Family History

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Friday, November 20, 2015

Never-Fail Balkan Cornbread

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                                     Maize or corn made its way from the New World to Europe about four hundred years ago. It wa...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Cooking in Translation: A 1903 Recipe for Piškotni Zvitki (aka Jelly Roll Slices!)

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Last winter, I found a treasure in a box of old books that had just been culled from the library at San Fr...
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Monday, September 21, 2015

The new best-ever Jewish Honey Cake, sinkholes and all

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Last fall, I made a wonderful honey cake for Rosh Hashanah , the Jewish New Year. I was attempting a low-sodium adapta...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Belokranjska Pogača, Slovenia's answer to focaccia

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Belokranjska pogača is one of Slovenia's official EU-protected specialty foods. Although the name means "po...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

Caraway Meatballs: A Healthy Update

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I first made these simple but flavorful meatballs in June of 2012, during my inaugural year of weekly Slovenian dinners. The foundation ...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Sweet Omelet Sponge for Father's Day Breakfast

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What does this photo look like? A sponge cake? A soufflé? A giant pancake? This traditional Slovenian dish is called Pohorska omleta--i...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Albanian Mystery Cake Revisited

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Our son was visiting from Kosovo, so I decided to make an encore version of the delicious meal I had prepared from the Albanian-American...