Category Archives: Law/Halakha

Early Pesach menu (quick, before it starts!)

29th
Mar. × ’10

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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

11th
Mar. × ’10

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 [...]

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Terms

14th
Aug. × ’09

As you may have guessed, the idea of this blog is to cook as many as possible of the recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking without violating Jewish dietary laws of Kashrut.
That said, there are a few premises that need to be accepted.  First, I won’t mention the process of kashering [...]

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