Tag Archives: food

Polish Jew Carrying Cholent (Twitter)

Posted on November 18, 2022 by zjb

A Jew carries a pot of cholent [stew] to be cooked for the Sabbath. Photograph | Photograph Number: 11889 “A Jew carries a pot of cholent [stew] to be cooked for the Sabbath” Date Circa 1930 – 1939 Locale Poland … Continue reading →

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(Essence of Judaism) Sherry Herring (NYC)

Posted on November 15, 2022 by zjb

(W. 72nd Street between Broadway and West End Avenue) (Kaplan was right) “With this approach, the question of “why be a Jew?” loses its relevance. If Jewish life is a unique way of experience, it needs no further justification. We … Continue reading →

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Messy Kitchen Exodus from Egypt (Coronavirus Passover)

Posted on April 8, 2020 by zjb

Messy kitchen or perfect bourgeois Passover table? Honestly, which picture evokes better the sudden flight from bondage? Chag sameach!

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(Coronavirus) Hoarding Eggs in Israel (Passover)

Posted on April 6, 2020 by zjb

For anyone interested in the matrix created by foodways, religious culture and ritual, mass society, and social psychology and object cathexis in particular local contexts, and coronavirus.  Feel free to throw in bio-power. In Israel, this is now a grave … Continue reading →

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(Antique Foodways) Idle Talk (Ecclesiastes Rabbah)

Posted on October 20, 2019 by zjb

“All things toil to weariness, [a person] cannot utter it” (Eccles. 1;8). Idle talk wearies [a person]: “The partridge today is pickled with garlic.” The side of the [animal] is like lead.””Cut thin slices.” “Roasted with mustard.” “Portions which deserve … Continue reading →

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Bulls Will Then Be Offered at the Kasbah Messianic Grill (Thank God)

Posted on July 30, 2019 by zjb

At 251 WEST 85th Street, between Broadway and West End Avenue. From their website: Our story begins in New York City in the 1980s. The Dery brothers’ were born in Morocco and raised in Israel where they were greatly influenced by … Continue reading →

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(Brooklyn) Lamb (Paschal)

Posted on April 18, 2019 by zjb

(photo credit; Marta Braiterman Tanenbaum) Marta also posts: “Inside The Market Place, a huge, bustling new supermarket on East New York A,enue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Lubo<itch Hassidic, near “770 Eastern Parkway.” It’s really Schneerson-influenced here. Satmar, Bobo< and other … Continue reading →

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(Leviticus 11) Kashrus (Hertz Pentateuch)

Posted on March 31, 2019 by zjb

The discussion about the dietary laws in the Hertz Pentateuch commentary has a few interesting things about it. There is the sociological assertion that kashrut has proved historically to be “an important factor in the preservation of the Jewish race.” … Continue reading →

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Hunger Art (Chaim Soutine)

Posted on August 22, 2018 by zjb

“Still Life with Herring” sounds like a Jewish spoof on the French fine art tradition. From the same milieu of Russian Jews in Paris, Chaim Soutine is the anti-Chagall. There is nothing dreamy about his work. There is no lift … Continue reading →

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This Amazing Asian Supermarket in Morningside Heights (H Mart)

Posted on June 27, 2018 by zjb

For gastronomes and Food and Foodway Studies people: Speechless, I wandered aisle after aisle, struck by the vastness of varieties and options –produce, meat and fish, noodles, kimchi, mushrooms, desserts and snacks, and also cookware and kitchenware. When I have … Continue reading →

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