April 5, 2012
There aren’t too many addictive Passover treats. On Chanukah I love my doughnuts and on Shavuot, I am a slave to my cheesecake, scooping up a […]
March 16, 2012
Every Friday, gorgeous Italian Jewish women and men line up to buy this hideous dessert. What is the fuss all about? Recently I visited Rome and, […]
March 7, 2012
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. […]
December 22, 2011
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 […]
November 1, 2011
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 […]
September 9, 2011
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 […]
July 21, 2011
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 […]
June 3, 2011
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 […]
May 17, 2011
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 […]
