South Florida is a crazy patchwork of little cities, towns, and villages, each boasting tropical flavor and colorful history. However, only one bears an official title City Beautiful, the City of Coral Gables. One of the seven cities in the United States influenced by the City Beautiful North American architectural movement which promoted “beautification and…
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The Real Treasure of the Caribbean: Haiti, Part 1. Baked Fish.
I love my Haitian students. Make no mistake – I love all my students, and I reveal in having “the United Nations” environment in my classroom. However, students who come from this tiny, much-suffered, but proud little country have a special place in my heart. No matter the topic of conversation, if there is even…
My Grandmother’s Recipes: Part 4, Gefilte Fish.
Which teenage love story has become proverbial, portrayed on stage and on the movie screen, rendered into an opera and a ballet? Romeo and Juliet, you say? You’ve seen too much of Leonardo di Caprio, Beautiful People! Those kids have got nothing on my grandparents, whose love story that lasted for 60 years starts in…
Classics Also Quarrel: Russian Pot Pie
The rich also cry, as we all know. It is less known, however, that the classics also quarrel. We tend to perceive them as larger than life, rather not susceptible to flaws and frailties of us, ordinary humans. Take, for example, Leo Tolstoy, “the greatest apostle of non-violence that the present age has produced” (Mahatma…
Preserving Jews and All Sorts of Fish: Escabeche
An innovative and highly profitable method of borrowing money was practiced by King Edward I of England: you borrow from the Jews, as there is no one else to borrow from (usury was forbidden by the church), then, since legally all Jews are the King’s property, all debts payable to them instantly become payable to…
Magical Birds Lay Fish Eggs
Once upon the time there lived a magical bird called Phoenix, AKA the Firebird. If you believe the legends, it is still alive and hanging around somewhere because it self-immolates every 500 years and then rises from the ashes. A Phoenix named Fawkes, nurtured after every immolation by Professor Dumbledore (we do get the joke,…
Fish and Cream, and Veggies Too
Dear Beautiful People, my granddaughter Alisia has just been accepted to Barnard, an independent women’s college, which is also one of the Seven Sisters schools and a part of Columbia University, an Ivy League school. To celebrate, she broke her College Fund piggy bank where she found all of $50 – about enough to buy…
Gefilte Fish Heads the Year
Coming up on our holiday table, following the appetizers, is the most famous of all traditional Jewish dishes, Gefilte Fish. How do you recognize a Jewish fish? It swims with a carrot in its mouth. I think this joke is older than the gefilte fish itself. In truth, even though eating fish on Erev Shabbos (Friday night)…
The Truth About Sushi
via The Truth About Sushi To this fascinating post and some resources for great sushi recipes, I am adding my own humble contribution to the great art of sushi making: https://koolkosherkitchen.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/making-sushi/ Enjoy, Beautiful People!
To Honor My Students
I interrupt last minute Shavuos preparations to honor my students on their holiday. Many of my students this semester are from Haiti, and today they celebrate Flag Day. To find out more about this holiday, go to this article and come back for some delicious Haitian recipes, contributed by my students. Baked Fish Fried Accra…
Say CHEESE for Shavuos!
Contrary to all other Jewish holidays, when we prepare festive meals that include both fish and meat, signifying rejoicing in His benevolence that grants us abundance, traditional Shavuos table is laden with dairy dishes, from blintzes to cheesecakes, and anything milky delicious you can think of. One of the reasons for this unique menu is…
Finnan Haddie – a Moment in History
A beautiful poem by Ellen Winter came to me via amazingly creative blogger Judy of the awesome lifelessons. Go visit her blog, Beautiful People, and be impressed, amused, and delighted with her whimsical poetry and art! Meet the adorable couple, Ellen and her boyfriend Fred: Enjoy Ellen’s poem that actually contains the recipe for a…
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