From Friday through Sunday Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders will hold festivities at St. Mark's Church, with altar building, live music, dancing and weekend workshops in creating sugar skulls, paper art, poetry and holiday bread.
His holiday bread (a round loaf made of white and organic whole rye flours, sourdough, yeast, sea salt and caraway seeds, studded with sour cherries, raisins and toasted walnuts) is another favorite.
Loyal patrons swarm their favorite bakers like locusts far in advance with huge holiday bread orders.
Faicco's Pork Store, in Greenwich Village, keeps 16-ounce tubs of fresh lard on hand, for $1.19, primarily for clients who bake traditional holiday breads.
Remember that Passover is the holiday where bread and bread products are not eaten for 8 days.
The bakery, a den of yeasty temptation that snuffs out any hope for low-carb dieting in the region, got me with its holiday fruit bread ($5.75) studded with sour cherries, raisins and walnuts, and fruit crostatas ($4.25), literally dripping with rhubarb and strawberry.
Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders, has turned the yard of St. Mark's Church in the East Village into a festival site, with an altar for remembrances and workshops associated with the holiday: baking bread, cutting paper flowers, writing poetry and making the signature confection, sugar skulls.
When the older chickens at the poultry sheds where he worked were culled, Rezak would bring down one of the healthier birds, asking the teahouse to cook it, as a holiday from his bread diet.
Gift ideas include: bookmarks, framed family photos you have taken over the year, holiday cookies or breads, or "cookie kits" (the flour, sugar, baking powder, chocolate chips and other spices are layered in a plain Mason jar, and instructions attached to a piece of raffia or a ribbon letting them know what to add, whether it's water, oil, egg, or whatever).
It is best to reserve these cakes as well as bread for the holiday.
He sifted with slow, measured movements through banana peels, coffee grounds, the colorful spoils of unwrapped Christmas gifts and the bones and the bread crumbs from holiday meals.
