Passover starts tomorrow (Monday) night, beginning a week of probably the most food-centric holiday on the Jewish calendar. To mark the passing of our ancestors from bondage to freedom, and the haste in which that was accomplished (read your Exodus, people… No, the Bible, not the Leon Uris novel!), we are prohibited from…
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PhotoHunt: Daily & Purim Hamantaschen
The PhotoHunt theme this week is “Daily” Many people joke that, if you look at a Jewish calendar, it almost seems as if there’s some sort of holiday Daily. It does seem that way sometimes! For instance, tomorrow we celebrate the holiday of Purim. Purim celebrates the story told in the Old Testament Book of…
The 12 Days of Cookies: Day 1 & World AIDS Day
I was flattered to be invited to join a group of bloggers in a challenge to bake – and write about – 12 different holiday cookies in 12 days. These first 12 days of December, to be precise. The theme this year is the 2008 Bon Appétit Holiday Cookie-a-Day collection. Out of the 31 cookies…
