My mother, Irene, was obsessed with mandlebrot (mandel means almond, brot means bread in German and Yiddish), which she called "mandel breit," another name for the twice-baked cookies. They're often ...

Irene Berg never used to cook, and she recalls with a laugh the sign her brother-in-law gave her for her kitchen. It reads: “I’m Not Betty Crocker. Adjust. ” But in June 2003, the nurse, who lives in ...

You’d think we’d get better at this stuff, the older we get. But as the December days dwindle down, here we are again, staring into the headlights of holiday hoopla. Lists made and checked more than ...

Once the province of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cooking, pomegranate molasses recently has found its way onto television and into a growing number of supermarkets. The thick, garnet purple syrup ...

Call it biscotti, if you want to be fancy about it. Make it with whole pistachios, a splash of orange liqueur. Add coconut. Dip it in dark melted chocolate, if you must. It’s all mandlebrot to me.

It’s not often that one hears a Jewish person refer to Yom Kippur -- the Day of Atonement, marked by repentence and fasting -- as their favorite holiday, but for a good friend of mine living in Jaffa, ...

You say "biscotti," I say "mandelbrot." According to Wikipedia: "The Yiddish word mandelbrodt literally means almond bread." But not every version contains almonds ...

1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter or nondairy margarine, at room temperature 2 cups sugar 6 large eggs, at room temperature 1 teaspoon kosher-for-Passover vanilla 2 1/2 cups matzo cake meal 3/4 cup ...

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They could be the oldest cookies known to civilization. The ancient Romans, we know, were nuts for 'em. Pliny the Elder claimed they would keep for centuries - quite a plug given that it would be a ...