Where has this cookbook been my entire life? Luckily the author -- a descendant of the Streit matzo founder -- came up with dozens of creative Passover recipes. From breakfast treats like blueberry & cheese blintzes made with matzo meal (page 23), to Caesar salad with matzo ball croutons (41), to Moroccan matzo stuffing (57), there are modern classics like matzo brei and new creative recipes. There is a whole chapter with mouthwatering desserts, two words that rarely come to mind at Passover meals! These recipes are so good that they may just find a place at the table after the 8 day holiday is over.
Lucio's doctor has given him 100 days to live. Rather than fight his disease, Lucio wants to enjoy every minute he has left. His first priority is to win back his wife who kicked him out after discovering an affair. In 100 short and often funny chapters, he counts down to his last days while enjoying his beloved family, revisiting sentimental places, making new memories with old and new friends, eating hot donuts and rediscovering life's important life lessons.
If you remember collecting Green Stamps, watching Lucille Ball, and having a metal milk box on your porch, you will laugh old loud while reading this poignant, illustrated memoir. Kaplan grew up in a Jewish home in NJ, the youngest of three boys. His mother always felt "discombobulated" and nothing was thrown out or replaced. Cheeseits on New Years Eve was exciting! Kaplan loved his parents, but he wasn't close to them nor did he understand them. Television was his passion and Kaplan wanted to climb inside. In a way he did; he became a writer/producer for television shows including HBO's Girls, as well as a cartoonist for the New Yorker. His family story is sometimes funny, sometimes painful, and honest.
