Our family was very small. None of my mother’s siblings had survived the war, but my father had two brothers and a sister that lived close by. His oldest brother, Uncle Jack, was the debonair one in the family, always beautiful dressed with his Homburg perched perfectly on his head. Jack had emigrated to France [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tomatoes’
Salmon with Diced Tomatoes
Posted in Fish, Shavuot, tagged Garlic, Onions, Salmon Recipe, Tomatoes on November 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Rachel’s Eggplant Salad
Posted in Appetizer, Salad, tagged Eggplant, Israeli eggplant dish, salad, Sephardic food, Side Dish, Tomatoes on September 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Growing up, all of my parents’ friends were Polish Jews. As immigrants, they wanted to surround themselves with people who had similar experiences and backgrounds, people who shared common customs, language, and food. It wasn’t until I was a teenager that I met Jews who looked different, spoke Hebrew or Ladino (as opposed to Yiddish), [...]
Spring Salads
Posted in Salad, Side Dish, Vegetable, tagged cabbage, coleslaw, cucumbers, Food, herbs, lettuce, recipes, salad, Tomatoes on May 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I am not sure when salads graduated from their humble beginnings to the gourmet status they have today, but I no longer dread eating them. Growing up in the Bronx of the 1950s, salads were tolerated and eaten because iceberg lettuce filled the need for a vegetable. No one worried about carbon footprints because there were [...]
My parents, Miriam and Harry Graf, were both originally from small towns near Warsaw, Poland, from families who were religious Zionists. In my father’s hometown of Warka, he and his brothers were active in the Revisionist movement in the 1930s. My mother’s older brother had tickets on a liner to Palestine but the war broke [...]
