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2021: The Year in Jewish Food
December 28, 2021

2021: The Year in Jewish Food

Uncategorized by FunJoel0 comments

In what has now become an annual tradition, I’d like to welcome you to my Jewish Food Year in Review. To see how much (or little) has changed since last year, here is 2020’s Year in Jewish Food post. While the world has not yet fully emerged from under the cloud of the Covid-19 pandemic, there was a lot to […]

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Respectfully Responding to Reem Kassis (Re: Bagels)
April 13, 2021

Respectfully Responding to Reem Kassis (Re: Bagels)

Classic Foods by FunJoel1 comment

If you spend time reading on the Internet about food history or Middle Eastern cuisine, chances are you recently saw a post by Palestinian-American cookbook author Reem Kassis in which she claimed that the bagel has origins in the Arab kitchen. I first came across it when my friend Sarah forwarded me an article from Serious Eats in which Ms. […]

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Jews Were the Original Culinary Movers and Shakers (Literally)
August 4, 2020

Jews Were the Original Culinary Movers and Shakers (Literally)

Research by FunJoel1 comment

In my post about Bourekas, I touched on some of the culinary results of the Jewish forced migration following the Spanish Expulsion of 1492. Primarily, however, that focused on the effect it had on a Jewish food (i.e. an internally-focused discussion). In a later post about foods whose Jewish connection was less known, I spoke more about how our moves […]

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Bagel, Knish & Haroset, Oh My! (On Books About Iconic Jewish Foods)
July 15, 2020

Bagel, Knish & Haroset, Oh My! (On Books About Iconic Jewish Foods)

Books by FunJoel5 comments

Of all the books I’ve come across during my research into Jewish Food, there are many wonderful ones (and some that are less great, too, of course). They fall into a wide array of categories, from cookbooks to histories, dry-but-informative academic texts to just entertaining (whether more or less informative). One of the more interesting breakdowns I’ve encountered is how […]

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Jewish Food? What’s THAT?!
May 7, 2020

Jewish Food? What’s THAT?!

Research by FunJoel3 comments

Anyone who has been following this blog even slightly since its launch, over the last month or so, knows I use the term “Jewish Food” a lot. And if you’ve heard any of my Food Talks over the past few years, or read the “About this Site” page, you know some of my thoughts on the concept. But a recent […]

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