PASSOVER: Start New Traditions With These Recipes

Passover begins at sunset on Monday, March 25th and continues for seven days. Observant Jews celebrate the first two nights with seders, featuring recipes that have been in their families for generations. But how about some 21st-century Passover recipes—if not for a seder, then for the other five days? There are more than 60 modern,…
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PRODUCT: Katy’s Kettle Corn Popchips

It’s every entrepreneur’s dream: A mega-star stumbles upon your product and likes it so much, she invests in the company and creates an ad. Katy Perry discovered Popchips* while on tour last summer. Hungry after a show, she found a bag of Popchips in her hotel room’s minibar and liked them so much she tweeted…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Celebrate The Cherry Blossoms With Special Cocktail Recipes

Cherry Blossom Cocktail (photo © Haru Sushi | NYC).   This is a plan-ahead tip: Organize a cherry blossom cocktail party to celebrate the fleeting cherry blossom season. In Japan, the arrival of the spring season is welcomed with hanami celebrations, otherwise known as cherry blossom parties. Flowering cherry trees produce breathtaking white and pink…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Ways To Use Semolina Flour

Semolina flour. Photo courtesy King Arthur Flour.   As we were writing about this past week’s Top Pick, Effie’s Semolina Crackers, we drilled down into semolina, the durum wheat-based flour from which they are made. Part of the review addresses “what is semolina.” We came across an article from Shubhra Krishan, author of Essential Ayurveda:…
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NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO: Paulette Tavormino Food Photography

Figs, grapes and morning glories. Photo © Paulette Tavormina Photography | NYC.   There’s just one more week to see Paulette Tavormina’s exquisite still life photographs at the Robert Mann Gallery in New York City: Then they head to San Francisco. The show opens at March, a retailer of luxury kitchenware and other goods, on…
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