Category: personal history
The Blessings of a Black Radish: On Abundance, Scarcity, and COVID-19
March 27, 2020
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 […]
Panadería Brooklyn: Meyer Lemon Curd Rugelach
January 22, 2019
Everywhere my grandmother lived, she planted a Meyer lemon tree in her backyard.
Introducing Panadería Brooklyn: Mexican Black-and-White Cookies
July 23, 2018
“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, […]