Esther Amateau Pergament
August 22, 1914 – October 20, 2014 “Born on the Island of Rhodes the youngest of nine children, she immigrated to America in 1929. Educated, talented, and beautiful, she met her husband of 43 years in...
View ArticleOn dining every day, even over pizza.
To read so many recipe columns, you’d think Sephardic Jews eat nothing but lavish, exotic party food. Well, there is life between holidays and social visits, and it is no less enjoyable. Everyday...
View ArticleΑlmost Αunt Rachel’s Cake
Today a ramble about a great cook and some cakes. Of all the great cooks in my family, my grandfather’s sister Rachel (ra-SHEL) was the one who blew everyone else out of the water. Like a molecular...
View ArticleWhere’s the Beef? (All About Mina, and Some Medieval Haggadahs)
Last weekend I went to see the Medieval Haggadah exhibition that’s just opened at the Barcelona History Museum. For the first time since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, eight illuminated Haggadot...
View ArticlePurim Lanu, Pesah a la Manu! (Purim’s over; Pesah is around the corner)
When it’s cold, gray and pouring rain outdoors, it’s a treat to be indoors pouring over a cookbook full of warm inspiration from sunnier places. Lately I’ve been doing just that in a tiny rural town in...
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