With so many kinds of salts, what's the best for your dish? (Kristy McCarron/DC on Heels)

Sorting Through Salts

Salts: What’s the Difference? Growing up on one salt container, which read one of my favorite taglines, “When it rains, it pours,” I was shocked and delighted to learn about the endless variety of salts that are readily available today. The varying sizes,
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Chewy, Gooey & Soft

The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie I’ve been on a cookie bender all my life. I can remember my earliest weakness for the chewy Chips Ahoy, which came in the red packet, much different from their blue counterpart. And I have vivid memories of when my brothers and I discovered the
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Round Challah (Photo: Kristy McCarron/DC on Heels)

Rosh Hashanah Treats

A Spin on Jewish Honey Cake The start of Autumn is signified with a few key events: freshly sharpened pencils, new copybooks, turn of the weather (not quite in D.C.), the first pumpkin spice latte, crisper apples and the many fall Jewish holidays. This year, not being of Jewish
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