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I m Kristin Scharkey, features editor for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, wishing you a happy Friday and sincere apologies for missing our Thursday edition. The news cycle never sleeps! We re still here : Palm Springs historic gay bars see light at the end of the tunnel. Despite more than a year of pandemic-related closures, many of the bars located in the Southern California destination are open again.
The city has long been one of the most popular LGBTQ destinations in the country. These bars are more than just drinking places, Rob Giesecke, owner of Chill Bar Palm Springs, told Desert Sun reporter Amanda Ulrich. This is where the community comes together.”
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Reem Kassis thought for sure she was a one-and-done cookbook author. In 2017 Phaidon published “The Palestinian Table,” written so Kassis could codify her family recipes and help preserve or “safeguard,” a word she uses often an everyday aspect of her cultural heritage.
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The questions posed to her during interviews for the book surprised and interested her, though. People wanted to know the difference between Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese cooking cultures. They asked her to lay out her position on the
Bill Addison
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Cookbooks are always about connection â written to share the love of a cuisine or celebrate ancestry, or sometimes to eulogize broken bonds and safeguard history.
If you ve run out of ideas or motivation for preparing your next meal, if you re longing to be somewhere far away or want to explore fresh approaches to comfort food at home, or if you re thinking about the broader context of food in our troubled culture, take heart and inspiration from these 11 books of the season. Baking at the 20th Century Cafe Admit it, begins the jacket copy of Michelle Polzine s hefty, handsome book. You re here for the famous honey cake. Well, yes and no. The 10-layer version of the Russian cake that Polzine serves at her cafe in San Francisco s Hayes Valley, given mysterious depths by caramelizing the honey and lightened by dulce de leche in the frosting, deserves its legendary status.