I’m just going to say it: I love bread. If it were socially acceptable, there’d be a baguette sticking out of my purse at all times. A bagel with cream cheese and nova is on my last meal short list and bread pudding makes my knees go weak. I’m a fan of all of bread’s…
My new year’s resolution was not to eat bread that I didn’t make. Between December 31st and January 1st, this already proved too difficult, so I scaled it back to not purchasing bread. In other words, if I wanted bread, I’d have to make it. I’ve already mastered my classic challah recipe (which is actually…
Passover always feels both repetitious and fresh. Every year we are asked to tell the story of enslavement and redemption anew, asked to go through the same motions, dip our fingers in the wine again the same number of times. But there is another imperative — not just to remember our own historic moment of…
Jews who want to challenge the community use foods as a way symbolizing those challenges on the most heartfelt of Jewish rituals: the Passover seder. Each day, we will examine a different food and what it means. In 1997 I wrote a book with the title “Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and…
“Right after Purim,” a friend told me the other day, “we stop buying any more hametz [leavened bread products]. We have just four weeks to use up everything that we already have in the house!” Her strategy is a common one. As the holiday of Passover approaches, a holiday where Jews search for, remove and…
Bread: Laffa Im Za’atar Mandel Bread Mark Talisman’s Bagels Yid. Dish: Bread Machine Egg Bread Yid.Dish: Beer Bread (AKA Emergency-Use-Up-My-Beer-Before-Passover Bread) Yid. Dish: Onion and Gruyere Tart Yid.Dish: Banana Bread Yid.Dish: Banana Bundt Cake Yid.Dish: Beer Bread from the Edge of Irony Yid.Dish: Chocolate Chocolate Chip Zucchini Loaf Yid.Dish: Cranberry Bread Yid.Dish: Herbed Pizza Dough…
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In the past few years, I’ve struggled to reconcile being a non-believer with my love of Jewish culture and traditions. So I’ve wavered back and forth on keeping Passover and fasting on Yom Kippur, the two most intrinsic rituals of self-deprivation for the sake of enlightenment on the Jewish calendar. This year, after a few…
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