challah

Over delicious homemade challah, we discussed classic graphic novels, many of which he edited.

Around us are culturally clashing foods — boxes of takeout Indian dishes set across the room from a cart of sliced challah and tiny cups of prayer wine.

This recipe dispatches any sort of stale loaf — the panettone, challah, brioche, a few croissants, a day-old baguette, even dried cake — forgotten among all the holiday goodies.

Choose instead a stale or dried out brioche, French bread or baguette, sourdough, or even stale Texas toast or challah.

The six mothers had gathered in a Jerusalem home on a recent Friday to prepare challah, the braided bread that Jews eat on the Sabbath.