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Jeanne Muchnick

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Jeanne Muchnick, Daily Voice Deputy Editor, Content, has covered everything from baby advice for Parents Magazine to travel finds for The Rough Guides to human interest features for The New York Times to lifestyle insights for prevention.com. She has been a Senior Editor at top national women's magazines including Woman's World and Woman's Day and was instrumental in the launch of Gannett's InTown, Rockland and Putnam magazines. She is also the author of Dinner for Busy Moms, a 2010 Mom's Award winner. Among her favorite things to write about: Her neighbors and surrounding communities. So email her and fill her in on what's happening near you. And, follow her on Instagram @dailyvoicefeatures.

Jeanne was formerly a deputy editor at Daily Voice.

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Lifestyle

Larchmont Cook Shows Off Her Matzo Ball Recipe In New HooplaHa Series LARCHMONT, N.Y. -- Still fiddling with your Passover plans and what recipe you'll be using? Not every kitchen creation comes from a cookbook. Some of the most memorable meals come from the ones passed down from generation to generation. At least that's the philosophy of Larchmont resident and food blogger Felicia Levinson whose new HooplaHa series, "Unwritten Recipes with Felicia Levinson," is all about tradition and unwritten family secrets. Check out her video on matzo ball soup, where she concocts dishes from the recipes she learned from her mother, grandmother and other special f…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/03/2015

Lifestyle

New 'Mad Men' Exhibit Features Ossining Kitchen Set OSSINING, N.Y. -- Gearing up for the return of "Mad Men?" You only have to go as far as Queens to get an up close and personal view including the fictional (but true to the period) kitchen of the Draper's Ossining home where it looks like Don or Betty could walk in any minute. (Sorry, fans, no replica of the Francises' Rye abode.) This new exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image opened two and a half weeks ago and includes key elements of the award-winning TV show including the writers’ room where Creator/Writer Matthew Weiner and his team crafted story ideas and scripts for the serie…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/03/2015

Lifestyle

Stamford Chef With Slovakian Roots Shares Potato Salad Easter Dish STAMFORD, Conn. -- Cooking for Easter? Doris Bobik, a Stamford chef/caterer who runs Beluga Girls, is all about tradition. Thanks to her Slovakian/Byzantine heritage, Easter has always consisted of the Church, Incensed & Holy Water Basket Blessing, handpainted boiled eggs, homemade paschka (egg bread with golden raisins), a lamb-shaped butter, and her mom's old-fashioned potato salad. Here, she shares the recipe. 6 large peeled whole Yukon Gold potatoes, boiled, cooled and cut into bite-size chunks 6 large organic hard boiled eggs, roughly chopped 2 large ribs of celery, fine…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/02/2015

Lifestyle

Greenwich Grocery Store Highlights Goodies For Easter, Passover OLD GREENWICH, Conn. -- Fig and almond baked brie, organic chicken noodle soup, Black Pearl salmon and wood-smoked spiral ham are some of the Easter offerings on the catering menu at Kings Food Markets in Greenwich. And no, it's not too late to order. Ditto for Passover, when dishes include stuffed cabbage, antibiotic-free rotisserie chicken, whitefish, home-style matzo balls and King's traditional potato latkes. For those who prefer to make their own, here's a Kings recipe for charoset for Passover. Ingredients 1 apple, peeled and chopped 6 walnuts, chopped 1/8 tsp cin…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/02/2015

Neighbors

New Food Show Features Irvington Native Dan Glickberg Of Fairway Fame IRVINGTON, N.Y. -- Walk in with a tasty idea ... walk out with a fortune. Such is the premise of "Food Fortunes," a new Food Network show where recipe developers, food visionaries and other entrepreneurs have the chance to win big bucks from judges that work in the business. (The audience also gets to vote.) Among those judges -- as well as an investor in the show -- Dan Glickberg, a fourth-generation founding family member of Fairway Market and past vice president. Glickberg, who grew up in Irvington and now owns Manhattan-based Dan Glickberg Food, a food consulting company, said the s…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/02/2015

Events

Wilton's Charles Grodin Shares His Comedic Journey At Ridgefield Playhouse RIDGEFIELD, Conn. -- Veteran actor, comedian and author Charles Grodin of Wilton pretty much remembers everything ... and it's "everything" you'll get when he performs April 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Ridgefield Playhouse. The 80-minute comedic show is a collection of Grodin's remembrances and recollections spanning his 50-some years in the business "There are no written jokes," he said. "It's just things that happened to me on the way up." This includes a time early in his career when a director told him five minutes before he was supposed to go on stage, "If you're going to continue doing…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/02/2015

Lifestyle

X-Planations: Yonkers' Chef Peter X. Kelly Talks Simple Entertaining YONKERS, N.Y. -- Cooking for me has always been about making people happy. Having grown up in a family with 11 siblings, some of my most vivid memories are centered around a dining room table. Whether it was the lasagna (made with American cheese) served when my oldest sister announced her engagement or the letter from my brother stationed in Vietnam that was read over pot roast and boiled potatoes or the canned ham and pineapple rings we were enjoying till another sibling announced his alternate lifestyle decision, food has always played a significant role. I suppose it was only natur…

by Peter X. Kelly

04/02/2015

Lifestyle

Have You Made Your Easter Plans? Putnam Is Full Of Brunch, Dinner Options PUTNAM COUNTY, N.Y. -- Easter is almost here and if you haven't made your plans yet, now's the time. Putnam is full of restaurants that are open and ready to serve you, everything from festive brunches to decadent dinners. A sampling follows: Cathryn's Tuscan Grill, Cold Spring: The regular brunch menu is served from noon to 3 p.m. with a few special items like lamb and pasta dishes. Price is $20.15. Reserve Now: 91 Main St., 845-265-5582, www.tuscangrill.com/. Brasserie Le Bouchon, Cold Spring: French food with German undertones is what Le Bouchon is known for. This a la carte menu is …

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/01/2015

Lifestyle

Westchester Kosher Caterer Shares Passover Kugel Recipe MAMARONECK, N.Y. --- For Michael and Avril Kaye, a husband-and-wife team from South Africa who now live in Mamaroneck, cooking is family affair. Together, the two run the boutique kosher catering company Avril Kaye Caterers, with an office/kitchen at Congregation Kneses Tifereth Israel in Port Chester. Here, Avril shares her Passover sweet potato kugel, which she says is enhanced if you sprinkle crumbled matzo on top before baking. Ingredients: 1 cup sweet potato, grated, raw 1 cup carrots, grated, raw 1 cup apple, grated ½ cup sugar 1/3 cup raisins ½ cup matzo me…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/01/2015

Lifestyle

Got Any Jokes Up Your Sleeves, Putnam? It's April Fool's Day PUTNAM COUNTY, N.Y. -- Is the joke on us that we're still in winter's clutches? Today is April Fools Day, and if you've got kids in the house, you may be tiptoeing around, knowing a joke is hidden in plain sight. Tell us your plans -- if you've got any.

by Daily Voice

04/01/2015

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