by Laura Frankel
Soufflé is a special treat as it must be baked right before eating it–which is an impossible feat on Shabbat. So save it for special occasions with friends, such as a Sunday brunch or a New Year’s Day party. While a soufflé appears to be intimidating, it is actually […]

by Laura Frankel
Turn every occasion into New Year’s with this classic winter appetizer which is still popular in the Ukraine and Lithuania where buckwheat is grown. A close cousin of the blintz and the French crepe, the Slavic blin was traditionally served toward the end of winter to signal the arrival […]

Harry’s Bar in Venice wasn’t only immortalized by the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles, but by its beloved bubbly cocktail, the bellini. In 1948 Giuseppi Cipriani created the bellini inspired by the 15th-century Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini. Hoping to recreate the rosy glow found in Bellini’s work, Cipriani […]