Thanksgiving isn’t just Alex Guarnaschelli‘s favorite holiday, it’s her favorite day of the year. She’s loved helping to prepare her family’s Thanksgiving dinners since she was a child, when she watched her dad, in his T-shirt and underwear, stuff and sew the turkey while her mother “seemed like she made dessert for like two years.” Guarnaschelli recently shared a draft …
Food never happened in a vacuum for Karla Tatiana Vasquez. “The SalviSoul Cookbook” debuts April 30, featuring 80 defining Salvadoran recipes and stories about the 25 matriarchs who shared them with Vasquez. That’s how I’ve been able to touch it when I’ve been so far away from it.” Vasquez inside her kitchen in 2020, as she worked to to get …
Last year, I was invited to my first breaking of the fast for Yom Kippur and was asked to bring a dessert. Because I was cooking for a large crowd, I decided to make three desserts with tangential connections to the holiday, as determined by the Google search “Yom Kippur desserts.” I ended up making a flourless chocolate cake, a …
