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Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A wonderfully aromatic new arrival from a creative women-powered company My initial experience of za’atar came when I visited Jerusalem for the first time many decades … Continued
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Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A terrific taste of Tunisia to make at home Local heirloom tomato season is coming to an end for 2022, but cauliflower is still going strong! … Continued
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Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews The Bakehouse’s fantastic version just got better still! Dobos Torta is the creation of József Dobos who first developed it in his Budapest bakery back in … Continued
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Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Delicate dry-cured beef from Indiana If you’re looking for a great new way to accent your eating, scope out this Spruce Tip Bresaola from the folks at Smoking … Continued
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Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews The first picking of the 2022 harvest hits the Deli’s shelves First Flush Darjeeling is one of my favorite teas of all time. It’s a tea … Continued
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Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Getting ahead of Rosh Hashanah’s arrival Ready to kick the New Year off in good form? Here’s a new babka from the Bakehouse, made specifically for … Continued
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Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Muscatel with Orange Blossom Honey make a lovely sweet-sour combination The Alemany family began to sell honey and honey-based confectionery all the way back in 1879. … Continued
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Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews An early September Special Bake Back in the early months of 1982, Paul and I drove all over the Detroit area together going from one bakery … Continued
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Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A late-season weekend fling with one of my Bakehouse favorites As we move into the final weeks of summer, the Bakehouse has decided to have one … Continued
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Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Special Hungarian Apple “strudel” from the Bakehouse In Hungary, what Germans and Austrians call strudel is known as “rétes” (pronounced “ray-TESH”). If you go to Hungary, … Continued
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Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Manna for sweet eaters, and a great way to ring in a sweet New Year The arrival of Rosh Hashanah reminds me each year to again … Continued
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Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A sweet Jewish New Year’s tradition Eating honey at Rosh Hashanah is a traditional way to ring in a “sweet new year.” As Arthur Schwartz wrote in Arthur Schwartz’s … Continued