Jo Ann Gardner
By Jo Ann Gardner
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Recipes Country Rhubarb Wine
If you would like to try making the country wine you’ll first have to locate a supply of rhubarb, an old-fashioned fruit, really a vegetable, once common in the countryside in old gardens and farms. Through the month of June, you’ll find it in farmer’s markets. In the city, it’s available through July from green…
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Food Lunch With Ruth and Boaz
The Book of Ruth is read on Shavuot because, like the holiday, it takes place during the wheat harvest (first barley, then wheat) and because its heroine, Ruth, also accepts the Torah, Shavuot’s historical theme. It is one of the most universally beloved of all Bible stories, a romance that culminates in the unlikely joining…
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Recipes Fresh Zesty Dandelion Salad
Once considered nothing more than a pesky weed, it is now a gourmet green. Just take a look at the four delicious dandelion-green recipes below. Even though we now live near a supermarket after years in the remote countryside, we still strive to grow as much of our food as we can and we still…
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Food Is Horseradish the Real Bitter Herb?
Thinkstock Only a Jewish plant lover with a penchant for the unusual could get naches from maror, the bitter herbs of Passover. These are the plants never named in the Bible except as merorim (singular, maror), which the Haggadah tells us to eat as a bitter reminder of the embittered lives of our enslaved ancestors…
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