Gayle L. Squires
By Gayle L. Squires
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Recipes Fig Sorbet for Rosh Hashanah
Biting into a fresh fig in Sicily, the author found herself mumbling a shehecheyanu — and was inspired to create this refreshing dessert. Until recently, what little I knew about Sicily came from Sophia Petrillo’s stories on “The Golden Girls.” Spending a week at the Anna Tasca Lanza cooking school last June, though, gave me…
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Recipes ‘Back-Pocket’ Plum Cake for Holidays — or Anytime
As the Jewish holidays approach — especially if there’s a lot of entertaining in your future — it’s good to have a few quick, fail-safe, festive dishes in your repertoire. I call them back-pocket recipes. I have one for brisket (cover with tomatoes and onions; cook low and slow for 4 hours) and one for…
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Recipes Plum Cake With Lime and Rose
This simple, versatile recipe makes the most of summer plums. In the fall, consider swapping in apples and adding a sprinkle of cinnamon, replacing the rose water with vanilla and omitting the zest. This recipe was adapted from Marian Burros’ plum torte, published in the New York Times. I replaced the butter with oil to…
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Recipes Paris-Inspired Spicy Carrot Salad
A splendid Parisian summer, captured in a bowl of spicy shredded carrots. Say Paris, and most people envision the Eiffel tower, a pyramid of colorful macarons, a bicycle ride with a baguette poking out of the front basket. But Paris for me is captured in a bowl of spicy shredded carrots. A cross between traditional…
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Food A Stirring Memoir, With Recipes
The that inspired Jessica Fechtor’s blog, Sweet Amandine, next to a copy of her new memoir, “Stir.” For a while, Jessica Fechtor — author of the just-published memoir “Stir: My Broken Brain and Meals That Brought Me Home” — was two people to me. The first was the unnamed graduate student, part of the Jewish…
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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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Recipes Mouthwatering Orange-Scented Macaroons
Photographs by Gayle L. Squires The Passover tradition that’s been handed down from generation to generation in my family is the luxury of a catered Seder. But we’ve always supplemented the cookie and cake plate with extra desserts. At my grandparents’ table, it was Bubbe’s layered and fruit-studded gelatin mold. At my aunt’s, a large…
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Recipes Harissa Chili to Warm the Home
The author’s Harissa Chili, inspired by the recipe in Einat Admony’s “Balaboosta” cookbook. Photograph by Gayle L. Squires. Having become a well-practiced apartment mover over the past few years, I’ve learned that the best way — literally and figuratively — to warm your house is to cook and then share with friends. Sure, the last…
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