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Passover will be unlike anything that most of us have ever experienced before. This is what it looks like in my kitchen, so far. I am cleaning, but not with my usual zeal. I have a fair amount of kosher L’Pesach products, but this year I will be forgiving, and will use substitutions, within reason. […]
Even though I should be focusing on Thanksgiving, yesterday I spent three hours making Pierogi for the first time, and froze them to serve for Shabbat after the big day. Having eaten some last week in NYC, they have been on my mind ever since. So after having our fill of food that we have […]
Recently my sister asked me if I ever think about our mother. I was more than slightly surprised by the question, but Anita explained that I don’t often bring her up in our conversations. She’s right, I don’t speak of her very much, but still she is never far from my thoughts, especially around the […]
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 […]
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