Holiday delights

22.12.2011                      26.Kislev. 5772                       Channuka 2

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Holiday delights

Do Hanukka calories count? We surrendered to the new doughnuts, and so might you.

It’s tradition, and come Hanukka Israelis seem to forget about calories and go for the sweetest and richest doughnuts they can find. In recent years, bakeries around the country have been outdoing each other, trying to create the most imaginative doughnut ever, and this Hanukka they have come up with some very interesting ideas.
There will be 3,000 tons of doughnuts sold during the eight days of Hanukka (almost 14.5 billion calories), says Barry Shen, Pillsbury Israel’s director of sales. “The Israeli customer demands change in doughnuts as much as in every other field; and next to the traditional ones, we can find many innovations made by bakers who draw on new techniques and Oriental cuisine.”…