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12/20/12 • HOLIDAY SPICE COOKIES Adapted from the Dec., 2012 Food and Wine It’s hard to know how to write about food—holiday food no less—after a week like the one we’ve just witnessed. “Unspeakably tragic” is the phrase I keep hearing in connection with the sickening events that unfolded in Newtown, Conn. last Friday, and while I can fully appreciate that response, “speak” is exactly what we all must do—about the ne

12/13/12 • HUNGRY-MAN’S HUNGARIAN-GOULASH Adapted from The Hamptons: Food, Family, and History, by Ricky Lauren (Wiley) Long before I recognized my mom for the excellent cook she is, it was my German-born grandmother who I held up as the master of all things kitchen-related. Her name was Freda Schloss (Nana Freda to me), and it was she who introduced me to things like herring in cream sauce, and poached eggs sp

12/06/12 • POPOVERS WITH A PLUS Adapted from the Dec., 2012 Bon Appétit Many years ago, when I was around 3 or 4 years old, my parents decorated the eating area in our house with a hilarious poster of a smiling, middle-aged Asian guy holding a sandwich he’d presumably just taken a bite out of. Above his head were the words, “You don’t have to be Jewish,” and below it the phrase’s now famous kicker: “to love Levy’s re