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Updates (about me and others)
January 30, 2023

Updates (about me and others)

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Just a few quick updates about my work, and also about a few friends and colleagues. First and foremost, I want to announce my upcoming return lecture tour in the United States! After a very successful trip in the fall of 2021 (the picture above is from my homecoming lecture in the synagogue I grew up attending), I have booked […]

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Jewish Cuisine in Hungary – From the Jewish Food Bookshelf
October 28, 2022

Jewish Cuisine in Hungary – From the Jewish Food Bookshelf

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As the most globalized nation on Earth, the Jewish people are extremely diverse. And our cuisine is thus equally varied, with each subcommunity’s foods representing the specific conditions of that group. Therefore, a huge part of the Jewish Food Bookshelf is comprised of books that look at the unique gastronomy of Jews in a specific region, such as Persia, Algeria, […]

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New Passover Foods For Your Seder
March 31, 2022

New Passover Foods For Your Seder

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I often hear people asking for new Passover foods, bored with the same stuff all the time. And while I clearly respect tradition, for this holiday especially I feel there is at least an argument to be made for not exclusively cooking what your mother and grandmother did. (Years ago, I even wrote an article — with recipes — just […]

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2021: The Year in Jewish Food
December 28, 2021

2021: The Year in Jewish Food

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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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The Jewish Food Bookshelf: Sephardi – Cooking the History
December 13, 2021December 21, 2021

The Jewish Food Bookshelf: Sephardi – Cooking the History

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With this post, I am inaugurating a new series on this blog, called “The Jewish Food Bookshelf.” I love Jewish Food History, and there are so many wonderful sources out there to get educated on the topic. In the past, I have tried to footnote and credit the many amazing books I have used as resources for my posts. And […]

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The Holocaust and Jewish Food History
April 7, 2021April 26, 2021

The Holocaust and Jewish Food History

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Yom HaShoah, Israel’s official Holocaust Remembrance Day, has just begun this evening. And so, I wanted to take a few minutes to write a post that relates to the day, as well as to Jewish Food History. Many of you may be wondering what there could possibly be to write about on this topic, and indeed it is largely a […]

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  • Jan 20, 2023 Food Wins at the National Jewish Book Awards 2022
  • Jan 08, 2023 2022: The Year in Jewish Food
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