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This Passover Recipe Tells the Story of a Family Tree

A wide-reaching family’s interpretations of a Moroccan Jewish recipe reflects their history. By Joan Nathan Andrew Purcell for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Carrie Purcell. The mention of a Moroccan fish dish stirs Dafna Tapiero’s memory — of a jar of saffron water perched on her grandmother’s counter in Paris. …

A Honey Like No Other – Try Greek thyme honey—dip your apples in it, or make a special baklava—for a truly sweet new year By Tami Ganeles Weiser

The rocky mountains surrounding Athens, especially Mount Hymettus, don’t look like they could produce much of anything. The crags and crevices are sparsely dotted with a few hyacinths, crocuses, lavender, or savory, but the only plant that truly grows well there is wild thyme. Feeding on those thyme flowers, Greece’s …

From Spain to Salonika, a disappearing Shavuot tradition revisited

A Greek-Sephardic custom until the Nazis decimated the community, will the ‘bread of the seven heavens’ soon be the crumbs of history? ‘My grandmother said that the Torah is sweet for those who make it their nourishment’ PHILADELPHIA — Nicknamed “The Queen of Israel,” Salonika was one of the greatest …