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Red grapefruit and mint sorbet

Sarah — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:55:40 +0000

Sorbet may be the perfect antidote for those sweaty days of August but my grapefruit tree wasn’t going to wait that long. By December it’s as festive as a Christmas tree, each bowed limb decorated with bright globes of yellows. Although I love grapefruit simply cut in half and sprinkled with brown...

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Sabich, enough with the latkes already! (or happy belated Hannukah)

Sarah — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:52:11 +0000

Prologue: Happy Hannukah! This latest post was actually written in a timely manner, more than a month ago, but my computer crashed and was never revived. I was barely able to extract this article and several other items I did not backup (and with the new Picasa/Google + changes had a terrible time...

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Where to eat in Or Yehuda

Sarah — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:06:13 +0000

Peacocks, goats, crocodiles, storks, camels….no, this is not the entrance to the zoo but Or Yehuda, in the suburbs of Tel Aviv. Instead of the usual environmental sculptures, the municipality invested in larger than life reproductions of the animal kingdom, complete with Disney styled backdrops. As...

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Surprises in Spain

Sarah — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:50:16 +0000

There is nothing like a surprise trip to Spain to forget that an entire decade had disappeared. Not that I was in a frump but the first time someone said Happy 40th birthday I looked behind me to see who they were referring to. With less than a day before our flight, there was no [...]

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The forgotten cookbooks, a treasure of traditional recipes

Sarah — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:57:53 +0000

There’s a man who comes around our neighborhood and yells alte zachen in a reverberant baritone, a voice from the stomach and not the throat. It once sounded to me like a call to prayer, but it is altogether more grounded and mundane. The term is Yiddish for old stuff, a dying trade where a...

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