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Welcome to the home of Rachel Rappaport, food writer, recipe creator and the mastermind beyond the award winning food blog, Coconut & Lime.

 Check out the July/August 2008 issue of Figure Magazine for a mention of Coconut & Lime and one of Rachel’s original recipes:  blueberry-ginger granita.

 Rachel & her recipes were featured in a post on the Washington Post website, Cooling off with Hot Food Writers.

Rachel and Coconut & Lime was featured in an article about Baltimore bloggers in Baltimore Magazine.

Rachel Rappaport started blogging four years ago to share her recipes with friends. Though she was trained as a school teacher, the 28-year-old Lauraville resident has a natural skill in the kitchen and a desire to let others in on her cooking secrets….

Each month, 100,000 unique visitors click over to see what she’s making. When she’s not typing up her recipes for things like her award winning tangerine dream cookies or pumpkin swirl brownies, she’s trying to respond to the approximately 100 e-mails readers send her each day. She has won numerous cooking and blogging awards and has been interviewed by major media outlets on everything from seasonal produce to recipe copyright laws.

If you are in the Chesapeake Bay area, be sure to check out Rachel’s new bimonthly column, Simply Seasonal in Taste of the Bay magazine. May’s article is all about beets and includes a fabulous recipe that even beet haters will love.

Rachel  helped a single mother come up with new ideas for healthy, easy dinners to serve to her two picky daughters in May 14, 2008’s edition of Make Over My Meal in the Baltimore Sun. Read the article here.

 Read an interview with Rachel over on Simmer ’til Done.

Rachel was interviewed for an April 23, 2008 article about matzo brei for the New York Sun. It includes one of her original recipes for Everything Matzo Brei. Read it here.

 Rachel was interviewed on the Daily Special on ElasticWaist.com about “passover-friendly foods, quick weeknight meals, and what to keep in the pantry so you’ll never go hungry” on 4/18/08.

Rachel appeared on 88.1 WYPR to talk about food on April 8, 2008 at 9:40 AM EST and talked about food blogging, smearcase and rhubarb . If you missed it, you can download the podcast.

Recipes mentioned during the broadcast:
smearcase
rhubarb cupcakes with fluffy rhubarb frosting
rhubarb-strawberry compote

 An article Rachel wrote about old time Baltimore favorite smearcase is in the Spring  2008 issue of Edible Chesapeake and includes an original recipe for the dessert.

If you are in Bulgaria, you can see her recipes in Traffic magazine. You can download a PDF of issue 15, featuring her recipe for Indian-Spiced Peanuts, here.

On this site you can learn more about Rachel her recipe blog, all about her food writing, and all of the awards Rachel and her blog have won and what the media is saying.
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Don’t forget to visit Coconut & Lime the home to over 650 of Rachel’s mouth watering original recipes, helpful cooking tips and illustrated tutorials. Or visit Food Maven and read her product and restaurant reviews, food articles and news.

Other news & updates:

A reporter from the News-Sentinel interviewed Rachel about her food blog. Read the article here.

Rachel was interviewed for a March 16, 2008 article in the Baltimore Sun about marshmallows. Read it here. There’s even a how-to photo gallery of Rachel making the marshmallows.

Rachel was interviewed for an article about Purim recently. Read her thoughts on hamantashen here.

You might have seen Rachel on an episode of Take Home Handyman on TLC. The episode was called Foodie Fantasy: Rachel and Matt.

This February Rachel was part of a panel of food bloggers at the Great Tastes show in Baltimore, MD .

Rachel was interviewed for a December 9, 2007 article in the LA Times about saving money on groceries. Read it here.

Rachel is now a member of the Cookthinktank on Cookthink.com.

People are talking about Rachel and her blog! Read the article in the November 2007 issue of Style for all the scoop!