KOSHER SALTED CABBAGE

     Love Café in Kips Bay, on 2nd Ave. and 25th, serves primarily Russian cuisine, is an intimate, homey restaurant run by a first-generation immigrant family from Eastern Europe settling in New York. It’s one of my favorite, go-to restaurants in Manhattan, and it’s not...

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HAZELNUT CACAO CHOCOLATE BAR

For lack of a better food, I decided to make candy. Einstein once said: imagination is better than knowledge— so I will follow his lead. (True, I am, have always been, enamored by cooking, though I can admit a secret about pastry cheffing, making cakes, tarts, celebrations breads and candies in a dreamy...

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LYCHEE SEASON

 My first taste of lychees were those canned in heavy syrup (most likely imported from China) and Mom used to pour them out equally in bowls and ice them up and that’s treat for us kids after play. The intense sweetness (preserved in sugar and additives) was watered down by the ice we waited a...

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BALSAMIC APPLE AND CUCUMBER SALAD

 This refreshing summer salad entrée calls for mountain apples—  a variety local to Maui, Hawaii where I live, and most likely in other tropical countries with different names (in the Philippines, for example, it’s called macopa). The short-list of ingredients in this recipe is chilled in...

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