Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
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(The Nosher via JTA)-I was the only person in Miss Duckler's kindergarten class without a sibling. I had wished so long for a sister. But I had also wished on a star for a Baby Alive doll, and that never came true. So when my Aunt Jeannie picked me up from school and shared the birth of my sister April, I couldn't really believe it. I started cheering and skipping in circles. "I have a sister, I have a sister!" As we drove off in her silver Cadillac Eldorado, I was dying with anticipation. I...
(The Nosher via JTA)-If you are looking for a light, healthy appetizer to brighten your table, this sweet potato hummus is bursting with flavor. Because of its high protein and fiber content, it will help control your appetite and mood. My 450-pound ad-man dad named it the caviar of hummus-exclaiming that it was almost illegal for something so nutritious to be this delicious. "All the gusto without all the Jewish guilt," my dad complimented, paraphrasing his award-winning slogan for Schlitz...
In her recently published memoir "My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes" (Berkley Books, September 2015), New York Times wellness blogger and nutritionist Dawn Lerman shares her food journey and that of her father, a copywriter from the "Mad Men" era of advertising at the Leo Burnett and McCann Erickson firms. Dawn spent her early childhood in Chicago constantly hungry as her ad man father pursued endless fad diets from Atkins to Pritikin, and insisted that Dawn and her mo...
