Tishpishti is a Sephardi Jewish semolina and walnut cake soaked in a sugar syrup flavored with lemon and sometimes orange blossom water or rose water. It is made without flour and without dairy, which places it squarely within the requirements of a kosher kitchen where meat and milk are not mixed — a practical consideration […]

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Diples are Greek fried pastries made from a thin egg-based dough, stretched into sheets, cut into strips or rectangles, and rolled or folded into loose ribbons and rosettes as they fry — the shaping done directly in the hot oil with two forks or skewers in a technique that requires speed and practice. They emerge […]

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