Comments on: Is This Food Jewish? http://jcarrot.org/is-this-food-jewish/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:16:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Avigail http://jcarrot.org/is-this-food-jewish/#comment-4252 Avigail Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:55:59 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/is-this-food-jewish/#comment-4252 This is a great question. Check out this post from a friend of mine who is blogging on the same subject across the country in (the amazing) Portland, OR. http://macaronimaniac.blogspot.com/2008/01/jew-gonna-eat-that.html This is a great question. Check out this post from a friend of mine who is blogging on the same subject across the country in (the amazing) Portland, OR.

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]]> By: Shev http://jcarrot.org/is-this-food-jewish/#comment-4210 Shev Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:42:42 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/is-this-food-jewish/#comment-4210 For me all Jewish Food begins with an onion and some salt. Saute an onion, it can become chopped liver; throw some of that sauteed onion in some beaten eggs with a vegetable, it's a quiche or a kugel; chunked and put in a pot with root vegetables and a little vinegar, it's borscht; put it in a pot with some chicken - it's Shabbat! I have inherited my mother's vivid memory of summer 1972 in London: there was a drought, and no onions. Yikes. For me all Jewish Food begins with an onion and some salt. Saute an onion, it can become chopped liver; throw some of that sauteed onion in some beaten eggs with a vegetable, it’s a quiche or a kugel; chunked and put in a pot with root vegetables and a little vinegar, it’s borscht; put it in a pot with some chicken - it’s Shabbat!

I have inherited my mother’s vivid memory of summer 1972 in London: there was a drought, and no onions. Yikes.

]]> By: SFMichele http://jcarrot.org/is-this-food-jewish/#comment-4172 SFMichele Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:47:31 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/is-this-food-jewish/#comment-4172 "What is Jewish Food?" As I learn more about Judaism, I am, as you'd think, looking closely at classic Ashkenazic Jewish foods and almost cliched deli foods for their genesis and evolution. However, I've come across a dish that seems to cross religious lines: cottage cheese and noodles with pepper. Although at least one food/recipe site seems to happily tab this as "a very Jewish food," I ate it as a child who was reared in a Catholic household in central Illinois! Perhaps, of course, the common link is that it appears to be Hungarian. My father, whose parents were both Slovak, evidently has Hungarian roots down the family tree trunk because of his surname and the spot in now-Slovakia from which the ancestors emigrated. OK, so that's not at all uncommon, this mixing of foods among communities, but still I got a funny thrill in finding a very, very humble dish to have connections in both groups... “What is Jewish Food?” As I learn more about Judaism,
I am, as you’d think, looking closely at classic
Ashkenazic Jewish foods and almost cliched deli foods
for their genesis and evolution. However, I’ve come across a dish that seems to cross religious lines:
cottage cheese and noodles with pepper. Although at least one food/recipe site seems to happily tab this
as “a very Jewish food,” I ate it as a child who was reared in a Catholic household in central Illinois! Perhaps, of course, the common link is that it appears to be Hungarian. My father, whose parents were both Slovak, evidently has Hungarian roots down the family tree trunk because of his surname and the spot in now-Slovakia from which the ancestors emigrated. OK, so that’s not at all uncommon, this mixing of foods among communities, but still I got a funny thrill in finding a very, very humble dish to have connections in both groups…

]]> By: Leah Koenig http://jcarrot.org/is-this-food-jewish/#comment-4128 Leah Koenig Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:49:55 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/is-this-food-jewish/#comment-4128 Thanks Judi - what are some of the best recipes you've collected. That sounds like a real treasure trove - have you thought of pulling them all together for some sort of cookbook? Thanks Judi - what are some of the best recipes you’ve collected. That sounds like a real treasure trove - have you thought of pulling them all together for some sort of cookbook?

]]> By: judi http://jcarrot.org/is-this-food-jewish/#comment-4123 judi Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:27:03 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/is-this-food-jewish/#comment-4123 Growing up, I was never a big fan of "Jewish Food"- the borscht, kugels, tzimmes... So it was a watershed moment when I got a copy of The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews as a gift, nearly 20 years ago. The dishes started with a few familiar ingredients, but then went off in a direction that was new, exciting- and appetizing. That was the beginning of a fascination with Jewish cuisines. I've collected Jewish recipes and food histories from pre-Inquisition Spain, Curacao, all over the Middle East, Africa, India... the list is huge. And it's all Jewish food! That said, if you ask my kids what Jewish food is, they'll probably say "hummus". Growing up, I was never a big fan of “Jewish Food”- the borscht, kugels, tzimmes…

So it was a watershed moment when I got a copy of The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews as a gift, nearly 20 years ago. The dishes started with a few familiar ingredients, but then went off in a direction that was new, exciting- and appetizing. That was the beginning of a fascination with Jewish cuisines. I’ve collected Jewish recipes and food histories from pre-Inquisition Spain, Curacao, all over the Middle East, Africa, India… the list is huge. And it’s all Jewish food!

That said, if you ask my kids what Jewish food is, they’ll probably say “hummus”.

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