Just a brief post to let you know about two articles I have had published this week. My latest piece for The Nosher is up, and it is the interesting story of the Fleischmann’s Yeast family. I’d been thinking of writing this piece for a while, and find the story somewhat surprising and fun. As I write there, amid the […]
Tag: bread
Respectfully Responding to Reem Kassis (Re: Bagels)
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. […]
2020: The Year in Jewish Food
This past year is not likely to go down as many people’s favorite. (Yes, I am a master of understatement.) That’s why I’m looking forward to 2021, and why I chose to feature next year in this post’s main photo! But despite the many bad aspects of 2020, there were numerous positives in the world of Jewish Food this year […]
