Everyone starts their day early, at 6.45am, with a glass of lukewarm magnesium sulphate, known as ‘bitter water’, designed to stimulate detox via the liver and gallbladder. It also has a robust laxative effect. I pace my room until everything that needs…
The author Sholem Aleichem got it right when he wrote in the 1899 short story “Hanukkah Gelt”, “Can you guess, children, which is the best of all holidays? Hanukkah, of course.... You eat latkes every day.” These crisp potato pancakes have been…
