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Food Did Jews name this classic Italian cookie?
When the Italian bakery and cafe Il Fornaio opened its first American branch in San Francisco, I was hired as a cookie baker. The night before my first day on the job, I tried my first pot brownie, and then, rookie mistake, my second. I spent the night in a paranoid wakefulness, arrived at work…
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Food Ukrainian rugelach are the cookie you should be making now
The historian Timothy Snyder called them the “bloodlands:” the region including Russia and Ukraine that gave us the massive killing fields of Stalin and Hitler, and that now gives us Russia’s vicious war. But that same span of earth has also yielded, in quieter times, a bounty of wheat, milk, fruit and vegetables that all…
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Food Better-than-honey cake Italian honey cookies
I’m not ashamed to admit that outside our kosher home, I don’t just eat kosher food. But admitting I don’t really like popular Jewish foods— that’s kind of embarrassing. Here’s my short list of the foods of my People that I’d be fine living without: pickled herring, chopped liver, matzo brei, sweet kugel and honey…
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Food Meet The Healthy Kosher Cookie Queen
Chocolate chip cookies are not exactly synonymous with health, but when you talk about Sweet Loren’s, the woman-owned, nationally distributed cookie dough company, health is exactly what you’re talking about. Growing up in New York, Loren Brill was always interested in health and wellness. Then tragedy struck. “Right after I graduated college I got sick…
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Food Yotam Ottolenghi’s New Dessert Book Has The ‘Sweet’ Smell Of Success
A new book by Yotam Ottolenghi is cause for celebration. And when the book in question, from the author of such wildly popular cookbooks as “Plenty” and “Jerusalem,” comes out with a tome devoted entirely to dessert, well, it almost feels like we should declare a holiday. Not a national one, mind you, but one…
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Fast Forward WATCH: In Minnesota, Kosher Cookies Served By The Bucket
Kosher fair fare? It sounds unlikely, but at the Minnesota State Fair, family owned area business Sweet Martha’s serves warm cookies by the bucket and ice cold milk to hungry visitors. Area chef and TV personality Andrew Zimmern says the cookies are so good, he eats “about a bucket and a half a day.” Watch:
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