Coconut & Lime

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

Rachel conducted a cooking demonstration at the Maryland Sustainable Living Festival on May 23, 2009 at the Carroll County Farm Museum. She demonstrated how to make this salad.

MSN’s Delish.com named Coconut & Lime one of the top 50 food blogs. Check out the whole list here.

If you are in the Chesapeake Bay area, be sure to check out Rachel’s bimonthly column, Simply Seasonal in Taste of the Bay magazine.

On October 13, 2008 Rachel spoke at BlogHer DC. She discussed on how online community building can be an amazing tool to raise awareness of causes about which you are passionate, and an amazing tool to drive political action. Read the highlights of on the panel here.

Rachel contributed a recipe to the Neighbors Project’s Bodega In A Box cookbook which is available for sale right now. Proceeds help fund the Food & Liquor project which aims to encourage locally owned corner stores and bodegas to carry fresh produce and other Neighbors Project initiatives. The Bodega in a Box has all you need to hold a party using only ingredients found at the corner bodega: a cookbook full of recipes, shopping tips, invitations and even a shopping bag and party decorations.

Rachel is now contributing seasonal recipes to ChesapeakeFoodie.com, a website devoted to “everything delicious about the Chesapeake Bay”.

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 the June issue of 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.

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 nearly 800 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.

 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 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.

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 and issue 16, featuring two recipes for deviled eggs, here..

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

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.

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 Specialon 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.

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. 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.

In February 2008 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!