Article: Cooking up a Gift

Phyllis Glazer
Jerusalem Post
12-15-1995
Hanukka is gift-giving time. Yet for many the issue of presents is problematic. What do you give to a person who has everything? What can you give when your budget is limited? What do you bring when invited to friends?

One of my earliest and fondest childhood memories is of the little raisin hallot my mother taught me to braid even before I knew how to braid my own hair. That same recipe was repeated countless times and frozen, so that there was always something to send home with an aunt or cousin who came to call. There, buried in ancient history, was the root of how the edible gift tradition was born.

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