Potpourri

Half the people you ask want something substantial and homemade that they can eat for lunch, and half the people want candy, because it’s shelf stable, and, no offense, certified kosher.

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Another thing that really makes me nuts is when mishloach manos comes arranged in a lovely bowl or container, which then gets totally destroyed when you try to remove its contents.

Drawing on her own years of experience in the food business, she worked on balancing flavors and textures, coming up with two different products that bear her name and work equally well as a recipe component or just mixed with water.

Since when do magnets make noise?

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With so many great recipes paired and stunning pictures you may just find yourself tempted to lick the pages of ESSR.

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In a world where it seems as if some cookbook authors deliberately go looking for obscure ingredients that none of us own, Mia Adler Ozair’s Cook, Pray, Eat Kosher is a breath of fresh air.

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I can’t forget how excited I was when the newspaper came and I smashed my silly putty onto the comics and slowly rolled it back to see the picture on my Silly Putty.

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A quick look at margarine-less chocolate chip cookies offers a good look at what Pascal and Overtime Cook are all about.

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To me, nothing is more magical than stepping off a plane in the middle of the winter and finding myself someplace sunny, with a suitcase full of warm weather essentials.

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New cookbooks seem to magically materialize on my doorstep begging to be read (and hopefully praised on these page) and, while many are lovely...

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What is it about the lengthy darkness that calls to me?

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Fifty-five years in Israel is reason to celebrate.

Women, on the other hand, are not really supposed to learn a lot of Gemara, because that’s like giving a soldier a loaded weapon.

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