Deborah Pankey
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Springerle season: Suburban bakers keep centuries-old tradition aliveDec 04, 2007 10:00 pm - As a young boy in Germany, Herb Schwartz worked dough into intricate, hand-carved wooden molds to create a shortbread-type cookie called springerle. The crisp, anise-fla...
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David's Bistro makes the grade by mixing signature dishesNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - I sipped a Cointreau-spiked chocolate martini at David's Bistro with a friend, recounting the meal we had finished just moments before. The word we kept coming back to: ...
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Celebrate Hanukkah with healthier latkesNov 27, 2007 10:00 pm - The Hanukkah celebration revolves around oil, but that doesn't mean Hanukkah latkes have to. Oil is part of the Hanukkah tradition because it symbolizes a miracle at the...
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Enjoy a Southern-style ThanksgivingNov 13, 2007 10:00 pm - Years of schooling has taught us to believe that Pilgrims held the first Thanksgiving feast in colonial Massachusetts in 1621. Hence we celebrate each year with cranberr...
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Pie is only the beginning of great pumpkin dessertsOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Walking around the neighborhood tonight you'll see pumpkin in various forms: carved into eerie jack-o-lanterns, etched into artful decorations, painted into cartoonish s...
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Food, music, art please at TivoliOct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - It was impossible not to think of the Rat Pack while dining recently at Tivoli Ristorante in West Chicago. Jazz musician Frank D'Rone, who frequently opened for Frank Si...
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Being tricky with healthful treatsOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - If my boys ask, I'll deny it, but Halloween is my least favorite holiday and it has nothing to do with spending long hours making costumes. I try my best getting them to...
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Appreciating curryOct 16, 2007 11:00 pm - For decades, I didn't like curry. Or so I thought. The word to me meant nothing more than the bottle of pungent, dirty gold powder tucked in the spice cabinet that my mo...
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Rediscovering quinoa -- 'the mother of all grains'Oct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - Some 6,000 years ago, quinoa (pronounced keen-wa) grew in the Andean region of South America. The Incas revered the grain -- a seed, really -- as "the mother of all grai...
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Meaty makeoverSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - When I see restaurants with names such as Brio Tuscan Grille and Five O'clock Steakhouse, I know what cuisine to expect. But the rocky sign on Algonquin Road announcing ...