Tea time, with scones
Photo by CherryBanana via Flickr Creative Commons Barb Gulley, right, and her daughter Rachel Barb Gulley loves tea, especially English tea, the type served at ever-so-proper afternoon gatherings,...
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Challah loaves by Ruth Hartnup via Flickr Creative Commons. When I first started this column almost a year and a half ago, my first recipe was for challah, the braided egg bread used to welcome in the...
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Photo by Ezra Wolfe via Flickr Creative Commons I spent my junior year of college at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. When I went through the gate to the campus, I’d pass by a wizened little man...
View ArticleYemenite Jewish Kubaneh (Sabbath bread)
Kubaneh, Yemenite Jewish Sabbath bread; photo by Su Lin via Flickr Creative Commons. Gabriel Attar was born in 1951 in a dismal immigrant transit camp in Afula, Israel. His parents had been part of the...
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Most supermarkets now carry a wide variety of apples. Photo by Rene Schwietzke via Flickr Creative Commons. Are we in the midst of an apple renaissance? Every time I go to the fruit market, it seems,...
View ArticleRemembering Sinai Hospital: Making muffins, back when work was fun
Sinai Hospital of Detroit What makes a good work team? I’ve been thinking about that lately, because of all the jobs I’ve had, the most fun was when I worked at Sinai Hospital of Detroit in the 1980s....
View ArticleChautauqua: Haven for Learning and Culture
The landmark Miller Bell Tower at Chautauqua My husband and I have become evangelists—for the Chautauqua Institution, a unique and wonderful community in the westernmost county of New York, between...
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