The borscht recipe that Alexa Fogel makes for special occasions has a long history. “It was from my great–grandmother Lea Luboshutz, who was a concert -violinist and a teacher at the -Curtis Institute ...

Thanks to my two grandmothers, I grew up eating lots of vegetables from different parts of the world. Granny cooked with Middle Eastern and Indian ones, and Baba with those that grew in Russian ...

For a few moments, tension hung heavy inside the kitchen at Our Lady of the Springs Catholic Church. Out in the parish hall, 100-plus guests were diving into dinner. They had nibbled their pickled ...