Thursday December 26, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
"Memories of the Yiddish Kitchen” invites you to join our workshop at YNY and contribute to the 5th edition of our collaborative YNY cookbook. The celebrated folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (NYU, POLIN Museum-Warsaw) will get the conversation going with food memories of her own, among them her grandfather’s favorite dish (beef testicles grilled on a hot shovel), her grandmother’s favorite dish (sautéed lung, spleen, and beef cheeks), her mother’s favorite (ptsha: calf’s foot jelly), a family favorite (pickled tongue), her aunt’s speciality (stuffed spleen), her mother’s beloved blote (sour cream and chopped radish, cucumber, scallions, and dill) and shtshav (cold sour sorrel soup), her maternal grandfather’s Passover raisin wine, and our family’s beloved for soup nuts (mandln), eyerlekh, helzl, and potato-nik. These are among the largely forgotten foods of the Yiddish kitchen, to say nothing of the ganef-kneydl (thief’s dumpling) in tsholnt. Other foods continue to be debated with greater or lesser fervor: gefilte fish, latkes, matzoh balls, kugel, bagels, and more. Still others, beloved and remembered, either still grace the table or we wish they did, but have forgotten how to make them from scratch or at all: farfl, kreplekh, rosl, and flodn.
Bring your memories, bring your recipes, and bring your requests!
Please send whatever you can in advance to ynyncoordinator@gmail.com by December 15.
- Use letter size paper, vertical
- Send scans, saved as jpgs, of photos and drawings, recipes (handwritten or typed, your own and any that were handed down to you)
- Send typed texts in Word, not PDFs
Barbara will share her mother’s (vegan) split pea barley soup, tips for making the best old-school potato latkes, the secret to perfect kasha, and more.
This presentation will originate remotely and individuals at HUC are asked to attend on personal devices.
Speakers 
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University. She is currently Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Her books include Destination Culture: Tourism...
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Thursday December 26, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
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