America

Norht and South America.

Ragalach or rugalach? To make it more confusing, we have found ready made versions of this pastries in shops under the names ragelach and rugelach. Whatever the name, these pastries will always be a New Jersey thing to us. This recipe is a cream cheese version of the Jewish rugalach as prepared by New Jersey home cook of Italian ascent.

Many of us recognize cranberries as a New World fruit that is available around Thanksgiving and the holiday season as a sauce to go with roast turkey. Others know about the healthful chacartheristics of cranberry juice.

The basic ingredients are straightforward enough, though some of them may require a bit of digging to locate. There's quite a bit of preparation to make a fine mole, but the effort is worth it, as a taste of the results will prove.

This is one of the recipes that came to Arizona from Mexico; probably based in the typical quesadillas - corn tortillas filled with meat, cheese, or vegetables, and baked - also very popular. Corn tortillas are used in place of the traditional lasagna sheets.