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Rosh Hashanah Dessert Recipe: Plum Cake from Melissa Clark, with Chozen Ice Cream

For Rosh Hashanah, ditch the traditional honey cake and try Melissa Clark’s plum cake, maybe with a scoop of Chozen’s intensely rich kosher ice cream, on top.  (Mix up your holidays and pick Matzoh Crunch.)
Clark has a new cookbook out–In he Kitchen with A Good Appetite–which I’ll review later this week. Meanwhile, she continues to [...]

From Lukins to Bacon: How Food Has Changed Since the 1980s

The death of Sheila Lukins, the cookbook author and one-time Upper West Side gourmet food shop owner last week, prompted an outpouring of memories about foodways in the 1980s.  Kim Severson of the Times wrote a charming essay in this Sunday’s paper about how Lukins’ chicken Marbella was a dinner party staple of that decade.  [...]

Fairway’s Elevator

It must have been a slow news day yesterday.  The Times did a story on Fairway’s elevator.  For non-New Yorkers, shopping at Fairway is one of those experiences that could only exist in Gotham.  For example, no one living outside of the city would put with the store’s creaking elevator, which slowly transports shoppers– crammed [...]

Madoff Cookbook: Not Too Kosher

The New York Times reported today that while Bernie Madoff was allegedly fleecing clients to the tune of billions, his wife Ruth found time to author a cookbook.
The Great Chefs of America Cook Kosher: Over 175 Recipes From America’s Greatest Restaurants was written in 1996, according to the Times, to expose “kosher palates to new [...]