Category: personal history

The Blessings of a Black Radish: On Abundance, Scarcity, and COVID-19

One Passover a few years back, I took it upon myself to try one of the most shtetl-tastic foods out there: the black radish. It’s rarely found in the United States today aside from occasional appearances around Passover and Rosh Hashanah, but the black radish is the most ancient type of radish, as well as […]

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Panadería Brooklyn: Meyer Lemon Curd Rugelach

Everywhere my grandmother lived, she planted a Meyer lemon tree in her backyard.

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Introducing Panadería Brooklyn: Mexican Black-and-White Cookies

“Dozens of kosher restaurants, bakeries and cafes with Yiddish and Hebrew signs lined Brooklyn Avenue . . . The aroma of burritos and challah bread mingled outside greengrocers and bathhouses, union halls and movie houses. Mariachi and klezmer tunes drifted from apartment windows. Socialists and Zionists argued on street corners in Yiddish and Spanish.”—Reed Johnson, […]

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