Alix Wallis a freelance writer in Oakland, Calif. where she specializes in Jews, love and food.
Alix Wall
By Alix Wall
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Books Taste Testing ‘Honey & Co.’
This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking her guests what they think of the results. She recently cooked her way through “Honey & Co: the Cookbook,” by Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer (Little, Brown and Company). Itamar…
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Books ‘Vilna Vegetarian’ and Me
Born in in 1910, my grandmother Rachela Pupko Krinsky Melezin was a Vilner through and through. When I told her, during college, that I was becoming vegetarian — that the days of devouring her kreplach and piroshki were over — she took it as most Jewish grandmothers would. I wish I could have directed her…
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Food A Translation Tsuris
Yiddish scholar Eve Jochnowitz talks about Eve Jochnowitz, who teaches Yiddish language, culture and literature at YIVO and The Workmen’s Circle, says she found herself up against some formidable challenges when translating the “Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook,” by Fania Lewando, from Yiddish to English. Converting weights to measures and metric quantities to English was only one….
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Recipes Taste Testing ‘Yogurt Culture’ for Shavuot
This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking her guests what they think of the results. For Shavuot, she cooked her way through “Yogurt Culture: A Global Look at How to Make, Bake, Sip, and Chill the World’s…
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Books A Perfectly Modern Passover
This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking those friends what they think of the results. For Passover, the writer cooked her way through “Modern Jewish Cooking: Recipes & Customs for Today’s Kitchen,” by Forward writer and contributing…
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Food Taste Testing ‘The Covenant Kitchen’
A new cookbook offers everyday recipes and modern twists on Jewish classics, with wine pairings. This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking what they think of the results. For Purim, she cooked her way through “The Covenant…
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Food At Bar Tartine, Jewish Food Is Part of the Mix
Family influences abound in the kitchen and the cookbook. At San Francisco’s Bar Tartine, the chef’s Lithuanian Jewish grandmother shows up regularly in the kitchen — or rather, her spirit does. “Family influences are our strongest inspiration,” Cortney Burns writes with co-author and co-chef Nicolaus Balla in their intro to “Bar Tartine: Techniques & Recipes.”…
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Food Cooking From ‘The Seven Fruits’
This is a sporadic column by Bay Area personal chef Alix Wall, in which she evaluates a cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing them with friends and asking what they think of the results. Just in time for Tu B’Shvat (“The New Year of the Trees”), she cooks her way through “The Seven…
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