by Levana Kirschenbaum
Italian for “pick-me-up,” probably because it puts together three of our favorite intense robust flavors: rum, chocolate and coffee (please don’t try to substitute any of them!), this dessert is so fabulous that I never bother to make the original dairy […]

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Technically, almonds are not one of the seven species eaten on Tu B’Shevat. But somehow, we go nuts for these nuts on Jewish Arbor Day. Why is that? The almond tree, or the sh’kedia, is the first one to blossom in Israel. School children there sing about it […]