Debbie Prinz
By Debbie Prinz
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Food Decorate Your Sukkah with Bread? The Story of Kaak
When your Yom Kippur break the fast bread becomes your Sukkah decoration, you know that you are looking at _kaak _, Arabic for cookie. These double-baked crunchy mini-rounds have a long shelf life and are generally pareve, they appear at celebratory moments of Sukkot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur break the fast and Shabbat brunch. Easy…
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Food Kaak, or Crunchy Middle Eastern Yeast Biscuits
Prep time: 1 hour Rising time: 2 hours and 20 minutes Baking time: 40 minutes Yield: about 50 rings Adapted from “Encyclopedia of Jewish Food” by Gil Marks INGREDIENTS 1 package or 2 ¼ teaspoons dry yeast 1 ⅓ cups warm water (105-115º F) this includes the ¼ cup used with the yeast mix 1…
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Food The Secrets Of Artisanal Israeli Ice Cream
Sure you can walk into an ice cream shoppe and finagle mini-tastes on a psychedelic plastic spoon. And yes, Ben and Jerry’s offers a factory tour and also hosts an annual free ice cream day in the US. Certainly, wine, beer, and chocolate tastings flood food blogs and calendars. However, the Leichman home in Kibbutz…
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Food Drunk on Chocolate at Purim
Consume a lot of alcohol on Purim. As the Talmud pushes, “A person is obligated to drink on Purim to confuse the difference between the phrases ‘cursed be Haman)’ and ‘blessed be Mordecai.’ Megillah (7b). That would be a lot of drinking and any number of intoxicants could fulfill this mitzvah. This year you may…
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Food Getting Good Chocolate Gelt
Who knew there could be good chocolate Hanukkah gelt? I figured it had to be waxy and tasteless, left in its foil to decorate a festive table rather than my mouth. A lovely audience in New Jersey shared their favorite Jewish chocolate experiences with me recently and mentioned, among other things, chocolate covered matzah and…
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Food Hot Chocolate for Cold Sukkot Nights
This year make room for chocolate in your Sukkot celebration. Sukkot’s theme of openness symbolized by the leafy ceiling and flimsy walls tempts creative approaches to menus, decorations, and customs. Deuteronomy 16:14’s challenge “v’samachta b’chagecha” (to rejoice in the festival) could easily be fulfilled by layering chocolate onto the holiday’s menus. Sukkot’s custom of welcoming…
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