Deborah R. Prinz
By Deborah R. Prinz
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Food Too hot to bake? Try Yemenite flatbreads
When it gets too hot to bake challah, try these Yemenite breads for Shabbat: lachuch and saluf. Avoid turning on the oven and also skip the braiding. Rooted in the ancient technique of baking breads on stones or over embers, these recipes are updated to use yeast, non-stick pans, and a stovetop. Flavored with ground…
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Food Shavuot’s Seven Heaven Challah
The breathtaking Seven Heaven Challah brings a diversity of Jewish experiences and palates to your festive Shavuot table. A lesser-known Sephardi custom, it mixes together the celebration of the wheat harvest of Shavuot, Chag Hakatzir, (the Harvest Festival) with the customary milk-based foods associated with the revelation of Torah at Mount Sinai. Also called Los…
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Food Tel Aviv’s Best Ice Cream: A Walking Tour
My 21-year old kibbutznik niece values ice cream above rubies. When it comes to ice cream, she is a purist. No add ins. No whipped cream. No toppings. Just the ice cream. In her opinion, ice cream is always worth the money and the calories. When she tipped me off to the “best” ice cream…
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Recipes Patriotic — and Jewish! — Frozen Hot Chocolate
On the 4th of July, which this year falls on the Sabbath, I plan to celebrate the Jewish role of Revolutionary-period chocolate in North America with a homemade, refreshing, frozen hot chocolate. I recommend that you do the same. Drinking chocolate became a very popular substitute for politically incorrect tea in the Colonies around the…
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Food Chocolate + Honey = Rosh Hashanah Perfection
True chocolate lovers like me have long bemoaned the dearth of chocolates that properly symbolized a sweet New Year. Indeed honey and chocolate always seemed to keep a healthy distance from one another. This year — finally! — Rosh Hashanah’s traditional honey meets chocolate for the High Holidays in the form of several new goodies….
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Recipes Chocolate Cake From the Mother of Jewish Chocolatiers
When we slather our mothers with chocolaty tributes on Mother’s Day, we will be stepping onto a chocolate trail pioneered by Jewish mothers before us, notably Rebecca Gomez of the 18th-Century Colonial Period. Related Gomez, along with her husband and son, had an appetite for the chocolate business in Manhattan. After the death of her…
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Recipes Celebrating the Sacher Torte
The young Jewish man who created this beloved confection in 1832 couldn’t have imagined that Americans would one day celebrate National Sacher Torte Day. But we do. At just 16 years old, a Jewish cook’s apprentice named Franz Sacher revolutionized the pastry world with an impromptu creation that came to be known as the Sacher…
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Recipes Peanut Butter Gelt Cookies for Hanukkah
This easy recipe incorporates chocolate Hanukkah gelt and rich peanut-butter cookies. Not only is the cookie delicious with the chocolate, but it provides a great way to feature the gelt. Try to find high-quality gelt made with good chocolate that has few (if any) additives. Using dark chocolate gelt will keep this gluten-free cookie parve….
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