Potpourri

At 8:30pm that evening Shmuel and his wife came to see their apartment. They were thrilled. It was more than perfect.

We must have been carefree and crazy to attempt to make Pesach on our own. We were both from close-knit observant families, all of whom were in America in 1961.

Let's not forget that we come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes.

When my daughters grew up they would go shopping for pocketbooks in my closet. And I would smile every time I saw one of them wearing one of my stock.

The traditional recipes she used throughout our lives brought comfort and love to both our family and strangers alike.

The nuttiness of the sesame adds a lot of depth to the dates and chocolate coating.

My reviewing a doll company and going to their flagship store in Manhattan made me laugh – I am the quintessential tomboy and don’t...

As my husband reminded me as I meticulously folded bags into neat little packages over the last three months to hoard them for future use, the fact that bags will no longer be free in stores doesn’t mean that they won’t be available.

Given the subject matter, it seems appropriate for this cookbook to open with a chapter on food safety since giving your family food poisoning by feeding them spoiled ingredients is definitely something to be avoided.

Rigidity around food, fear and anxiety around eating, purging, restricting, overexercising, and bingeing… those behaviors can happen to people in all size bodies.

I love Lo Mein, but the thought of boiling the noodles in one pan and then sautéing it together in another means a two-pot mess.

New beginnings are not only housing construction, sidewalk renewal, or gas flow.

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So much of our lives revolve around food. In addition to eating our three squares every day, there is a signature dish for every Jewish...

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I may or may not have a slight attachment to my phone, so I love gloves that allow you to easily text and talk.

iCandy is proud to have been recognized by the honor of achieving two Queen’s Awards.

There is something so comforting about a bowl of warm pesto-laden pasta with perfectly cooked salmon on a cold winter night.

The trauma of our son-father kidney transplant has never faded from my memory.

I would say that that oven was 45-years-old when it finally baked its last pan of brownies and was relegated to the great big kitchen in the sky.

The menorahs are polished, the dreidels are ready to make their annual appearance and donuts and latkes seem to be just about everywhere. Yup,...

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Whether it’s hearty soups oozing with seasonal flavors or the scent of chocolate chip cookies wafting through your home, December was made for the kitchen – and thus the perfect season to check out some intriguing new cookbooks.

Can you believe it’s almost Chanukah? I can! Chanukah already came early in our house, when, by accident, my son opened an Amazon box...

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I have had more than a few people tell me that they use their phones to do just about everything except making calls.

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Of course, there was plenty to see that had nothing to do with organic, gluten free, non-GMO and vegan fare.

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