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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: The Hanukkah House that Canadians built: Inside the new Jewish gingerbread house trend
Description: In the holiday aisle of certain supermarkets, next to the chocolate Maccabees and Star of David cookies, you can find a "Hanukkah house cookie kit". A Jewish cousin to the classic Christmas gingerbread house, the DIY craft-meets-treat trend has sprung up in recent years, seeming more prominent now than ever before.
And, it turns out, they're made in Canada. Their maker is Give & Go Prepared Foods, a pastry-producing corporation based in Ontario, whose CEO is Joel Flatt, son of the Canadian philanthropist couple Ab and Phyllis Flatt.
This holiday season, their cookie-cutter houses are being...