In case you haven’t heard, cottage cheese is having a moment. If you only associate cottage cheese with the virtuous diet food that your mother ate, scooped into the hollow of half a cantaloupe, it’s time to retool your thinking. The darling of dietitians, cottage cheese is high in protein and keeps you feeling satiated for a long time. The biggest issue that people have with cottage cheese is its…
I am inevitably thrown into a tizzy when the Nine Days approach, the period of time during the summer months when we mourn the destruction of the First and Second Temple and Ashkenazim refrain from eating meat or poultry, except on Shabbat. Eating meatless or dairy meals is already a part of my weekly meal rotation twice a week. But it’s the other four days that send me deep diving…
I stared at my blank computer screen in disbelief. Three hours worth of work had vanished. I was the “lucky” recipient of a new computer at work the previous week. Regrettably, this event was not accompanied by the same unbridled joy that I felt when I waved a happy farewell to my lumpy desk chair or even cracked open the plastic wrapper on a new package of Post-it® notes. The…