Aliza Sherman
By Aliza Sherman
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Food What’s for Dinner? Tackling Jewish Guilt at the Dinner Table
A Jewish mother buys her son a red shirt and a blue shirt. He puts on the red shirt. “What, you didn’t like the blue one?” We all know this classic stereotype of Jewish guilt. But, today’s Jewish mom guilt comes in a different form. We don’t make others feel guilty — we are busy…
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Food Baking Mandel Bread, From Generation to Generation
When it snows, I bake. This past snowstorm, I wanted to try something new (and old), mandelbrodt or mandel bread. An Eastern European Jewish dessert, which literally means almond bread, is in essense Jewish biscotti. Biscotti means “twice baked” in Italian and the double baking processes — once in a loaf form and once after…
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Food On Not Wasting Food
I am conscious of the meat, dairy and vegetables that I buy and the meals I prepare, but unfortunately, until recently I never gave a good look at how much waste my family produces. Jonathan Bloom’s new book [“American Wasteland, How America Throws Away Nearly Half of its Food (and what we can do about…
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Food Fighting Food Demons with Kashrut
My first roommate nine years ago told me a secret to stop snacking at night: eat one small piece of sliced turkey. Then, as someone who keeps kosher, I wouldn’t be tempted to eat any dairy cookies or ice cream for the rest of the night. It actually worked. Another kosher diet success story was…
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Food iCarly’s Spaghetti Tacos and Making Kosher Cool
I am ever-amazed and conscious of how much peer pressure plays into what we eat. I keep a kosher home and choose to eat only kosher meat outside the house. I feel safe sending my son to school at the JCC because it is kosher, but each time he goes to secular back-up care, I…
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