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Hanukkah Gelt’s Dark (Chocolate) Backstory
Buying fair trade chocolate — in the form of gelt, or even sufganiyot — makes particular sense on Hanukkah, when we celebrate freedom from tyranny. Photo courtesy of Ilana Schatz. When I first learned about the issue of trafficked child labor in cocoa fields, I immediately thought of the gelt that I’ve eaten every Hanukkah…
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Sweet Chocolate-Filled Sufganiyot
Photograph courtesy of Ilana Schatz On Hanukkah, chocolate need not be confined to gelt. After tasting one of these warm, chocolate-filled sufganiyot, you won’t want to return to the old jelly-filled standard. Use fair trade chocolate to ensure the freedom of cocoa workers on the holiday that celebrates the Maccabees’ fight against oppression. ¾ cup…
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Recipes Peanut Butter Gelt Cookies for Hanukkah
This easy recipe incorporates chocolate Hanukkah gelt and rich peanut-butter cookies. Not only is the cookie delicious with the chocolate, but it provides a great way to feature the gelt. Try to find high-quality gelt made with good chocolate that has few (if any) additives. Using dark chocolate gelt will keep this gluten-free cookie parve….
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Recipes Keeping Up with the Pollans
Foodie Family: The Pollan women are (from left to right) sisters Dana, Tracy and Lori and their mother, Corky. Photograph by John Kernick. The members of my family are, for the most part, smart, accomplished, attractive and close to one another. I’ve always been pretty keen on them. But now that I have a window…
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Recipes Citrus-Roasted Chicken with Grand Marnier
Photograph by Quentin Bacon This dish is such a stunner and a crowd pleaser. The depth of the Grand Marnier with the zestiness of the citrus creates the most amazing flavor. Serves 4 ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil ¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice ¼ cup fresh honey tangerine (Murcott…
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Grandma Mary’s Mandelbrot Cookies
Photograph by John Kernick This is our favorite recipe of our grandmother’s and the first one she taught us to make. Yiddish for “almond bread,” mandelbrot is the Jewish version of biscotti. Because these cookies are twice-baked, they are crisp and crunchy — and highly addictive. Delicious served with coffee, tea and dessert wine for…
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8 Nights of Food Gifts: He’Brew Gift Pack
Photograph by Jon Wunder Gift No. 3 The holiday season is upon us, which for many means a time of social gatherings, family, friends and traditions both religious and secular. This time of year brings me back to my youth, when I believed December was the time the Jews celebrated Hanukkah as well as Passover…
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8 Nights of Food Gifts: Olive Oil Offerings
For a slick Hanukkah gift, think oil. Sprayer and cruet images courtesy of Williams-Sonoma Gift No. 2 What would Hanukkah be without oil? A very sad celebration of dry doughnuts, tasteless latkes and darkness, I’m sure. This season, celebrate one of the eight days of light with the gift of oil — in three forms….
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Obama Chef Sam Kass to Leave the White House
White House chef Sam Kass is packing up his knives and heading to New York to be with his bride. The White House announced today that Sam Kass — private chef to the Obamas, senior policy advisor on nutrition policy and executive director of the first lady’s Let’s Move! Initiative — has resigned. Kass, 34,…
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Recipes Time to Make the Doughnuts
On the first night of Hanukkah, we say a shehecheyanu prayer to commemorate the first night of the holiday and the lighting of the menorah candles. But a few years ago, I said shehecheyanu on the night before the first night of Hanukkah to commemorate a first for me: I fried. An Israeli friend had…
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Recipes Splendid Sufganiyot, Step by Step
You can fill these doughnuts with whatever you’d like — here I used raspberry jam. We cut the dough with a drinking glass, which made a dozen *sufganiyot. Obviously the number of sufganiyot will depend on the size of your glass.* 2 packets (2 tablespoons) dry yeast ¾ cup warm water 1 cup whole milk…
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