Israeli-born Maayan Zilberman has made a career of smashing expectations. Tasty travel slides. Sweet sunglasses. Spicy envelopes. Maayan Zilberman’s “luxury candies” don’t look, feel or taste like any sweets you’ve seen. Under the moniker , the 36-year-old Israeli-born artist has been pleasantly shocking customers at her downtown Manhattan pop-up shop with mind-bending shapes (cassette tapes,…
A film by Thea Glassman about Economy Candy, a 70-year-old wonderland with the distinction of being the oldest Jewish family-owned business on the Lower East Side. Mitchell Cohen stands behind a counter teaming with coconut macaroons, wedges of fruit slices and chocolate-covered grahams — milk, dark and dark with jelly. Nearby his father, Jerry Cohen,…
Photograph by Tami Ganeles-Weiser/The Weiser Kitchen Move over, quinoa? Amaranth, its kissing cousin, is technically kosher for Passover… maybe. Or maybe not. Amaranth is actually a category of about 60 different plant species that grow between five and eight feet tall, produce vibrantly colorful ornamental flowers, sprout copious amounts of wildly colored edible leaves and…
Photograph by Tami Ganeles-Weiser/The Weiser Kitchen The Aztecs didn’t just grow and eat amaranth; they also used it in their religious practices. Today these candies are found all over Mexico. And yes, you can substitute an equal amount of toasted sesame seeds — it is delicious either way. Makes 35 to 40 pieces ¾ cup…
At this time of year I feel like a Jewish Halloween Grinch. My children, 4, 8 and 10, are old enough to know that their mother takes no joy in Halloween. My four year old asked me, upon walking up to someoneʼs house in town, why our house isnʼt decorated for Halloween. I explain, again,…
Coming soon, to a child you love: candy! Lots of it, in heaping bagfuls, and with it the belief that somehow you can and must make a sensible, sensitive, child-centered, adult-led, informed, rational, gentle, crafty, flexible, caring and healthful plan regarding the booty’s lifelong impact on your child’s health, teeth, eating habits, food obsessions and…
