Chrissy Teigen made her first Shabbat dinner with chicken soup, challah, and a babka from Trader Joe's
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Rachel Askinasi
Jan 20, 2021, 04:48 IST
Chrissy Teigen made Shabbat dinner for her family and friends.Charley Gallay/Getty Images for GQ
Chrissy Teigen hosted her first Shabbat dinner on Friday.
She made chicken soup, chicken, kugel, and challah, and bought babka from Trader Joe's.
Some followers are criticizing Teigen for wearing a headscarf and a face jewel they say looks like a bindi.
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Chrissy Teigen shared a photo of her first Shabbat dinner on Friday.
The celebrity and cookbook author made a full spread for her friends and shared the menu on Twitter.
Teigen made chicken soup, another chicken dish, kugel, and challah. Also on the menu was a chocolate babka she bought from Trader Joe's at the recommendation of her friends.
Teigen and Sussman previously celebrated Hanukkah together in December. "We had the most beautiful night full of gut laughing, 1000 hour brisket and latkes both eaten and Ubered around the city," the mother of two wrote of her first Hanukkah celebration on Instagram at the time.
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And Teigen's Shabbat dinner appears to have been just as elaborate as her family's Hanukkah meal.
The famous home cook -who recently revealed that she likes having multiple ovens in her kitchen for efficiency's sake - wrote of her Shabbat feast, "Wow I could never do this every Friday but it was beautiful!"
She shared a photo of herself in the kitchen sporting a lace scarf on her head, which some fans recognized as Jewish tradition.
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Shabbat is Judaism's day of rest
In the Jewish religion, Shabbat is a weekly day of rest beginning at sundown on Friday and ending after the sun has set on Saturday.
There are many ways to celebrate depending on the level of religious involvement the host observes. At a Shabbat dinner, guests can expect to come together for the meal and prayers that welcome in the day. (Teigen didn't mention whether she lit Shabbat candles or recited any prayers.)
In response to some criticism Teigen received for wearing the lace headscarf, the celebrity shared that it "would have been worn by my *Jewish* grandmother." According to Kveller, Teigen's paternal grandmother was a descendant of Jews from Germany.
Some fans also criticized the supermodel for wearing a diamond-shaped jewel between her eyebrows they say resembles a bindi, which traditionally represents the idea of a third eye or sixth chakra in Hinduism.
After clarifying that the crystal was not meant to act as a bindi, but that it is part of a new look she's been sporting recently, she directed fans back to her Instagram page where she has several photos of herself wearing jewels on her face.
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