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Babka

Babka

I couldn't imagine baking a babka as good as the ones I'd brought home from Russ and Daughters in New York. I'd suspected the gooey, eggy bricks of cinnamon and chocolate-swirled bread took years to perfect, maybe even generations. That's why I'm thrilled my babka turned out like it did - imperfect.

Let me explain.


Moravian Spice Cookies

Moravian Spice Cookies

The last time I went to fancy food section of a department store, I swear I saw Moravian Spice Cookies in nice holiday gift tins. I didn’t eat them growing up, and I don’t have any other cookbooks that reference them, so I was intrigued by their inclusion in Alice Medrich’s Cookies and Brownies. I always wondered where Moravia was and what made these cookies Moravian, so this would be my chance to find out.


Homemade Granola

Homemade Granola

Do you remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books? I had tons of them as a kid, and like everyone else I know, I read them over and over again, hoping for new outcomes no matter how I chose. I liked the seemingly endless variety, and perhaps a little too much the lack of consequence of changing my mind mid-stream. But those books stuck with me, and I was walking through Kalustyan's on Lexington years later when I had reason to think of them again.


Abbott's Bitters

Abbott's Bitters Ingredients

I don’t know what started Todd’s exploration of bitters – maybe it was an episode of Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie that sent him on that path. Making your own bitters is a relatively simple thing to do if you have a well-stocked spice drawer, a bunch of fresh herbs in the garden, and a Chinese medicine apothecary or other herbalist nearby for those odd things.


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