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Recipes How To Avoid Latke Fatigue
Tonight will be the fifth night of Hanukkah, meaning I’m right on schedule. I have entered into the arena of latke fatigue — and perhaps you have to. It’s at this point in the holiday that I have had more than one too many classic, plain potato latkes. Many of them were delicious, made up…
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Recipes Edible Gifts: Infused Oils
The best kind of Hanukkah gifts are those you can make and your friends eat. In this series, we’ll present four sweet and savory ideas to spice up your holiday gift giving for everyone on your list. While fried foods grace the Hanukkah table, perhaps no gift is more appropriate than oil. Nice olive oil,…
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Recipes Edible Gifts: Healthy Recipes in a Jar
The best kind of Hanukkah gifts are those you can make and your friends eat. In this series, we’ll present four sweet and savory ideas to spice up your holiday gift giving for everyone on your list. Holiday food gifts are often sweet, rich, and calorie-laden. While the colder weather calls for comfort food, why…
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Culture A Very Sussman Hanukkah
As anyone who has ever stood sweating and swearing in front of a spitting-hot pan of oil knows, the Hanukkah tradition of making latkes is hard work. It requires skill, patience, and a well-developed sense of humor. Luckily, Max and Eli Sussman, brothers and chefs living and cooking in Brooklyn, have all three — and…
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Recipes Edible Gifts: Gourmet S’mores
The best kind of Hanukkah gifts are those you can make and your friends eat. In this series, we’ll present four sweet and savory ideas to spice up your holiday gift giving for everyone on your list. Every holiday season, I don an apron and crank out huge batches of truffles, granola, chocolate bark and…
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Culture How-To Guide to Hanukkah Gingerbread House
As a finishing touch to my gingerbread house this year, I pressed a tiny white mezuza made out of vanilla taffy onto the doorpost and couldn’t help but smirk. My love of the holiday season and of Jewish tradition had reached new and very sugary peaks as my fingers stuck to the royal icing. During…
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Recipes Thanksgiving Leftovers Get a Shabbat Makeover
With all the cooking that leads up to Thanksgiving — there turkey to prepare, cranberry sauce, all those pies and don’t forget the gravy — no one, not even the most dedicated cooks, wants to exert that energy all over again for Shabbat the following day. But plain leftovers, in the form of a turkey…
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Recipes A Pastrami Sandwich, in Stuffing Form
As cookbook author Melissa Clark says, “Thanksgiving is just one big excuse to eat lots of stuffing.” For me, stuffing is simply a better way to experience the practice of dunking a piece of bread into a bowl of chicken soup. You get more doughy bready goodness, less of a mess, and in my experience,…
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