Hélène Jawhara—Piñer
By Hélène Jawhara—Piñer
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Food Adafina, a Sephardic Shabbat stew
Adefina, adafina, dafina, aní, hamín, caliente, trasnochado. All these names refer to one thing: the quintessential Shabbat dish of the Sephardic Jews of the 15th century. It was commonly known under different names, and this would have been one way Jews were able to deceive Inquisition officials, as this dish would have revealed the makers…
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Food Swiss chard stew with chickpeas
This recipe is reprinted with permission from Hélène Jawhara Piñer “Sephardi: Cooking the History.” In an Inquisition trial record from July 13, 1590, we learn that Catalina Albarez, a conversa, prepared a dish with meat (from which she had carefully removed the fat), Swiss chard, and chickpeas. The recipe below, acelgas con garbanzos in Spanish,…
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Recipes Goodbye Latkes, Hello Tortitas De Acelga For Hanukkah!
This Hanukkah, let’s put aside latkes and make tortitas de acelga, otherwise known as Swiss chard patties, a beloved fried dish from Southern Spain. When I was young, I used to help my grandmother by preparing the holiday menu for Hanukkah. Latkes have never been a part of our culinary customs, but there was always…
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Recipes Use Your Etrog After Sukkot For This Fragrant Eggplant Dish
I was sifting through the Kitāb al-ṭabīẖ, the oldest cookbook of the Iberian Peninsula, looking for highlights of Spanish-Jewish culinary heritage in the 13th-century Arabic recipes, when I realized that I had stumbled on a very unique one, prepared with an etrog: “Eggplant dish with saffron.” You might ask, “Why could it be special for…
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