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Culture How an Okie Named Woody Guthrie Became Our Best Hanukkah Tunesmith
For 20 years, I was a pop music critic. Every year as the calendar wound down, here came one of music journalism’s over-roasted chestnuts: the annual roundup of new Christmas albums. I never groaned. I’m one of those Christmas music people. As soon as the Thanksgiving turkey is down my gullet, I’m trotting out the…
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Food Chef Todd Ginsberg’s Latke Secrets Revealed!
We pried potato pancake preferences from a few of our favorite chefs around the country — and compiled them into a tell-all to help you make the best latkes of your life. Chef Todd Ginsberg Restaurant The General Muir, Atlanta Secret ingredient? The secret ingredient is the most obvious ingredient. It’s all about the potato….
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Food NY Shuk Offers Israeli Condiments and Cooking Classes to Give — or Take
Since moving to Brooklyn from Israel a little over four years ago, Ron and Leetal Arazi have dedicated themselves to sharing the Middle Eastern and North African foods they grew up with through their artisanal company New York Shuk. They met in the kitchen of a Tel Aviv restaurant — he at the meat station;…
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Recipes The Perfect Chrismukkah Cookie
The portmanteau word “Chrismukkah” might have been coined in the early aughts, but this is the first year in recent memory that the Christian and Jewish winter holidays perfectly align. The first night of Hanukkah falls on Christmas Eve, and by the time the final eight candles have dripped down the menorah branches, the ball…
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Recipes Tahini Sandwich Cookies With Tahini-Cream Cheese Frosting
Back in high school, I loved Nutter Butters so much I used to doodle little patterns of their peanut-shaped cookie outsides into the margins of my notebooks. So here’s my paean to the cookies of my youth, which I’ve ushered into maturity with tahini. Related A large part of the motivation for this cookie was…
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Community What I Told My 4-Year-Old Daughter When She Asked for a Christmas Tree
We make a left out of our apartment and walk on Sixth Avenue, where a wide selection of pine trees are available for purchase. “I want a Christmas tree,” says Ravi, my 4-year-old. “What’s Christmas?” I ask. “I don’t know,” Ravi says. “I like the lights.” Why shouldn’t she want a tree? Pine trees especially…
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Opinion Why I Detest Hanukkah, and Why All Right Minded Jews Should Too
Even a curmudgeon couldn’t hate Hanukkah, right? A miracle of light in the winter? The little festival that could? But if you look at it closer, it’s the little festival that could… could do what? Could celebrate the victory of fundamentalist zealots over a tolerant cosmopolitan Empire, slaughtering co-religionists on the way? Could encourage the…
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Food 5 Easy Recipes To Satisfy Your Christmas Craving for Chinese Food
(JTA) — The first night of Hanukkah falls on Dec. 24 this year, but don’t fret: You don’t have to choose between the family Hanukkah party and the time-honored tradition of eating Chinese food on Christmas Eve. Instead, why not take advantage of this calendrical coincidence and embrace both customs? We’ve compiled some delicious, Chinese-inspired dishes…
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