By Cheryl Katz
We hosted our annual expansive and welcoming seder yesterday – a day early due to some scheduling difficulties. It’s the first large gathering I’ve tried to host that involved plated service for almost 15 (including the kids.) It’s also the first time I prepared nearly everything that was served, a departure from previous pot-luck, family-style [...]
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By Cheryl Katz
And do not for a moment let my extended withdrawal from writing here indicate that the Jew and Julia project hasn’t been at every moment present in my heart.
It means only that, good gravy, my life got busy and complicated lately.
This road trip vacation from which the Katzen not-so-recently returned (in November) was an adventure [...]
By Cheryl Katz
I had to post from out of nowhere when I read this Mental Floss post about Irma Rombauer andThe Joy of Cooking. I tend to think of this book as a useful but outdated spring from which American culinary interest flowed. I didn’t know that Rombauer was a first-generation American, nor that she was admittedly [...]
By Cheryl Katz
With a month to go, time is getting short to share my big news of the hour:
I’m going to culinary school!
I’ll be attending a great program in San Diego with a reputation for well-trained, employable chefs; it’s geared toward people like me who have a degree, have had a career and are looking for specific [...]
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By Cheryl Katz
I’ve spent some time recently with my many tomes on Jewish food… all of which contain snippets of history but none of which tell me what I want to know.
I can find a page or two sketching out the history of Jews in France between approximately 800 and 1300 CE, for example, but no trace [...]
By Cheryl Katz
I am by no means a person (woman, Jew) without food issues. I was a chubby kid growing up, though that never stopped me eating what I liked, and I was also an active kid so that largely balanced things out. I got heavier when I became a bookworm, got skinnier when I became interested [...]
By Cheryl Katz
This is the reduced essence of a recent conversation with my husband, because my Jew/Julia project is only beginning to take shape in my mind, inasmuch as something can take shape when it’s a step by step recounting of a journey, from beginning to end.
I can’t commit to cooking the whole book. I simply [...]
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