Hillary Berkowitz Nussbaum
By Hillary Berkowitz Nussbaum
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Recipes Putting the Dairy Back in Dessert
For Shavuot (or any dairy meal), a dessert that gets its pleasantly tangy taste from sour cream. Here’s the recipe: It seems to be an unwritten rule in New York City that every supermarket must exist in its own little cell-service dead zone. Perhaps it’s intentional, to discourage comparison shopping — maybe I’ll walk out…
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Recipes Russian Sour Cream Coffee Cake
At Shavout, the author celebrates the break from pareve baking with dairy desserts like this cake, which gets its tang from sour cream. Read her story: . Related Batter: 2 cups sugar 1 cup butter 4 eggs 3 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 3 teaspoons baking powder 2 cups sour cream 2 teaspoons lemon…
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Recipes Cooking as Catharsis
Thinkstock As a college freshman, feeling the pressure of my first ever round of finals, and with no kitchen or supplies of any kind, I found myself yearning to bake. It was a distracting, clawing desire, pulling at the edges of my attention as I struggled in vain to study Rousseau or economic specialization or…
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Recipes Stress-Relieving Pumpkin Challah
Photograph by Hillary Berkowitz Nussbaum It’s a stunningly simple way to a feel a sense of accomplishment and renewal — pick a recipe and execute it. It’s an exercise in presence, in clearing your mind and committing fully to the task at hand. It’s meditative. Cathartic. Next time you’re feeling restless or anxious, pressured or…
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Food My Great (Losing) Cook-Off With the In-Laws
Thinkstock by Getty Images My in-laws and I are in the middle of an all-out competition, a head-to-head contest that has been raging for years, since my husband and I started dating. What are we competing over? Culinary supremacy. They’re winning handily, and they don’t even know it. In fact, they’d be shocked to know…
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Food Truce Achieved Through Cheesecake
Photograph by Hillary Berkowitz Nussbaum I’ve mastered my family’s desserts, from the flourless chocolate roll to the sour cream coffee cake, but my husband’s favorite — cheesecake — always escaped me. I couldn’t let it go, and finally mastered it by sticking to my new strategy: Rather than tackling the tried-and-true, I put my own…
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Life My Jewish Wedding Felt Like an Intermarriage
I was supposed to be a low-maintenance bride. I am usually “the easygoing one.” Our florist would disagree. As I stood in front of his 20 foot refrigerator and pointed to every type of flower, telling him which to put in our arrangements, and which should, under no circumstances , even come near our venue,…
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