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Category Archives: Arts & Culture
In Good Taste: Should we wear a scarlet ‘NY’ on our forehead?
TWISTED EGGS BENEDICT with smoked salmon.
By DAWN LaROCHELLE
When you’re a newly-minted college freshman, you get asked the same three questions over and over again: (1) “what’s your name?” (2) “what’s your major?” and (3) “where are you from?” When I was a newly-minted college freshman, by way of contrast, I got asked: (1) “what’s your [...]
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Tagged candlelight dinner, cheese, college freshman, cream cheese, Salmon
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IN GOOD TASTE: Sticking your neck out
TOFFEE TURTLE BARS
By DAWN LaROCHELLE
When you have three baseball-obsessed sons, you learn a lot about pre-game superstitions and rituals. Don’t step on the foul line coming on and off the field. Tap the bat on the plate before hitting. Step out of the batter’s box before a pitch, secure the bat between your legs, readjust [...]
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Tagged cup, mosaic tiles, small business owner, spray, wade boggs
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IN GOOD TASTE: Got any real bread for this peanut butter?
By DAWN LaROCHELLE
There is nothing quite so humbling as having your six-year-old son march into your Zagat-rated restaurant, through a crowded dining room, with a jar of peanut butter and loudly demand to know if there is any “real” bread in the house (apparently, the warm, fragrant nine-grain and three-cheese loaves we offer our customers [...]
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Tagged dan dan mian, mian, mini marshmallows, peanut, peanut butter sandwiches
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God is in the notes
Notes on three Tanglewood concerts
By JIM CLEVENSON
Emotional and “spiritual” experiences abound this summer, and they’re not just in shul.
Trips to Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home in Lenox, Mass., have provided moments of elation, peace, angst, and transcendence. Aside from the music, the flower gardens, mature trees, manorial buildings, and understated modernity of the [...]
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Tagged boston symphony orchestra, brahms violin concerto, jaap van zweden, music, width
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IN GOOD TASTE: Where can I get a good egg cream?
IN BROOKLYN IN THE ’50s “a candy store minus an egg cream…was as difficult to conceive as the Earth without gravity.” (Photo by Greg Nesbit)
By DAWN LaROCHELLE
Rabbi Mat, my spiritual mentor and my sons’ sondek, has told me in no uncertain terms that I have failed as a parent—not because of lax kashrus, nor because [...]
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Tagged CHOCOLATE, chocolate ganache, miniature broom, Red, shomer shabbos
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‘Celebrating Yiddish’ concert featuring Cantor Shira Ginsburg is set for ‘The Linda, on June 5
Ne’imah Jewish Community Chorus will perform its 19th annual concert “Celebrating Yiddish” at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, June 5, at the Linda Norris Auditorium, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, 318 Central Ave.
Ne’imah’s guest performer will be Cantor Shira Ginsburg (left) from the East End Temple in New York City. She is a graduate of the Hebrew Academy [...]
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Tagged Capital District, Central Ave, concert, Debbie Friedman, East End, hebrew union college, imah, israeli composers, Judith Ginsburg, Linda Norris Auditorium, New York, New York City, Shira Ginsburg, singer song writer, TROY
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Part II of Community of Jewish Writers series scheduled for Ohav Shalom June 2
The second presentation of the second annual Community of Jewish Writers series willbe held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 2, at Ohav Shalom Synagogue, 113 New Krumkill Rd., Albany.
The series was organized by Leslie Neustadt (left), a retired attorney and published writer, and will feature 10 area writers reading some of their works.
Wendy Bates [...]
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Tagged Albany, Author, brecht forum, Brooklyn, Carol Bluestein, Islands, Israel, Jan Tramontano, Jay Wenk, latin american literature, Linda Sonia Miller, Manhattan, New York, New York City, Poland, Romania, Sandra Gardner, series, Shalom, Shalom Synagogue, Susan Nowogrodzki, Trina Porte, TROY, United States, Wendy Bates
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‘Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong’
Book Review
By JONATHAN KIRSCH
The Jewish Journal
“Writers don’t die of typhus,” goes one of my favorite quotations from the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer. “They die of typos.”
Alina Tugend (left), however, is one writer who sees errors as an opportunity for redemption and improvement both for individuals and institutions. Indeed, as she argues persuasively in Better [...]
IN GOOD TASTE: A simple, elegant and delicious Mother’s Day entrée
MISO-MARINATED GRILLED SALMON WITH WASABI BUTTER
(Photo by Gregory Nesbit)
“What would one know of life as it should be lived or nights as they should be spent apart from meals?”
–James and Kay Salter, Life is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days
By DAWN LaROCHELLE
You could describe me as passionate about food. Okay, maybe even obsessive—just [...]
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Tagged Andrew, DAWN LaROCHELLE, DAWN ROCHELLE
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