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Beans with a history
Sweet, bacon-y baked beans. Would you believe they started with Jews? Well, they did. Connecting such seemingly disparate things as Judaism and pork-infused legumes usually takes a story. I recently...
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Zen and the art of weed whacking
(Cross-posted from The Jew and the Carrot) Caught in a rainstorm in Guatemala, with only chafing rain boots to tackle the wet, muddy miles ahead, Joe Gorin is about to give in to misery. Then he...
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Image for the Day: Indulge yourself, it’s Lag Ba’Omer
Lag Ba’Omer falls on the thirty-third day of counting the omer, a Jewish tradition that marks the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot. Usually a solemn period, on Day 33, the rabbis say we can...
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Image for the Day: Dude ascending a staircase
Last year, I helped to plan a Shavuot event in this ravishing church. Shavuot, the Jewish holiday commemorating receiving the Torah, is coming up again at the end of May. I decided to use this shot of...
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New food writing: Challah
My Jewish Learning recently published my article/recipe “Taking Challah: A mitzvah that sets the braided bread apart.” Check it out. For more on that topic, be sure to read the charming “Ask the...
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Science and religion
Photo by Flickr user kkfea Every Yom Kippur, I take my attention away from my growling stomach and the repentant prayers for a moment to think I should write about this. I never do. Luckily, Gabe...
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Eating in Part II, in which our heroine faces an ancient scholar and fish...
My second post on my 31 days of eating in is up at The Jew and the Carrot. Check it out.
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Latke-Hamentasch Debate coming up
Four speakers. Two Jewish foods. One magical night. D.C.-area Jews, foodies, and lovers of hilarious arguments, this one’s for you. Experience the Latke-Hamentasch Debate and nosh on “research...
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How I survived eating in for an entire month
A sign at a D.C. Metro station tells me what to do. By Rhea. …that’s the title of my final post in a series at The Jew and the Carrot. It sounds dramatic, but to be honest I wasn’t crawling to the...
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Sprout your own karpas
The Jewish sustainability organization Hazon put out a great post earlier this month. It’s called 10 Ways to Make Your Passover More Sustainable. I think my favorite is the idea of sprouting your own...
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Sepharaeli Charoset
Photo by Flickr user Yucca2k6, used under Creative Common license. For a Passover seder last week, I was charged with bringing the charoset. I decided to make a batch in the Sephardi style with Israeli...
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Pollan’s epiphany, community, and seedling swaps
Last month, Michael Pollan released his seventh food book, Cooked, and I wrote about it for The Jewish Daily Forward. The book is based on the epiphany that many of his tortured foodie questions had...
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Not coming to a trash can near you
Photo by Flickr user Diana House What happens to the scraps from 25,000 pounds of meat at Katz’s Deli each week? Here’s a hint: It’s the same thing that’s about to happen to all New Yorkers’ vegetable...
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Ferguson and shining a light
A woman stands in Judiciary Square at the endpoint of the Justice for All March in Washington, DC. Police-involved shooting. That’s the term I see often now. It attempts an objective tone, a tone I...
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Top 10 places to give and make change
Participants in the Jews and Muslims DC event prepare to leave the DC Jewish Community Center with food and gifts for homeless people on Christmas Day. Photo by Rhea. I started off Christmas Day by...
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Publication: Oils for Hanukkah
Tablet Magazine just published my piece on cooking oils for Hanukkah. Check it out: Think Before You Fry
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Loaves and enchiladas
Challah made by experienced and novice conference participants, December 2015. Photo by Rhea. Last Friday, I joined a crowd of around 500 for MLK Shabbat at Sixth and I Synagogue. The service brought...
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Winter growth at the Leichtag Foundation
A pomegranate lasts into January in Leichtag’s food forest In January, I grabbed the chance to visit the Leichtag Foundation — and, as it turned out, munch the most delectable fruit I’ve had all year....
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Workshop report: A Jewish Communal Response to #MeToo
A slide from Jewish Women International introduces the program at the July workshop. Last week, I attended a workshop called A Jewish Communal Response to #MeToo. I came in my role as vice chair of the...
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