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Thanksgiving Recipe: Sweet Potatoes But Hold the Marshmallows Please

Sweet Potatoes, a New Way for Thanksgiving
by Chef Renee Marton
I’ve never been a fan of sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows, although I know many people love them.
Here’s a sweet potato recipe that might just  make you dump that bag of marshmallows. It’s adapted from a recipe by June restaurant’s Chef Vuoc Long in Seattle. This [...]

July 4 Recipe: Red, White and Blue Soup

July 4 recipe: Red, White, and Blue Soup. Easy and tasty.

Passover Recipe: Easy Italian-Ashkenazi Matzoh Ball Soup

Passover Italian-Ashkenazi Chicken-Matza Ball Soup
Italian matzoh ball soup??

This unusual recipe, combining the Sepharidic and Ashkenazi traditions—Italian and Ashkenazi Chicken-Matza Ball Soup—comes, says Chef Renee, from a wonderful cookbook called The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews, by Edda Servi Machlin, first published in 1981.
Explains Chef Renee Marton: “The recipe is a combination of Italian Passover [...]

In Time for Your Passover Seder: Rabbi Mints Sold on Upper West Side

What does it take for a Rabbi and an ad man and an entrepreneur to create a new product? Ad man Richard Kirshenbaum, entrepreneur David Mitchell and Rabbi Adam Mintz (get it???) of Congregation Rayim Ahuvim in New York City launched kosher Rabbi Mints March 21 just in time for the Passover season with its [...]

St. Patrick’s Day Corned Beef and Cabbage Recipe

“What’s more Irish than a traditional recipe for corned beef and cabbage?” asks Allrecipes.com. For St. Patrick’s Day, you can’t get more Irish than this hearty dish.
But according to 97 Orchard Street by Jane Ziegelman, corned beef and cabbage traveled to New York with the Dutch settlers. Many European countries developed their own variations. But [...]