by ruthgoldstein@comcast.net | Jul 19, 2020 | Food
Serves 8-10, or 10-12 as a layer cake Wacky Cake, with its host of pseudonyms—Cockeyed Cake, Crazy Cake, Three-Hole Cake, War Cake—is an invention of the 1940s, when war rationing limited the use of butter, eggs and milk. That’s a good thing for today’s... 
by ruthgoldstein@comcast.net | Aug 24, 2025 | Food
Serves 4 After more than a quarter century of experimentation, I’ve finally cracked the code to making the juiciest, tastiest, most cohesive meatloaf I have ever experienced since becoming vegetarian more than fifty years ago. Two modifications took my plant-based... 
by ruthgoldstein@comcast.net | Oct 17, 2024 | Food
Serves 8 I hacked this from an existing (wildly popular) vegan ribs recipe because my brother is a newly diagnosed diabetic and I wanted to cut down on the carbs from barbecue sauce or breadcrumbs in a traditional meatloaf. I also wanted to create an experience... 
by ruthgoldstein@comcast.net | Sep 23, 2024 | Food
Makes 1 quart, 4 1-cup servings I started making my own yogurt more than fifty years ago when I joined my first whole foods co-op as a college student in Pittsburgh, met my first vegetarian and macrobiotic foodies, and tasted yogurt for the first time. From that point... 
by ruthgoldstein@comcast.net | Jan 29, 2021 | Essays
By RUTH GOLDSTEIN FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN |NOV 18, 2019 I think I might be a sleeper spy someone forgot to wake up. By Fox News standards, I’m basically a Dreamer: My parents came from Canada and my grandparents (all four) emigrated from Ukraine when it was still part... 
by ruthgoldstein@comcast.net | Jan 29, 2021 | Essays
By RUTH GOLDSTEIN FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN |OCT 23, 2020 In a conventional war, if you know where the enemy is you know where to take a stand. Famous front lines have even gone down in history — Gettysburg, Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge. This war against the... 
by ruthgoldstein@comcast.net | Jan 29, 2021 | Essays
By RUTH GOLDSTEIN FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN |JAN 22, 2020 While there is universal agreement among members of a free society that everyone deserves a dignified life, the right to a dignified death is not yet guaranteed for every Maryland citizen. That might be... 
by ruthgoldstein@comcast.net | Jan 27, 2021 | Food
The BLT has always had a natural affinity for summer. For twelve short weeks, when the local tomato harvest is flooding farmers markets and home gardens are overflowing, this savory, juicy, crunchy trifecta rules. Unless of course, you don’t eat bacon. Although you... 
by ruthgoldstein@comcast.net | Jan 25, 2021 | Food
Serves 4-6 Since tagine is both a dish that you eat and the vessel it is cooked in, the term itself can be confusing right from the start. The traditional vessel is a Moroccan clay pot that looks like a conical pointy hat, allowing accumulated steam to help cook the... 
by ruthgoldstein@comcast.net | Dec 5, 2020 | Food
2 generous cups As a soy curls novice, I am still learning their ways and wiles, but even after just a few forays I can see the wisdom of sorting for size for different applications. Seeing as how one 8-oz. package yields about 4 oz. of strips and 4. oz. of small... 
by ruthgoldstein@comcast.net | Nov 24, 2020 | Food
Makes 18-20 2-inch cookies If you’re from Baltimore (Bawlmer, hon), you know about the lore (and lure) of Otterbein Cookies, those thin crispy discs of baking perfection that are right up there with Old Bay seasoning in the Charm City foodie pantheon. These Otterbein...