March 25, 2015
When it comes to the exodus of the Israelites from ancient Egypt, the central narrative of the Jewish observance of Passover: maybe it happened, maybe it didn’t happen exactly the way it is written in Torah. What we can imagine is that there was a great deal... Read more
February 17, 2015
My Bubbe used to say that cabbage was the perfume of the shtetl. How she knew this growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania, I’ll never know, but there is no question that stuffed cabbage, braised cabbage and stewed cabbage are Jewish culinary staples. After all, cabbage... Read more
January 24, 2014
Around 10 p.m. on New Year’s Day, I crept into the bedroom where my dear husband, Chris, was sleeping off the effects of the previous night’s partying. I gently shook him awake, and when he saw what I was holding – a paper plate of black-eyed... Read more