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 I tend to think of this book as a useful but outdated spring from which American culinary interest flowed.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 wrote a book review and reflection on my experience of Judaism on my personal blog. Since the book, and the post, are of general Jewish interest I am sharing the link here as well.
Cheryl Katz | Books: Those Who Save Us
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
I bumped into a friend/reader yesterday who asked me, completely sincerely, why I don’t try turkey bacon in place of the real thing.
There is so much truth to be told on this subject, but underneath it all, I truly never thought of it because I don’t think of turkey bacon as food, despite the fact [...]
By Cheryl Katz
In her autobiography, My Life in France, Julia wrote that she told herself early on to always serve every dish she prepared with pride, even when it turned out completely off plan. To always do her best and never to apologize.
Her words echoed in my head this weekend as I gave an evening celebration on [...]
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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By Cheryl Katz
In my last post, about omelettes, I ribbed on myself for cutting my teeth on easily kosher-ized recipes.
But something I’ve been percolating on lately is what kashrut is really all about, and I think that I obliquely touched on a piece of it in that last post.
To make a kosher meat omelette, one needs to [...]
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By Cheryl Katz
By now it’s probably pretty obvious that my head isn’t 100% in the cooking yet.
(I’ve baked a few loaves of French bread since my last post, but I wasn’t faithful to any Julia Child recipe, nor was it any challenge to make it a pareve product – there’s neither dairy nor meat involved in bread.)
I’m [...]
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