitchens, a project to enable chefs to use their own kitchens to prepare meals for Brazil’s most vulnerable. (Edipo Ferraz via JTA)

Brazilian Chef David Hertz Uses Food to Bring about Social Change

David Hertz’s entire adult life has been focused on food. But what interests this Jewish chef from Brazil most is using food as a tool to alleviate poverty and address social injustice.

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Amy Simon: "If I had a dollar for every time [a customer] said, ‘My grandmother did it this way’ or ‘We love matzah balls’ or ‘You have kishke this year?’” (Provided photo)

Simon Says: Amy Simon of Eddie’s of Roland Park Offers Tips for Your Passover Seder

This year, Eddie’s — owned and operated by the Cohen family for nearly eight decades — is offering three Pesach dinner packages, each with a different main course.

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