Laura Silver
By Laura Silver
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Food Classic Knishes
Fannie Stahl’s granddaughters summoned recovered memories to bring this recipe to life. Toby Engelberg, who sold her knishes in the Bay Area for a while, enlisted the help of her elder cousin from New York, Sara Spatz, who, as a young woman, worked in her grandmother’s shop in Brighton Beach. I was there to learn….
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Food A Knish Tale, Wrapped in Old Newspaper
Photograph: Flickr Gussie Schwebel isn’t a household name — yet. But the Boroslav, Romania-born woman wrote herself into history when she wrote a letter to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt during World War II. Mrs. Schwebel ran an eponymous knish concern at 191 East Houston Street, just off Orchard Street (the former site of the recently…
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Food Gabila’s Knishes Up for Grabs on eBay
Knish lovers: Stop kvetching and start bidding. Three weeks after Gabila’s Long Island knish factory announced a shortage of fried potato pies due to a fire, a dozen fried potato pies in Knoxville, Tennessee were put up for auction. “WE HAVE THEM. YOU WANT THEM. BID NOW!” reads the ad, which advertises the knishes as…
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Food Ghosts of Knishes Past
I’m dressing as a knish for Halloween. And it’s not just for kitsch value. Not only is the yellow foam costume perfect for variable temperatures of autumn, it’s a link to those who came before and a symbol of a culinary tradition embedded in the Day of the Dead. In the Big Apple, the knish…
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News Wild, Wild West
Forget about “Blazing Saddles” — there really is Jewish history in them thar hills. Last May, I was heading to the Land of Enchantment — New Mexico — for a writing workshop and decided to indulge my curiosity about frontier Jews and their interactions with Native Americans. This is an interest I first cultivated a…
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News Star Celebrates the Holidays Wearing Three Hats
’Tis the season for Jerry Stiller. This year, the veteran comedian’s got his hands in festive ventures on all parts of the holiday spectrum. For Hanukkah, he’s the voice of a singing, dancing, latke-proffering doll; as Arthur Spooner on the CBS sitcom “The King of Queens,” he gave his daughter and son-in-law a Christmas present…
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News When the Past Becomes Safe Enough To Revisit
Once upon a time, back in the halcyon days of the 1980s, there was celebrated a Jewish rite of passage known as the bar or bat mitzvah. Upon arriving at such an affair, one was greeted with a sign-in board adorned with photos of the celebrant; the assembled were dressed in an array of cringe-inducing…
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