I first tried raw vegan coconut cream pie years ago at Café Gratitude, one of the popular plant-based restaurants in Los Angeles. Café Gratitude is a quintessential healthy L.A. eatery. The menu features...

When in doubt for a good recipe, Passover or any time of the year, we often consult with Dorothy Firestone of Clayton, cook extraordinaire and author of the self-published “Table Talk: A Cookbook and...

When we’re all busy preparing for Passover, it takes chutzpah for me to focus on the day after Passover, right? But I recently learned of a joyous North African tradition that takes place the day after...

Ingredients:1 2/3 cup finely ground almonds (almond meal) ½ cup plus 1½ tbsp. bakers sugar Finely grated zest of 1 small lemon ½ tsp. pure almond extract Pinch of salt ½ cup tart dried cherries,...

Note: Kosher for Passover powdered sugar is available at Kohn’s Kosher Meat and Deli in Creve Coeur. However, if you would like to make your own, process a cup of granulated sugar with 1½ tsp. potato...

Ingredients:Carrots: 3 lbs. carrots, trimmed, scraped, washed and patted dry ¼ cup olive oil 2 tsp. coarse kosher salt Charmoula Sauce: 1 cup lightly packed, fresh, flat-leaf parsley leaves 1...

Ingredients:3 ¾ cup unbleached all-purpose flour, divided, plus more for shaping  1 ½ tsp. fine sea salt  1 ½ tsp. granulated sugar  2 tbsp. vegetable oil, plus more as needed for shaping  2...

There is no substitute for eating a dish in its place of origin, preferably made in a home kitchen by hands that hold the muscle memory of thousands of meals. For me, a close second is stumbling across...

Nick Riggio, a University City resident and member of Kol Rinah, explained that when he injured his knee some years ago, he wanted to show his appreciation to his co-workers for covering for him by making...

When Barbara Kopperman Becker was growing up in St. Louis, her mother, Mariam Kopperman, would bake a chocolate banana cake on Thursday to have for Shabbat dessert. “It was a ‘dairy cake,’ because...