Paula Shoyer is a serious baker. So many cookbooks—lovely, inspiring, must-own collections—are authored by self-taught home chefs who have turned cooking into a passion. But

Hanukka celebrations include family and tradition, good food and get-togethers and, of course, dreidel showdowns and the lighting of the menora. And yet it has

The way I see it, holidays are either an opportunity to whip up old-school classics that have become mainstays of traditional observance—in the case of

Though I already reviewed Jewish Traditional Cooking: Over 150 Nostalgic & Contemporary Recipes for the magazine just last month, there was a standout dessert that I did

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Serach at the Seder: A Haggadah Supplement by Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum. (www.jewishspirit.com, 11 pp. $18) Have you heard of Serach bat Asher? Her name is mentioned

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I am standing at my white kitchen counter feeding sticky ingredients into a food mixer: clumps of dates, walnut pieces from a cellophane packet, slices