Susan Barocas
Sweeten your seder with these Sephardic treats. Wishing you a Pesah Alegre!
Sweetly Sephardic for Passover
Tag: food
A Lighthearted Romp, Peppered with Yiddishisms
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Novelist Jane L. Rosen, author of the lighthearted romp, A Shoe Story chats with Lilith’s Yona Zeldis McDonough about what happens when we are offered a second chance.
A Mom, Not a Superhero: Debi Lewis On “Kitchen Medicine”
Mikhal Weiner
Parents break sometimes, and we put ourselves back together. But if we never see any stories of other people doing it, it makes us feel like monsters.
Saving Summer – Root, Stem and Leaf
Susan Barocas
Here are some pickling and preserving basics to follow as you create your own jars of year-round goodness
My Grandmother’s Favorite Dish
Beejhy Barhany
The first time I ate gomen was back in Ethiopia, after helping my grandma prepare it.
The Sufgania That Made Me Feel At Home In a Place That Rarely Felt Like One
Polina Kroik
I could never find the sufganiot of my Israeli childhood, the ones that my father bought for a couple of shekels in the local bakery and brought home unexpectedly one damp night.
Get Your Chill On
Susan Barocas
The first cold soup I ever tasted I hated. For years. How unfortunate that it was introduced to me (dare I say pushed on me?) by the two women I admired most, my mother and my small-but-mighty Russian grandmother.
Beyond the Ghetto Gates: The Liberation of Jews in Italy
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to novelist Michelle Cameron about her new novel “Beyond the Ghetto Gates”.
An Imaginary Quarter of a Food-Obsessed City
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Debut novelist Carmit Delman talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about how food becomes both marker and symbol for the haves and the have nots.