Israelis’ cravings for super fancy Hanukkah donuts are intensifying
Expectations for gourmet sufganiyot are high. So are the prices.
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The donuts are made with vitamin-packed pureed pumpkin and the latkes are lo-carb, yet tasty and crunchy
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Food Homemade jelly doughnuts in minutes are the other Hanukkah miracle
If you’re anything like me, you spent yesterday frantically throwing away pumpkins and hanging up menorah and dreidel banners. With Hanukkah beginning on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel days of the year, there was scarcely time to breathe between holidays, let alone wait for dough to rise. Jewish cooks who have…
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Food Hanukkah’s A Perfect Excuse To Talk ‘Donuts’ With Star Chef
It was thoughtful of the James Beard-Award winning chef Michael Solomonov and his business partner, Steve Cook, to come out with the “Federal Donuts” cookbook close enough to Hanukkah that I could write about it within the context of the holiday. The book, so says its cover, is “the (partially) true, spectacular story” of Philadelphia’s…
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Food How To Get Free Doughnuts (And More Friends) This Friday
Friday is National Donut Day, a fact that was dropped into my consciousness via an email from National Today, which keeps track of “quirky occasions on the cultural calendar,” according to its website. The email, while heralding a delightful day, was also a bit worrying. Apparently a “study” (actually a poll of 1,000 individuals who…
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Fast Forward How ‘Oil Bulbs’ Became Holland’s Hanukkah Treat
Israel has sufganiyot — and Holland has “oil bulbs.” For Jews and others in the Netherlands, the fried dough treats are as ubiquitous here as they are in the Holy Land, JTA reports. Hundreds of food stalls hawk the delicacies known in Dutch as “oliebollen” every year from November to January. “I often don’t bother…
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Recipes 5 Great Spots To Celebrate National Donut Day!
It’s time to celebrate all things hole-y. Today is the first Friday of June, which means it’s National Donut Day. Created in 1938 in Chicago by the Salvation Army, the celebration pays tribute to the men and women who served donuts to soldiers during World War I. We’ve compiled a list of bakeries around the…
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Food Welcome to the Donut Car Wash
Wash ‘n’ Nosh* from the* Jewish Daily Forward *on *Vimeo. An Israeli-owned car wash on the West Side Highway has become the unlikely source of what may be New York’s most delicious donuts. No, the guys scrubbing cars aren’t baking in their spare time; former chef Scott Levine, whose resume includes bygone New York foodie…
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