Rinku Bhattacharya

The Bengali Five Spice Chronicle: Rinku Bhattacharya.

Rinku Bhattacharya's cookbook is Beautiful! Reading - yes, reading, that's how intriguing and exciting it is - Rinku Bhattacharya's cookbook, The Bengali Five Spice Chronicle is to me the next best thing to a stroll through, say, Machane Yehuda,…
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Latkas Worldwide Recipes!

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Kosherfest 2012

Kosherfest 2012 Standout New Products

Kosherfest 2012 was great fun this year! I and quite a few others marveled at how the staff at Kosherfest 2012 pulled off the whole show with their hands often tied behind their backs, so soon after Hurricane Sandy, which crippled many warehouses…
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Mahia (Eau de Vie) Nahmias et Fils.

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Kosher by Design Cooking coach

Kosher by Design Cooking Coach: Susie Fishbein

Kosher by Design Cooking Coach The only thing that would be more delicious than admiring Susie Fishbein's latest cookbook 'Kosher by Design Cooking Coach' with its lavish display of gorgeous pictures would be to roll up your sleeves, open the…
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The Delicious World of Plums. Recipes

Plums, plums, plums! I get my fill of plums every summer while they are plentiful and linger until late October. Early November, and they are still there: Bring some plums home while they last! The variety of plums I love is the long, dark,…
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Hurricane sandy

Hurricane Sandy: Bunking in Style

Hurricane Sandy! We always tell ourselves, as soon as we can set aside a couple days, we will put order in those photo albums, match - or dispose of - those missing socks, write our friends, make play dates. Like so many others, I have finally…
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French-LevanaCooks

French Language: French Speaking Friends Only!

French Language: dreamy but complicated And like every language, it borrows from the animal kingdom to describe actions, feelings and character traits: shrewd as a weasle, foxy lady, stubborn as a mule, gay as a pinson, sing like a canary,…
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Lidia’s Favorite Recipes. Lidia Bastianich. Book Review

Lidia Bastianich's latest book I recently received Lidia Bastianich's latest Cookbook, Lidia's Favorite Recipes, which her publishers sent me for review. Lidia's cooking show has always been one of the very few cooking shows I actually enjoy…
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levana Cooking Demos

Levana Cooking Demos: the Portable Feast!

Never Too Young (or Too Old) to Cook! Levana Cooking Demos Going Strong Dear friends, For the past thirty years I have been fortunate to  host weekly cooking demos, at the 92nd Street Y, at Lincoln Square and in my very home. We've had…
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Levana ECookbooks: Gone Digital!

Order Levana ECookbooks for just $4.99 a copy! Levana ECookbooks are the perfect gift to yourself and your friends, at a nominal price. And all those of you who own my hard copy Cookbooks will greatly welcome my ECookbooks, identical to the…
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julia child

Dearie: Julia Child, by Bob Spitz. My Review

Julia Child Revisited: Just finished reading Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child, written by author and biographer extraordinaire Bob Spitz. Let me start with my - very few - gripes, then we'll move on to the good stuff. I did say…
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