Writer. Speaker. Mostly Soviet-Russian Jewish food, immigration, culture. Words in @globeandmail @tabletmag @heatedmag @jdforward @chatelaine @todaysparent
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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I started working on this in January. It feels like a missive from another planet right now. But… Purim is this week. For @tabletmag, in an homage to my Soviet grandmothers, I imagine how #JewishFood could have developed in the USSR.
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Thank you for highlighting "When Food Betrayed the Jews"! lilith.org/articles/when-foo…
March #SovietSamovar is out! Musings from me on ghostly objects in my basement, hamantaschen recipes + great reads from @ruthmadievsky @katyaapekina @shbarocas @LLuxner @AllanLevine12 @MaratGrinberg @Kveller @LilithMagazine @JTAnews
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Struggling to find records of your Jewish ancestors in Belarus? @TheTogetherPlan archivists are ready to help! Join us for a presentation by TTP’s Archive Services Caseworker Carl Kaplan (Boston) & Archive Services Coordinator Vasily Zaitsau (Minsk). bit.ly/3PfSTTC
March #SovietSamovar is out! Musings from me on ghostly objects in my basement, hamantaschen recipes + great reads from @ruthmadievsky @katyaapekina @shbarocas @LLuxner @AllanLevine12 @MaratGrinberg @Kveller @LilithMagazine @JTAnews
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More savoury hamantaschen - and an essay I wrote for @tabletmag a couple years ago, imagining the Jewish holidays foods that could have been. #JewishFood #Hamantaschen
I started working on this in January. It feels like a missive from another planet right now. But… Purim is this week. For @tabletmag, in an homage to my Soviet grandmothers, I imagine how #JewishFood could have developed in the USSR.
tabletmag.com/sections/holid…
And here's the recipe itself - Soviet Salmon Zakuski - with canned salmon and capers. A very Soviet-era homage. #hamantaschen #JewishFood
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It's hamantaschen week! If you're looking for something savoury, I've just posted a mushroom hamantaschen recipe that imagines how #hamantaschen might have developed if Soviet-Jews had been permitted religious freedom. #JewishFood #recipes #Purim leazeltserman.com/mushroom-s…
It's hamantaschen week! If you're looking for something savoury, I've just posted a mushroom hamantaschen recipe that imagines how #hamantaschen might have developed if Soviet-Jews had been permitted religious freedom. #JewishFood #recipes #Purim leazeltserman.com/mushroom-s…
Really excited for this @Pushkin_House talk on Russian food since 1800, which covers some of my fave interests - state control over food, Russian vs. Soviet cuisine & why Russians consider dishes like Uzbek plov "their" food. Today 14:30EST. #sovietfood pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/ev…
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Join me @latimesfob or, better yet, give me tips for my 1st time! I’ve heard legends about the green room… And of course, if you’re into historical fiction, come to Sunday talk with @melissachadburn @crystalhanak @nguyen_p_quemai & Myriam Chancy. #bookfest
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My picks for Women’s History Month @JewishBook are MOTHER DOLL by @katyaapekina and THE POSSIBILITIES by @ygoldlove jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-dai… – at San Francisco, CA
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Honored to be included! Thank you for Soviet Samovar @zeltserman !
SovietSamovar is back. I talk about cooking habits & nostalgia, why I stopped making soups & share a rassolnik (aka pickle soup) recipe. Plus, fab work from @VladaTeper @IamAlinaAdams @AnnaFridlis @PuncturedLines @sashavasilyuk @MashaDC @MaratGrinberg
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Thank you for the shout out!!!
SovietSamovar is back. I talk about cooking habits & nostalgia, why I stopped making soups & share a rassolnik (aka pickle soup) recipe. Plus, fab work from @VladaTeper @IamAlinaAdams @AnnaFridlis @PuncturedLines @sashavasilyuk @MashaDC @MaratGrinberg
buff.ly/3UPvmwo
SovietSamovar is back. I talk about cooking habits & nostalgia, why I stopped making soups & share a rassolnik (aka pickle soup) recipe. Plus, fab work from @VladaTeper @IamAlinaAdams @AnnaFridlis @PuncturedLines @sashavasilyuk @MashaDC @MaratGrinberg
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Bc I forgot the link in the newsletter, a review of @maratGrinberg new book The Soviet-Jewish Bookshelf, which I'm excited to read. As booknerd who obsesses on how food shaped Soviet-Jewish identity, I'm here for the book perspective on it. buff.ly/3uForvc
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Moved to be included! Thank you @IamAlinaAdams and thank you so much @zeltserman !
Yay! @zeltserman calls my YouTube series binge-worthy! Check it out at the link, along with some brilliant writing by @SashaVasilyuk, @MashaDC,@AnnaFridlis, @VladaTeper & all the post-#Soviet/#Jewish content you had no idea you needed! Plus, soup!
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Lea Zeltserman retweeted
Yay! @zeltserman calls my YouTube series binge-worthy! Check it out at the link, along with some brilliant writing by @SashaVasilyuk, @MashaDC,@AnnaFridlis, @VladaTeper & all the post-#Soviet/#Jewish content you had no idea you needed! Plus, soup!
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Because it's still winter and officially still soup season, I've posted a recipe on my site, from one of my cooking classes - Rassolnik - a Soviet-Russian pickle soup. Start saving your pickle juice, friends.
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"many Soviet Jews grew up eating ham, changing their names to Slavic ones, and putting up a New Year’s tree in December (it has nothing to do with Jesus!)"
Find out more in this wide-ranging conversation between @MashaDC and @zeltserman
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Humbled to share a small corner of the interwebs w/writer extraordinaire @MashaDC whose book on immigrant parenting was one of my top 2021 reads. And so grateful to @bowlga & @YelenaFurman for providing us & many others w/a space for these conversations. puncturedlines.wordpress.com…
Oh hai, haven't been here for a while, but it's almost #RoshHashanah & in my ongoing mission to explore how my Soviet grandmothers might have celebrated Jewish holidays had they been allowed, I've baked some apple-lingonberry #piroshki (traditional yeasted buns). #jewishfood
