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My “Machatenista” described it as Coronavirus Kashrut, and she’s right. Without any consistent set of guidelines to follow, every individual has to come up with their own set of protocols that they feel comfortable with. For some, the recommendations that do exist are more easily bent, for me it’s a struggle. The conversations in my […]
It was a combination of my 60th birthday celebration and a trip down memory lane. We chose to have a family vacation in Palm Springs, the place we travelled to six weekends a year, for a period of 20 years, visiting my in-laws, snowbirds who came from Toronto to soak up the sunshine and be […]
We are standing in the kitchen together again, as we have for more than 50 years, but this time we weren’t in her kitchen. The location doesn’t seem to matter, we have an easy rhythm that two people share when they are just happy to be together. Like a duet, effortless, even though we hadn’t […]
My colleague at work calls them her Divas In Training, the young women who cook with her every Sunday, learning to make the family recipes by her side. I had a similar experience this Passover when we were joined by young women for almost every holiday meal. The kitchen was filled with chitchat along with […]
Last week we went to see an Israeli documentary called The Breakfast Parliament about the privatization of Kibbutz Ein Tsurim and the impact on its’ members. The film focused on a group of Kibbutznikim who, for decades, had breakfast together in the dining hall until a vote decides that it is no longer economically feasible. […]
Last night I went to meet a jeweler who is doing some work for our family. Although I had spoken on the phone with Sol several times, I had not had the pleasure of meeting him. From his accent, I could tell that Sol had grown up in a country where he had spoken French […]
The Chanukah of my childhood bears little resemblance to how we now celebrate the holiday. Growing up there were three ways that a visitor to our home would recognize that it was Chanukah. Latkes were being fried in the kitchen, a Hanukkiah was prominently placed on the dining room table, and a dreidel or two […]
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