Stacey Pfeffer
By Stacey Pfeffer
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Food This Jewish family has been making honey wine for 150 years
(JTA) — This article originally appeared on Kveller. Rachel Lipman cares deeply about preserving her Jewish family’s fifth-generation winemaking business, Loew Vineyards, but the 28-year-old is keeping an eye on the future, too. As one of the youngest winemakers in Maryland — if not the youngest — she’s pushing through boundaries in a traditionally male-dominated…
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Food Just in time for Rosh Hashanah, mead makes a comeback
Mead is back. Rachel Lipman, a fifth-generation winemaker at Loew Vineyards, believes that the honey wine’s heyday is just around the corner. It’s a “very underrated” beverage, said Lipman, at the Mount Airy, Maryland winery owned by her grandfather Bill Loew. Before World War II, Lvov (formerly part of Poland, currently now part of Ukraine)…
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Life The Power Of Grating Potatoes This Hanukkah
There it stood on my quartz countertop. I wanted to put it away tucked neatly away in a drawer, or push it towards the back of my cabinet in the land of occasionally used cooking appliances — but I couldn’t. I liked to look at it while I did the dishes. It had lost much…
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