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Granola Baked Apples for Rosh Hashanah Breakfast
Here’s the thing about baked apples: They are kind of a terrible dessert. While certainly delicious, the homey, Jewish grandmother-approved confection lacks a certain gravitas needed to convince very full people to make room for a few bites of something more. They just can’t compete with a lineup of pies, cookies and cake. But here’s…
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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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A Ravishing Meatless Menu for Rosh Hashanah
This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a new cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking her guests what they think of the results. She recently cooked her way through “The Seasonal Jewish Kitchen: A Fresh Take on Tradition,” by Amelia Saltsman. With an Iraqi…
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Recipes Autumn Slaw With Beets, Carrots and Kohlrabi
Most Americans don’t know what to do with kohlrabi, a Martian spacecraft–lookalike tuber that offers a crisp nutlike flavor reminiscent of water chestnuts. In Israel, it is a popular addition to salads and pickled vegetable mixes. This is my cousin Michal Brayer’s favorite salad, and now one of mine, too. This refreshing magenta-and-orange slaw will…
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Recipes Apple, Pear and Concord Grape Galette
This free-form rustic autumn tart is mellow with the floral aromas of apples and juicy pears. Instead of raisins, use fresh Concord grapes to add a burst of color and flavor. Rye flour adds a dusky, earthy note to the pastry, perfect for autumn and winter baking. If you don’t have rye flour, whole wheat…
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Tasty Tale of a Berkeley Food Peddler
Last December, Julia Braun found herself teaching a workshop at a Jewish food conference on how to use shmaltz — how to use it in a knish, how to make chopped liver with shmaltz and gribenes — when she had her aha moment. “I had this sense of ‘Yes, this is it.’ It came over…
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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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Bullets and Bagels and All the Weekly Dish
We’re almost afraid to write about — a gun-and-nosh club founded by L.A. mohel Fred Kogen — but we’ll report and you decide. “Our premise is that there are Jews who either enjoy shooting sports or who have an interest in trying to shoot a firearm, but may feel overwhelmed or intimidated,” declares the group’s…
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5 Ben and Jerry’s Flavors to Sweeten the Iran Deal
While we wait for senators to make up their minds on the Iran Deal, two important Jews have announced their opinion on it. , have announced their support for the controversial deal. The two ice cream mavens wrote in an email newsletter from the liberal nonprofit policy group MoveOn last Wednesday: “This agreement is the…
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When Breakfast Is Main Course at Summer Camp
I never went to Jewish summer camp as a kid, and I regret it. Aside from capture the flag games, color war and lake swimming, I missed out on those critical opportunities for Jewish community bonding and identity forging that can only happen around a blazing campfire, or during a hike up a craggy mountain….
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