Rabbi Deborah Prinz
By Rabbi Deborah Prinz
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Food Instead of cake, try wedding bread
Weddings this summer sure are different. Cocktail hour? Not likely. Dancing? Probably not. Friends and family? Perhaps a very few. With the pandemic limiting celebrations this year, perhaps it’s time to turn to the comforting traditions of Jewish bridal breads. The custom of baking a special wedding bread took root in Baghdad, Eastern Europe, Ethiopia,…
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Recipes Magnificent Chocolate Matzo Masterpieces
In a small shop in Roswell, Georgia, not far from Atlanta, Russian immigrant Natalya Shapiro paints matzo with stunning chocolate. As a small child in Belaya Tserkov, in Ukraine, she used to visit her grandparents often. Her grandfather was a baker, and her grandmother baked matzo throughout the year, storing it in a special bag…
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Food 10 Very Best Chocolate Babkas For Valentine’s Day
As Valentine’s Day approaches, my thoughts turn to chocolate (of course). Chocolate babka would be a great treat for a romantic dinner. Selecting the best chocolate babka for the celebration is easier now, since I recently attended a chocolate-babka marathon tasting — a chocolate babkathon. Related The only date when the self-appointed, chocolate-babka gluttons could…
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Food Chocolate-Covered Jalapeños? It’s Not Bubbe’s Chocolate Anymore
When her new chocolate company needed a name, Sara Meyer and her husband, Corey, decided to connect it to his maternal grandmother — Faigele/Faigy/Fay, meaning little bird in Yiddish — and her love of chocolate. Both are memorialized in the name they came up with: Little Bird. While Fay usually kept several boxes of random…
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Recipes That Time Jews Smuggled Chocolate to France — and a Recipe for Basque Chocolate Cake
I happened into a chocolate shop, L’Atelier du Chocolat de Bayonne in Paris in 2016 with my husband. As we were tasting and browsing, I randomly picked up a company brochure. In my high school French, I slowly deciphered this astonishing statement: À Bayonne l’origine de la fabrication et de la consommation du chocolat semble…
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