A Brooklyn mother’s crusade to keep her daughter’s beloved banana and Nutella-flavored ice cream on the menu at her local parlor fell just short. The Nanatella flavor that Jocelyn Bogdan campaigned for finished in third place, just two votes behind an upstart flavor called Cookie Au Lait in the online poll at Ample Hills Creamery…
Many years ago, while I was working as a counselor at Beth Tfiloh day camp in the Baltimore suburbs, my favorite camper took a trip to Israel. She came back with the best present a 15-year-old counselor could ever ask for: a jar of chocolate spread. At the time, I’d never encountered such a thing….
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King By Rich Cohen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 288 pages, $27 The cover of Rich Cohen’s engrossing tale of the life of Sam Zemurray shows a banana sprouting from Zemurray’s head like a big curved penis. If you accept that analogy, then…
Today kicks off Bike Month in cities all over the country, including New York. As the weather warms, it’s a great time to celebrate two-wheeled transportation, whether you’re getting some place you have to go (like work) or going someplace fun (like the beach) getting there can be part of the excursion. Of course, once…
This cake is a great way to use up bananas that are over-ripe. • 2.3 cups of flour • 1 cup pecans (broken) • 1 cup dried cranberries • 1 cup candied ginger • 1 tsp. baking powder • .5 tsp. baking soda • .25 tsp salt • 2 cups sugar • 1 cup mashed…
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