A Noodle Kugel Recipe Worthy of Celebration

For most kugel lovers, the very best version is whatever you grew up eating. Whether you were raised on savory, schmaltz-laden potato kugel or sour cream-slathered noodle kugel dotted with raisins, there’s very little crossover where kugel is concerned. This recipe is for all the sweet noodle kugel enthusiasts out there. A mix of wide…

Read Your Way Through Kingston, Jamaica

What book reveals a Kingston that Kingstonians don’t know? Kerry Young’s “Pao.” Don’t be surprised if you didn’t know that Kingston once had a Chinatown: Chances are your Jamaican friends have never heard of it either. In the mid-1800s, hundreds of Chinese immigrants were shipped to Jamaica to make up for the post-emancipation labor shortage,…

Give Yourself a Break

This past weekend, I spent a fantastic afternoon with 60 high-spirited grade-schoolers — most under the age of 7 — at a holiday kickoff party to benefit the charity God’s Love We Deliver. There was guacamole making, cookie decorating and fruit tart assembling. Kids ricocheted from one activity to the next in crayon-colored aprons, like…

Suits So Good They Make a Case for Monarchy

Amid the current royal throw-down being played out in the media sphere, the figure least central to the drama is, of all things, the British king. Once considering himself the “most misunderstood man of modern times,” according to the royal biographer Hugo Vickers, Charles III seems eternally shoehorned, caught between England’s longest reigning, and arguably…