Jo Ann Gardner
By Jo Ann Gardner
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Recipes Roast Chicken and Corn in Jigs’ Sukkah
When I was growing up in the 1950s, none of my friends had a sukkah in the backyard and I do not recall one at our synagogue. In fact, I do not recall a single thing about the holiday of Sukkot from my childhood. Like many families of my generation with a token association to…
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Recipes A Tribute to Grandma’s Sweets for the New Year
Honey cake (above) and teiglach were the highlight of visits to an otherwise distant grandmother. Recipes are below. It would be dishonest to claim for myself those warm memories so rich in Yiddishkeit that are prominently featured in the familiar genre known as Jewish nostalgia. Like the writers of those stories and memoirs, I, too,…
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Recipes Making Your Own Kosher Dills
There’s nothing like crunching into a kosher dill pickle in the heat of the summer. If you’re a pickle fan, you probably know which local deli has the best ones and which restaurant routinely sets a bowl of them on the table, even before you’ve even ordered. But have you ever made your own? With…
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Food Revisiting ‘A Treasure For My Daughter’
A Canadian classic, now in its 14th printing, offers basic information about Judaism, along with . What do you do when you’re stranded on a desert island and one day you remember you’re Jewish? It’s been so long since you observed anything Jewish that you have only a vague idea how to organize, or re-organize,…
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Food Late-Season Strawberries for Shabbat
The last of the season’s local strawberries at a New York farmers’ market this week. Strawberries are on my mind, even though the season is winding down. Beautiful in form and color with a sweet, mouth-watering aroma, they are irresistible and I am still picking the last of them. They do not have a specifically…
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Recipes 3 Strawberry-Scented Cakes
Cheesecake with strawberry glaze is just one of the great way to use local summer strawberries. (You’ll also find recipes for a quick cocoa spice cake with fresh strawberry frosting and an orange chiffon cake with strawberry sauce below.) Read: Make: Shabbat Brunch With Strawberries Nell’s Company Cheesecake With Strawberry Glaze Our daughter, the acknowledged…
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Recipes Shabbat Brunch With Strawberries
Recipe suggestions for Shabbat Saturday breakfast or brunch include strawberry borscht (below) and the author’s world’s best strawberry jam. Read: Make: 3 Strawberry-Scented Cakes for Shabbat You really ought to make a small amount of the World’s Best Strawberry Jam to experience what you’ve been missing. This is produced without the aid of commercial pectin,…
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Food A Rhubarb-Season Reminiscence — My Lunch With Miriam Rothschild
Over a spring lunch complete with fine wine, the author tells her illustrious hostess plucked from the garden. It was when we operated a back country farm on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia that I’d read an article about Miriam Rothschild’s interest in Israeli wildflowers. She grew them in her greenhouses and gardens and…
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