Jane Ziegelman and Liza Schoenfein
By Jane Ziegelman and Liza Schoenfein
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Culture Foraging for the perfect shtetl recipe: Mushroom barley soup then and now
What can a Jewish cookbook from 1946 tell us about the 21st-century Jewish-American experience? Liza Schoenfein, the Forward’s senior food writer, and Jane Ziegelman, a culinary historian, took our signature collection of Yiddish recipes off the shelf and found a direct line from the balaboostas of yore to the kitchens of today. In this installment,…
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Culture Pot Roast Then & Now: A spicy tale of Jewish mothers and daughters
What can a Jewish cookbook from 1946 tell us about the 21st-century Jewish-American experience? Liza Schoenfein, the Forward’s senior food writer, and Jane Ziegelman, a culinary historian, took our signature collection of Yiddish recipes off the shelf and found a direct line from the balaboostas of yore to the kitchens of today. How Home Economics…
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