Could this be the most underrated ingredient in all of Jewish cooking?
An ode to the sweet, compact and versatile raisin — plus a scrumptious recipe for tagliatelle with chicken, raisins and pignoli
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Food Dorie Greenspan’s Rugelach with Four Fillings
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Food How I learned to make babka and rugelach from the master, Dorie Greenspan
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Recipes Mindy Segal’s ‘Cookie Love’
from a new cookbook devoted entirely to cookies. “Everyone has a cookie recipe, everyone’s got a cookie story,” James Beard Award-winning chef Mindy Segal explained when I ask her about the cover of ‘Cookie Love,’ her recently published cookbook. The double chocolate cookies doused with warming spices, craggy with golden toasted marshmallow and sprinkled with…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Brisket Lab; Hanukkah Recipes
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