A mom in St. Louis had a say in the results of Hazon Colorado’s Best of the West Kugel contest. Nancy Green’s daughter, Hannah Green, a student at the University of Denver, was attending the Rocky Mountain Jewish Food Summit in Boulder on Sunday. And Hannah was so excited about being a kugel judge that…
There is no shortage of home cooking blogs out there. But Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen, a relate-ably personal, yet eloquent blog, is one of the lucky few to have gained a large and loyal following. In fact, it’s her blog’s popularity — she has about 4 million unique visitors a month — that led Perelman…
When I was in second grade in Syosset, New York, my class did a unit on “ethnic” foods. We celebrated with a potluck party: Every kid brought in a dish that represented their family background. I brought noodle kugel. To the best of my knowledge, the only ethnicity that I had was Jewish. I knew…
Philadelphia – May, 1986. I’m walking down my college’s main thoroughfare, having just finished the very final final exam of my senior year. It’s late afternoon, and as I head toward my off-campus apartment, I come upon a street vendor selling shiny, green Granny Smith apples. I hand the man a quarter, and wipe the…
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Yield: 12 servings 6 small sweet potatoes, grated 3 apples, peeled, cored, and grated 1 cup raisins 1 cup brown rice flour – on Passover use whole wheat matzo meal 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon sea salt 1 and 1/2 cups water Topping 1 and 1/2 cups raw pecan halves, chopped 2 tablespoons maple…
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