FARGO - Every holiday season, I Google like crazy to get ideas for new dishes to make for Christmas breakfast. I'm not crazy about egg bakes or quiche and making mounds of pancakes and waffles for a ...

Challah changed Dr. Beth Ricanati’s life. More than 15 years ago, she started baking challah on Fridays as a self-care ritual, an experience illustrated in her memoir, Braided: A Journey of a Thousand ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Every Christmas season when I was young, my family would make a trip to a small Norwegian goods store in south Sarasota to load up on our favorite holiday treat: Swedish braid bread, which is also ...

Scandinavian lifestyle concepts are relentlessly commercialized in the U.S. these days, but it still takes me by surprise when I learn there’s a trendy term for practices my American family has passed ...

Just about every Friday, on the eve of Shabbat, I make challah, the Jewish enriched, braided bread. I make it so often, the process has become a kitchen dance where I’m guided by muscle memory. I know ...

And, because of the photos I saw of Ukrainian Paska bread (Paska means Easter), I opted to make this tall, brioche like loaf with a braided top. It was fun to make and we have plenty left over, so I'm ...