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Hanukkah recipe: Winter sunshine latkes
Made with grated sweet potatoes, carrots and parsnips in addition to potatoes, these latkes from cookbook author Phyllis Glazer look like little glowing suns -- making them perfectly appropriate for the Festival of Lights. Winter sunshine latkes is...
Tags: Sour Cream, Cheese Corn, Religious Festivals, Potatoes, Google+
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This week's recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen
This week, cookbook author Faye Levy shares the importance of oil to Hanukkah: "As a child in Hebrew school, I was taught the story of the Hanukkah miracle: When the Jews in the land of Israel defeated the foreigners, the priests seeking to rekindle the...
Tags: Israel, Potatoes, Salads, Religious Festivals, Rituals
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Homemade holiday gift idea: Springerle cookies
A dedicated cookie baker with a highly wrought sense of aesthetics might try his hand at German springerle -- the Christmas cookies of Swabia. The pale, embossed cookies are formed with beautiful wood or ceramic molds to create patterns such as...
Tags: Recipes, Holidays, Religious Festivals, Google+, Los Angeles Times
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Christmas festival of song is spectacular
Staff WriterThe Christmas spirit could be heard clearly Sunday afternoon as the Imperial Valley Master Chorale performed timeless Christmas songs — some spiritual, some secular — at First United Methodist Church in El Centro. The event, under the...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Religious Festivals, Holidays, Christmas Music (genre)
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2012 holiday cookie contest
We like a good baking-cookies-with-grandma story as much as the next guy. But it was a breakup story that won our hearts this holiday season.
Victoria Weisenberg, of Northbrook, wrote us with a tale of wooing "a very special man" with a Hanukkah gift...Tags: Pistachios, Lifestyle and Leisure, Customs and Tradition, Judaism, Butter
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Around Town: One hymn best serves this season of light
Hanukkah is here. Christmas is coming. The cross-cultural lights are lit at Memorial Park. In this red-state-blue-state, micromarketing era of niche demographics, it's good to recognize common values. One song we have in common is “Ma'or Tzur,&...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Holidays, Religious Festivals, Customs and Tradition
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Emanuel expected to light Daley Plaza menorah
After flipping the switch for two annual tree-lighting ceremonies in Daley Plaza, Chicago's first Jewish mayor, Rahm Emanuel, is expected to light the city's giant menorah this week for the first time, according to the rabbi in charge of the celebration....Tags: Human Interest, Religious Festivals, Rahm Emanuel, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights
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Fergie hosts charity cocktail party, likes her own vodka
Fergie hosted the star-studded Voli Light Vodka cocktail party Thursday night to benefit Cell Phones For Soldiers at Skybar at the Mondrian in Los Angeles. The vodka brand donated 500,000 minutes to the charity, and Fergie, who co-owns Voli Light Vodka,...
Tags: Recipes, Google+
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On Faith: From left to right, the rules of Hanukkah
Hanukkah, meaning "dedication" in Hebrew, refers to the joyous eight-day celebration during which Jews commemorate the victory of the Maccabees over the armies of Syria in 165 B.C.E. and the subsequent liberation and "rededication" of the Temple in...Tags: Holidays, Religious Festivals, Religion and Belief, Judaism
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Recipe: Hanukkah kubanah with fig jam (pull-apart Middle Eastern bread)
Hanukkah kubanah with fig jam (pull-apart Middle Eastern bread) Total time: 5 hours, plus about 2 hours rising time Servings: 8 1 envelope active dry yeast (¼ ounce or 2¼ teaspoons) 1/3 cup lukewarm water (about 110 degrees) 2 tablespoons sugar,...
Tags: Butter, Holidays, Religious Festivals, Breads, Religion and Belief
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12/9/2012-Groundhog Day Christmas
There are certain newspaper traditions I love and one of them is drawing editorial cartoons during the Christmas season. There's an abundance of metaphors to use even when the news is bad, and that's almost all the time in Editorial Cartoonland. ...
Tags: Job Layoffs, Religious Festivals, Unemployment, Holidays, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Homemade holiday gift idea: Panettone
Fragrant, yeasty holiday panettone -- studded with colorful bits of dried and candied fruit -- is festive just to look at and sweetly satisfying to eat. RECIPES: 25 homemade holiday gift ideas! Classic panettone is just one way to get crafty this...
Tags: Butter, Recipes, Egg Yolks, Holidays, Vanilla Bean
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