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Fig, Tahini and Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies

Not many of us saw it coming, certainly not me, way back in 1989 when La Brea Bakery opened, and I thought, โ€œWho the heck is going to buy freshly baked bread in Los Angeles? Thatโ€™ll never workโ€ฆโ€ And the rest, as they say, is history, as La Brea Bakery and Campanile restaurant, the adjacent restaurant in the same Spanish-style building (that Charlie Chaplin built),โ€ฆ

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Tahini and Almond Cookies

It was a treat to spend a tasty afternoon in Tel Aviv with Natalie Levin, of the blog Oogio.net, who is a passionate baker. Upon meeting, one of the first things Natalie did was hand over a bag of homemade treats, which included a sack of these Tahini and Almond Cookies. Although I didnโ€™t dive in right away (to be polite), after we visited theโ€ฆ

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A Visit to a Hummus Factory

Almost all of the people I spoke with said they rarely make their own hummus, simply because the store-bought stuff was as good โ€“ if not better โ€“ than what they could make at home. (I guess it helps to think of it like peanut butter, where the homemade is very good, but store-bought will suffice.) People have very strong opinions about hummus, like theyโ€ฆ

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