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The U.S. inflation rate in July was at 8.5 percent, Bay Area gas prices are still more than $5 a gallon, and there’s a nationwide poultry shortage, all factors that are impacting the ways we’re cooking and shopping this year for the High Holidays. ....
Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Laya Cooperman’s kosher cake business all started with one custom order. It was for a friend, whose husband’s birthday fell on Tisha B’Av, a day of mourning on the Jewish calendar. She asked Cooperman if she could make a cake that was a replica of the Beit HaMikdash, or the Second Temple in Jerusalem its fall is one of the tragic occasions mourned on that day. To the best of her abilities, Cooperman replicated it in cake form. “When I look back at it, I kind of cringe,” the Berkeley resident said. “It’s really amazing how much I’ve learned in the past two years.” ....