as opposed to the Sephardic Jews of Spain/Portugal/North Africa) tradition is here: gefilte fish and cholent and nut cakes for Passover and all the different dumplings (kreplach and mandlen and halkes and piroshki and varenikes) and so many recipes for tongue and blintzes and strudel dough and borsht
you can decide instead to make chicken parcels with lemon and sesame—a really delightful dinner
Edna Lewis
which are fragrant and sweet and can elevate a piece of toast with so little effort it feels like magic
and to finish by doing the dishes is powerful for the soul
How to Cook and Eat in Chinese by Buwei Yang Chao related-chez-panisse-pasta-pizza-calzone as opposed to the SephardicHow to communicate a culture? History books are unreliable without the context of everything they exclude. Anthropology asks the world not to question the anthropologist or his particular biases, experiences, traumas, and psychological eccentricities. And the other disciplinesliterature, math, science, philosophyvery often fail to include those on the margins: women, ethnic minorities, the poor. But everyone eats! And while every culture has its