How a honey sommelier could make your Rosh Hashanah even sweeter
Honey sommeliers can identify subtle notes to enhance your New Year's sweetness
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Food This year, Americans and Israelis will be consuming 390 million pounds of this beloved Jewish ingredient
Turns out there's a very good reason why the word 'honey' appears 55 times in the Hebrew Bible
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Recipes Apple Olive Oil Cake
For holidays, good days, and days that can be made better with a little cake, this upside-down apple cake made with silan starts with a few key steps and emerges from the oven as shiny, moist, and just-sweet-enough glory. The cake is beautiful and looks as good as it tastes. Category: Dessert Servings: 8 Ingredients…
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Recipes This Rosh Hashanah, let your honey be silan — date syrup
This Rosh Hashanah, eat like an ancient Israelite. Skip the bees’ honey and go for silan, a thick syrup made from dates that has been around the Middle East for millennia. Silan is made from the fruit of the towering date palm trees that are mentioned in the Bible and are often depicted in Jewish…
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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 Just in time for Rosh Hashanah, mead makes a comeback
Mead is back. Rachel Lipman, a fifth-generation winemaker at Loew Vineyards, believes that the honey wine’s heyday is just around the corner. It’s a “very underrated” beverage, said Lipman, at the Mount Airy, Maryland winery owned by her grandfather Bill Loew. Before World War II, Lvov (formerly part of Poland, currently now part of Ukraine)…
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Yiddish World WATCH: A Rosh Hashanah treat – ginger candy and honey balls
Jews make teiglach, small knots of dough boiled in honey, to wish each other a sweet new year
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The Schmooze 5 Honey-Based Beauty Products To Ring In The Jewish New Year
The Jewish New Year brings with it many things — things like fall, and crunchy leaves and crisp air that provides a welcome, cooling respite from summer heat. But it also brings something particularly sweet and heavenly to mind, something that in many ways is a defining factor of the holy day. We’re talking about,…
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