Jewish food for me was Arabic food. The food that we would have on religious holidays like on Roshashana, all this stuff was like a stuffed grape leaf, or stuffed peppers, and it was a Middle Eastern way of cooking, although Eastern Europeans do stuffed peppers also. Dishes like marakh, which is like a [...]
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April 16, 2007
Cracking the code
My mother was very aware as a kid that her mother was ill. My grandmother was sick her whole life. She knew that her mother was not well, and she knew that if she wanted to understand what was happening she’s have to crack the code, because every time something was wrong, my [...]
