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Homemade Pita Bread

In the ancient world, bread was usually made by using a type of sourdough starter. A little bit of raw ...

Hamantaschen get all the Purim glory, and rightfully so. These soft triangular cookies can be filled with anything from the ...

This past December I had the pleasure of attending for the first time the annual Latke fest held at the ...

I’m a historian, and a native Texan, and Jewish; I love food and especially food history. So when those interests ...

Do you love food so much that you would wear it around your neck? Or hanging from your ears?If the ...

I feel like I have barely left my apartment building for the past several weeks. Every week has been another ...

My mom was always baking when I was growing up. Nothing complicated, in fact, quite the opposite: leftover slices of ...

Delicious uses for leftover chicken (or other poultry) fat.

If you’ve never lived in the South, you might not be familiar with King Cakes. The brightly colored yellow-green-and-purple treats ...

Tu Bishvat is not the holiday that commemorates the destruction of the temple; that’s Tisha B’Av, though I understand why ...

When I was in Israel this fall, I ended up going to a Sephardic synagogue one Shabbat morning, and served ...

Every January I reflect on the lessons of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and his good friend Dr. Martin Luther King, ...