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A Chef who takes the calories out of comfort foods
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March 7, 2012
March 7, 2012
Latke v. Hammantaschen Debate: The Solution is Salty-Sweet Caramel Hammentaschen
As a pastry chef who must spend her days tasting all things sweet, what I really want at the end of the day are potato chips.
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December 22, 2011
December 22, 2011
Designer Doughnuts
One of the hardships of my life as a pastry chef/teacher/writer is that I go to Paris every few years to do research. I want to
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November 1, 2011
November 1, 2011
Stressed is desserts spelled backwards
That should be the motto for competing on a dessert competition show. After I found out that I had a place on Sweet Genius, and right
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September 9, 2011
September 9, 2011
Summer of the Sandwich – Challah Pita
At every speaking or baking event I have done over the past year, the question I hear over and over is “why are you not obese
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July 21, 2011
July 21, 2011
A Dessert for Everyone
Every once in a while, I am reminded that baking is my destiny. In May it was teaching a cooking class in my grandparents’ former house
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June 3, 2011
June 3, 2011
From Pie to Rabbi: The return to my grandmother’s kitchen
A few months ago, I received an email from Brochi, of the Chabad of Sea Gate synagogue, Brooklyn, asking me to do a baking demonstration. She had
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May 17, 2011
May 17, 2011
Hot Dogs and Soufflé
I ate my last hot dog at the Kosher stand at Yankee Stadium in 2009. Hot dogs and I have a strained relationship. While growing up in
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April 4, 2011
April 4, 2011
Farfel and Fortitude – Top Ten Passover Survival Tips
Even for experienced bakers, Passover is the greatest annual challenge.Passover bakers cannot use flour, yeast or even pure vanilla. Very few bakeries make kosher for Passover
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March 16, 2011
March 16, 2011
A Rainbow of Hamentaschen
For most of my life, I had no love for hamentaschen, the triangle-shaped filled cookies eaten on the Jewish holiday of Purim. I always found the
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