Jewish American Heritage Month

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The observance of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. was established byPublic Law 98-144. This national day of service is celebrated on the third Monday in January. The theme for this event does not change each year.

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The observance of African American / Black History Month was established byPublic Law 99-244. This observance runs through the month of February and celebrates the contributions of African Americans to our nation. The theme for this event changes each year.

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The U.S. Congress established Days of Remembrance as the nation's annual commemoration of the Holocaust.

Public Law 96-388established the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and authorizes the actions of the council. Each year the President of the United States also issues aPresidential Proclamationfor the observance.

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The observance recognizing Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month was established byTitle 36, U.S. Code, Section 102. This observance runs through the month of May and celebrates the service and sacrifices of Asian/Pacific Islanders throughout the United States. The theme for this event changes each year.

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Saveliy Kaplinsky had an annual tradition.

For 15 years, almost every spring, hed return to Minsk, where he had survived the Holocaust, then had worked to rebuild his community. During his return visits, he would honor those killed, among them, his parents, and visit the Yama memorial.

Every year, Jews of Minsk get together at Yama to commemorate the memory, Mr. Kaplinsky, 92, said through an interpreter. I fly to Minsk to participate in the somber events.

His memories of the Holocaust are indelibly etched, but because of his age, Mr. Kaplinsky ended his pilgrimages to Belarus in 2013.

I personally come to take part in these events and talk about what we are, as Jews in America, doing to keep the memory of Holocaust victims alive, he said.

Mr. Kaplinsky now works in his Brooklyn community to memorialize those who lost their lives.

So many years passed, Mr. Kaplinsky said, I cannot forget this horror.

Mr. Kaplinsky was born in Minsk in 1929. After the Nazis invaded, he and his family were forced to live in a Jewish ghetto, where mass killings claimed the life of his father in 1941, then his mother, his grandfather and his sister the next year.

After his mother was killed, Mr. Kaplinsky said, he began doing what he could to fight against the Nazis. When he was brought to work in a German barrack, he said, he began stealing ammunition and grenades, smuggling them in a food container to others in the ghetto, who then smuggled them to agents in the resistance. I was doing it all the time, Mr. Kaplinsky said.

Mr. Kaplinsky knew that if he was caught, his life and those of others, even those not involved, would be in danger. Despite all of this, I was doing it, he said.

In 1943, Mr. Kaplinsky and a group of other people cut the wire of the ghetto and escaped. They joined a resistance unit camped in the surrounding woods, where Mr. Kaplinsky was often tasked with keeping watch.

After the war, Mr. Kaplinsky returned to Minsk, where he learned that his two older brothers who had served in the Soviet army were his only family members to survive the Holocaust.

Where to go? Who is waiting for you? Mr. Kaplinsky remembers asking himself upon his return. These were the toughest days, hours, of my life.

Over the next 50 years, Mr. Kaplinsky worked to help rebuild Minsk. He went to school at night and studied engineering, and eventually rose to be the chief engineer at a building firm.

After coming to New York with his wife in 1993 to be closer to their son and granddaughters, he became a member of the Association of Holocaust Survivors From the Former Soviet Union, and in 1995 was elected as its president. During this time, Mr. Kaplinsky also became a member of the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst.

Through the group, Mr. Kaplinsky, who lives with his wife in subsidized housing and relies on Supplemental Security Income and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, received help when he needed four dental crowns last fall. The J.C.H. is a beneficiary agency of UJA-Federation of New York, one of the nine organizations supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, and it provided $550 from The Fund for the procedure. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, an organization that assists Holocaust survivors, contributed the remaining $1,450.

Mr. Kaplinsky said after almost three decades of working with the J.C.H., he was grateful for its help. I am very pleased that I came, he said. The Russian department of this Jewish House is very, very helpful.

Now that his dental procedure has been completed, Mr. Kaplinsky is glad he can devote his energy to organizing a spring memorial service, possibly virtually, for the Jews killed in the Minsk ghetto, and to telling his story.

Every year after I moved to America, I went to Minsk and always participated at Yama, shared what we were here, in a far-away-from-them America, how we were keeping the memory of Holocaust alive, he said.

The knowledge that older adults like Mr. Kaplinsky may be facing financial barriers to health care is one of the reasons that Bethene Trexel began volunteering with the Advocacy, Counseling and Entitlement Services program of Community Service Society. The group is also supported by The Neediest Cases Fund.

For retirees on a fixed income, medical expenses can be a significant drain. As a volunteer, Ms. Trexel, 74, who is retired and previously worked for a nonprofit, helps people navigate the public benefits system, and has developed an expertise in helping older adults register for Medicare.

I think everybody deserves good help, Ms. Trexel said.

Over her years of volunteering, one of her biggest achievements was creating an in-depth chart in 2005 to help clients navigate Part D of Medicare, which went into effect the next year and covers prescription drugs. The chart was so beneficial to Ms. Trexel and her fellow volunteers that she began updating it multiple times a year.

Current versions are accessible online, in a collection of resources compiled by the citys Department for the Agings Health Insurance Information, Counseling, and Assistance Program, for everyone to access.

While counseling her clients, Ms. Trexel said, she is often able to save them hundreds of dollars a year, which can be a boon to people on fixed incomes.

It can change peoples lives. They can have enough to pay their rent and have something to eat, she said. That can make an incredible difference in someones life.

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If youve read enough about anti-Jewish bigotry, youve probably noticed that no one can agree how to spell it: Is it anti-Semitism or antisemitism? Regular readers of The Atlantic know that this publication uses the hyphenated version. But before I came here, I wrote for a Jewish outlet that removed the hyphen. And just this past week, The New York Times acknowledged that it had quietly revised its style guide to do the same. So does the spelling really matter? Having covered anti-Jewish prejudice for a decade, Im not convinced that it does.

To be sure, the term anti-Semitism is certainly problematic in a variety of ways. To begin with, the word was popularized by an anti-Jewish bigot named Wilhelm Marr. In 1879, Marr, a German nationalist, founded the League of Antisemites, which sounds like what youd get if you handed the Marvel Cinematic Universe over to Mel Gibson. Marr wanted to make his anti-Jewish prejudice sound more respectable and used anti-Semitism to suggest that JewsSemitesbelonged to an inferior race.

The problem is not just that this word for anti-Jewish prejudice was popularized by a perpetrator rather than the victims, but that it easily lends itself to pedantic objections. Some critics claim that Jews are not real Semites and so anti-Semitism doesnt refer to them. In the Arab world, conversely, others claim that they cant be anti-Semitic, because Arabs are also Semites. This is not just a Middle Eastern canard. In 2015, the former U.S. presidential candidate Ralph Nader declared that the Semitic race is Arabs and Jews and the Jews do not own the phrase anti-Semitism, adding that the worst anti-Semitism in the world today is against Arabs and Arab-Americans.

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All of this is ahistorical nonsense. The term anti-Semitism was chosen by an anti-Jewish bigot to lend a sophisticated sheen to his hatred of Jews. The term has never popularly referred to Arabs or other Semites, which is why the Dictionary.com definition of anti-Semitism reads: discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews. Anyone suggesting otherwise is at best ignorant, or at worst attempting to undermine discussions of anti-Jewish prejudice.

To counter such bad-faith objections, some scholars have advocated for removing the hyphen from anti-Semitism. By collapsing the term into a single word and removing the separate, oft-abused reference to Semitism, they hope to head off the semantic games before they start. Back in April, this movement scored a major victory when the Associated Press revised its influential journalism style guide accordingly. And this past August, The New York Times followed suit.

This seems like a story of good people getting good results. So why am I raining on this rhetorical parade? Because I worry that such symbolic steps are actually a distraction from the more difficult task of combatting anti-Semitism. As much as we might wish otherwise, changing how we spell anti-Semitism is not actually going to reduce anti-Semitism, and so its not worth the level of attention it typically receives.

Ive spent a decade covering anti-Semitism and have seen firsthand that the version of the word I use has not altered the bad-faith responses I receive. Upon reflection, the reason for this is pretty simple: The problem isnt the hyphen in anti-Semitism. The problem is that anti-Semites hate Jews and any attempt to discuss discrimination against them. The hyphen is the excuse, not the cause. Take it away, and the trolls will continue to make the same claims, because their real aim is simply to dissimulate and divert.

Some critics of the word Islamophobia have employed similar linguistic gymnastics, contending that their prejudice is not a phobia, because its not irrational, or that their objections are to particular Muslims and not to Islam. But Islamophobia, like anti-Semitism, is simply the word adopted by the targeted community to describe its experience of discrimination. Thats reason enough for any decent person who is serious about fighting prejudice to use it. Those who mumble about how Jews arent the only Semites, like those who insist their Islamophobia is not a phobia, are simply playing semantic games to avoid confronting obvious prejudice.

Sadly, changing the word is not going to change these peoples minds.

The best way to counter these individuals is not to call out allies who happen to spell anti-Semitism differently but to educate audiences about what the term really means, and to teach them to rebuff the disingenuous responses it generates. In my own work, I do this by using anti-Semitism, anti-Jewish prejudice, and anti-Jewish bigotry interchangeably throughout my articleslike this one!implicitly informing my readers that these terms mean the same thing. As the premier news organization on the planet, the Times might publicly commit to covering anti-Semitism around the world, or hire a reporter with that dedicated task. The paper might also renew its contract with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the global Jewish news agency that it dropped in 1937 over fears that its coverage of the Nazi regime was overly biased.

Walter Reich: Seventy-five years after Auschwitz, anti-Semitism is on the rise

Users of social media love fights over style rather than substance, and language is far easier to police than actions, so its understandable that those looking for a win against a seemingly intractable prejudice such as anti-Semitism would gravitate toward this issue. But the time and energy spent on this subject would be much better spent on combatting anti-Semites and educating allies.

Thats a lot harder than changing a words spelling, but then, real change usually is.

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Dutch far-right politician Thierry Baudet was found guilty Wednesday of creating a breeding ground for anti-Semitism, a court ruled, over several social media posts in which he compared the governments coronavirus measures to the Holocaust.

The comparison is flawed and you have spoken unnecessarily offensively and unlawfully of survivors of the Holocaust, the court ruled.

Baudet, founder and leader of the far-right Forum for Democracy (FvD), was ordered to delete four social media posts within 48 hours or be fined 25,000 per day that they remain online. He was also banned from reposting any images linking the Holocaust and the coronavirus.

In a series of social media posts in November, Baudet compared those who are unvaccinated to victims of the Holocaust because of the Dutch governments COVID-19 restrictions, which limit access to certain places for the unvaccinated.

Two Jewish interest groups and four individuals filed a lawsuit against Baudet for what they described as downplaying of the Holocaust.

Baudets lawyer said the politicians posts were in no way intended to hurt people, sow hatred or insult people and instead described them as expression of a politician in a public debate about the curtailment of the freedoms of the unvaccinated.

After the verdict, Baudet said he would appeal the decision.

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Anti-Semitic graffiti was found Wednesday at Danvers High School, just one day after district officials announced the wrestling team had been suspended while they investigated a fight over racist language and a team group chat where there were references to hazing and hateful and biased language.

Principal Adam Federico said in an email to students and families that he was "deeply saddened and frustrated" to share that the administration and police are investigating an incident in which a swastika symbol was drawn in a third floor bathroom stall. Federico said he was proud of the student who reported the grafitti to a staff member Wednesday afternoon.

The principal said they do not know who did this, or why, but that it won't be tolerated.

"We condemn this hate crime and want to be clear that this type of hateful and discriminatory behavior has no place at Danvers High School," Federico said.

The Danvers Public Schools district sent a message to families Tuesday afternoon to inform them the wrestling team had been suspended and to reveal that a full investigation is underway

This isn't the first anti-Semitic incident in Danvers.

The principal said school officials will be meeting with students throughout the next few days to engage in work around biased and hateful language, dangers of social media and the importance of reporting concerning information.

Additional support will be made available to students this week on an as needed basis, the principal said.

The Danvers Public Schools superintendent also addressed the latest incident at the high school in her weekly newsletter, writing that "it has been another challenging week in Danvers as DHS investigates alleged incidents with the wrestling team...and an incident involving antisemitic graffiti."

Lisa Dana condemned the hate incidents and said that type of hateful and discriminatory behavior has no place at the high school or in the community.

She said these incidents come directly after district officials presented a comprehensive action plan to the school committee regarding what the district is doing to improve culture.

The plan will be presented again at the human rights and inclusion committee meeting at 7 p.m. at town hall.

"We are asking for your support," Dana wrote. "As parents, caregivers, and community members, please have the difficult conversations with your children about these issues."

Residents of Danvers assembled Saturday evening for a vigil of inclusion following a second anti-Semitic incident at a school in town this month occurred earlier in the week.

The superintendent said as Federico mentioned, it is important for families to review their use of social media and cell phones and to reinforce that racist, biased, or inappropriate language is unacceptable.

She also shared that there will be a lecture series for parents via Zoom on Thursday, Dec. 16, on "Kids and the impact of toxic stress: How the pandemic, systemic racism, societal inequalities, technology, and other stressors of our current world can impact our children in toxic and traumatic ways and how we can help."

The virtual presentation is free and open to all. Registration is required no later than 10 a.m. Thursday.

Announced one day earlier, the wrestling team investigation came on the heels of hazing allegations against the high school hockey team, in which a student athlete came forward to detail violent, sexual, homophobic and racist hazing rituals in the locker room.

There were calls for Danvers community leaders to resign after the allegations surfaced in November regarding the hockey team, specifically over the alleged attempt to cover up the alleged bigoted locker room behavior by the 2019-2020 boys varsity high school hockey team.

During a contentious Danvers School Committee meeting last month, community members questioned why nothing had been done since the hockey player first reported being abused about a year and a half ago.

The superintendent responded to that case in a meeting Monday night, saying, "The issues of racism, homophobia and anti-Semitism are not issues I or the district can solve on our own. These are problems facing our entire nation and while we may not be able to change the country, I believe that Danvers is a community that can come together and work together to make a difference.

Calls for Danvers community leaders to resign are growing louder over an alleged attempt to cover up bigoted locker room behavior by the 2019-2020 boys varsity high school hockey team.

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King of Morocco Mohammed VI recently introduced an initiative to renovate Jewish heritage sites in the country, Israel Hayom reported yesterday.

The initiative includes the renovation of hundreds of synagogues, cemeteries and Jewish heritage sites in several cities across the kingdom.

According to the Israeli newspaper, the Jewish cemetery in the city of Fes, which includes 13,000 graves, is included in the initiative.

Meanwhile, the king has decided to reinstate the original names of some of the country's Jewish neighbourhoods.

This move, Israel Hayom reported, is part of the recent rapprochement between the Arab country and the Israeli occupation state which came as part of the US-sponsored Abraham Accords. In December 2020, Morocco resumed diplomatic relations with Israel in return for American recognition of its sovereignty over the Western Sahara.

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz visited Morocco last month and met with his counterpart Abdellatif Loudiyi.

They signed a memorandum of understanding formalising defence ties and allowing for smoother cooperation between their defence establishments.

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As the children of machers in the world of macrobiotic food, Jesse and Joshua Jacobs remember some exceptions made to their healthy, mostly vegetarian diet as they were growing up. Jewish holidays were among those occasions.

Jewish food definitely permeated our childhood, said Josh. Added Jesse: Even though what brought our parents together was their interest in macrobiotics, they couldnt ignore their heritage, as long as it wasnt red meat and was made from wholesome ingredients. The why on this night do we eat differently really resonated with our parents that way.

Given that background, it might be surprising to hear that the brothers have just introduced a new pizza brand to San Francisco: Joyride Pizza. (Unrelated perhaps, but growing up they ate tofu cheese pizza, and Jesse said he would spend his spare money on pizza bagels.)

The Jacobs brothers and their three siblings (one of whom, Daria Jacobs-Velde, until recently served the Bay Area as a rabbi) grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, a heavily Jewish Boston suburb, which also happens to be the center of the macrobiotic movement in America. Their parents, Barbara and Leonard Jacobs, moved there from the Midwest to be part of it; he served as publisher of the movements books, and she taught thousands of people how to cook with whole foods. Together, they wrote Cooking with Seitan: The Complete Vegetarian Wheat-Meat Cookbook.

The family grew much of their own food, too.

Our parents were like many people looking for radical change in the 60s and 70s, and made their way through a lot of the hippie movements and all they had to offer, said Jesse. Of all the communes and cults, this one had a noble cause, which was eating in balance with your environment.

Joyride is the latest to join the Detroit-style square pizza craze (weve written about the Jewish owners of Square Pie Guys in this space as well) in which cheese is baked into the crust, with the sides of a hot metal pan left to do its thing and has opened in Yerba Buena Gardens and the Mission District.

Everyone loves pizza just as much as us, but we knew we had to do it differently than everyone else.

Before the pandemic, both locations housed their popular tea spot Samovar. In a now familiar story but no less painful to live through they had to close up shop after 20 years in business, after coming off one of their most successful years in 2019.

Like so many at home during the pandemic, Jesse kept busy with kitchen projects like making sourdough and pickles. But knowing that pandemics dont last forever, he thought about next steps and landed on pizza, something that has brought joy to him and his family.

Everyone loves pizza just as much as us, but we knew we had to do it differently than everyone else, he said.

While the Jacobs brothers had both worked in Italian restaurants in their youth, they knew little about making good pizza. They brought on board a master pizza maker, Alastair Hannmann. While some ingredients, such as Wisconsin Brick cheese, are required for true Detroit-style pizza, everything else, from the grains to the toppings, are local and organic, with most of the produce coming from Sonoma County farmers. The dough goes through a three-day fermentation process.

Were elevating something so basic, said Jesse.

Jesse opened Samovar in 2002 when he lived in San Francisco (he now lives in Sebastopol) at a time when no one was thinking about tea in quite the same way as designer coffee and cocktails. He had lived in Japan and had become a student of the Japanese tea ceremony. Tea was also the social lubrication for the macrobiotic movement, he said.

After working in software, Jesse realized he wanted to make more of an impact, and settled on tea as a way to help farmers and to promote mindfulness. (Samovar was known for offering a free cup of tea to people who came and sat quietly, with their devices turned off.)

Josh, who lives in Maine, joined the business around 10 years ago and has always worked remotely.

One thing that excited me was to look at tea as a Trojan Horse for having a more meaningful life, he said. It starts out just being a functional drink, as it focuses the mind, or gives you energy, or helps if you have a cold. But its very culture is tied in with mindfulness.

Both brothers have regular meditation practices and say that they liked the idea that wed create a space for people to be more grounded and sane in the world, said Josh.

Before the pandemic, they were working on expanding Samovar beyond San Francisco to Los Angeles, New York and more.

No longer. They have mourned the demise of the 20-year storefront business and have moved on. Samovar still exists, but only online its e-commerce site had reached plenty of tea consumers before the pandemic, so it continues to do good business today.

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Learn about Gullah Geechee staples, incredible festivals around the world and the future of food in our top picks of the year. Illustration by Valerie Ruland-Schwartz

In this year of constant flux, food has been a wonderful comfort. The ability to come together once again with our extended friends and families, and share a meal across the table, is something weve undoubtedly been missing. Its also a wonderful reminder of how food helps to ease tensions and unite us. Our 10 top books about food of 2021a range of debut author cookbooks, explorations into cultural and culinary heritage, memoirs, and morereflect this reunion of sorts. From the dishes of Central and West African descendants to a romp through some of the planets oddist culinary festivals and most unusual eats, get ready to dig in.

James Bitsoie is the former executive chef at Mitsitam Native Foods Caf at the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian, as well as a member of the Navajo Nation. In his debut cookbook, Bitsoiealong with James Beard Awardwinning author James O. Fraiolipresents a wide sampling of the flavors and culinary history of the nearly 600 American Indian tribes in the U.S., with 100 contemporary interpretations of Indigenous recipes such as cherrystone clam soup and rabbit stew with corn dumplings. Bitsoie details each recipes distinct tribal heritage, and even includes a glossary of hyperlocal foods found on Native lands: things like acorn meal, agave nectar and cedar berries. The book also points readers toward the Indigenous vendors who sell them. As a Navajo, writes Bitsoie, it is imperative that I respect the myriad ingredients cultivated by Indigenous stewards of the land, air, and water in what we now call the United States.

Ever wondered what its like to sip beer crafted from the fog of Chiles Atacama Desert, or how to attend Panama's illustrious Festival of the Cheese Curl? Then this is the book for you. An ambitious, exciting, and zany anthology of heritage foodways, writes Dan Barber, chef and author of The Third Plate, and he couldnt be more spot-on. In fact, in this 448-page compilation, Atlas Obscura co-founder Dylan Thuras and co-author (and AO contributor) Cecily Wong pull together some of the most unique, interesting and incredible festivals, food and drink, and culinary obscurities from around the globe, transporting the reader into parts unknownboth edible and otherwise.

The book includes more than 500 entries, including photos, illustrations and adaptations of stories first published as part of its online magazine (including my own), along with tips on how to partake in everything from a seven-course pudding extravaganza in England to dining in a refurbished passenger jet just outside Ghanas Kotoka International Airport.

Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders.

Author Liza Gershman is known for her eye-catching cookbooks, and County Fair is no exception. With a focus on recipes that have been awarded the Blue Ribbon, an award of excellence often given out at small town, county and state fairs, Gershman gathers dishes from all 50 states, as well as ample 4H and FFA livestock events. Close to 80 recipes in total highlight the types of foods that fill your stomach and make your heart light with nostalgia. We're talking items like orange lemon citrus bread, a Wisconsin State Fair winner, and triple chocolate rebel cookies, a recipe that won the Best of Show prize at the Illinois Sangamon County Fair. I suppose I'm a bit old-fashioned, writes Gershman, a Generation Xer, in the books intro, one foot always in the time before tech and one foot embracing the modern day. Through full-page color photos, a chapter on pantry stocking and even a brief history on fairs in the U.S., County Fair evokes a sense of small town Americana that we at Smithsonian are thoroughly smitten with, as evident by our annual round-up of Best Small Towns to Visit.

In late 2014, business partners Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano opened a restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, inside what had once been a once segregated Greyhound bus station. The Grey, as its called, quickly became one of the best new spots in the country, procuring accolades from the likes of Food & Wine, The New York Times and Esquire.

Part duel memoir, part cookbook and part history of both the restaurant and the larger issue of race relations in the South, Black, White, and the Grey tells a story of food, friendship, and healing. Bailey is a Black chef, Morisano a white entrepreneur, and what began as a working partnership between two people who didnt really know each other morphed into a deep bond of acceptance and understanding. [Black, White, and the Grey] is one of the best and most honest books about business, partnership, race, class, culture, and gender I've encountered, writes Hunter Lewis, Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine.

A recipe (many of which are Southern-style) from Bailey that is reminiscent of their friendship, compiled with easy-to-find ingredients, ends each chapter.

It is common for many Black Americans to be cut off from their personal historya potent device of the Atlantic slave trade, writes The Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Tiffani Rozier. This lack of history and ancestral connection has always triggered a quiet note of shame and frustration for me, but its also why a new book celebrating Gullah Geechee culture resonates so strongly. Written by chef, farmer and James Beard Award semifinalist Matthew Raiford, together with Amy Paige Condon, Bress 'n' Nyam (a phrase that means bless and eat in Gullah, an English-based Creole language) honors the food of Raifords ancestral people, the Gullah Geechee, descendants of Central and West Africa who reside along the Atlantic coastal areas of the South.

In 2010, Raiford and his sister inherited the Georgia farm that his own great-great-great grandfathera freed slavepurchased in 1874. His book tells the story of his family history in the greater context of the Gullah Geechee through dozens of photos and more than 100 heirloom recipes. They include dishes like cowpea salad, gullah rice, and a Lowcountry boil made with crab, shrimp and sausage, all which incorporate Gullah staple foods such as Carolina Gold rice and Sea Island red peas still grown in the region.

In his debut book, food and culture writer Matt Siegel delves into the sometimes hard-earned history of how certain foods came to be, and waxes on topics such as the use of honey to preserve cadavers, and the belief that drinking animal milk actually makes you act like an animal. Penned in a tone thats both irreverent and humorous, The Secret History of Food explores food from every anglehistorical, cultural, scientific, sexual, and of course, culinaryand includes chapters centering on topics like corn, vanilla and A History of Swallowing (a personal favorite). The books exhaustive index, featuring everything from Scotchgard fabric protector to Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, shows that Siegel has undoubtedly done his research, and then some. Little of the information is appetizing, writes Kirkus Reviews about Siegels deep dive into foods clandestine past, but it is never dull.

Its typical to think of carne asada tacos and tamales stuffed with chicken or pork when considering Mexican cuisine, but Edgar Castrejn is determined to change that. The first-generation Mexican American, who grew up in Oakland, California, studied plant science and horticulture with a minor in nutrition, and his debut cookbook honors traditional meat-heavy classics from Latin America while transforming them into healthier, vegan versions. If no one told you it was vegan, you wouldn't even think twice! writes Amazon reviewer Jessyca Dewey.

Many of the recipes are family favorites that had been passed down orally, and which Castrejn has finally gotten down on paper, though with plant-based tweaks. Provecho features 100 recipes broken up into chapters such as Antojitos (Little Cravings) and La Mesa Llena (The Full Table), with dishes like ceviche de coliflor (a cauliflower ceviche) and no-bake enchiladas with jackfruit. Most ingredients are easy to find, and many of the books recipes can be prepared in a half-an-hour or less.

What began as a 2018 New Yorker essay by author Michelle Zaunerone about visiting the Korean supermarket H Mart following her mothers deathis now a full-length memoir of the same name. Zauner is the Korean-American singer and guitarist of indie rock band Japanese Breakfast, who grew up in Eugene, Oregon. When Zauner was 25, her mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She died later that same year. Written with honesty and humor, Zauners memoir is as much about a complex relationship between mother and daughter that ended way too soon, as it is about food and identity and how the two intertwine. The book includes many relatable moments and photos of both Zauner and her family. But its what happens after her mothers passing (which comes a little over midway through the book) thats truly revealing. In losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, writes NPR book reviewer Kristen Martin, Zauner became herself.

From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.

This is a rambunctiously uplifting book, vibrantly full of warmth, joy, and deliciousness, writes food personality Nigella Lawson about Jew-ish: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch. Indeed, author Jack Cohen knows how to engage an audience. The former food staffer at Saveur and restaurant critic for Time Out New York is a social media personality, with legions of TikTok and Instagram followers who cant get enough of his videos on baking garlic bread and challah braiding. In his first book, Cohen offers modern takes on traditional foods from his Jewish heritage that go well beyond matzo ball soup. The 272-page text is chock-full of updated recipes like roasted tomato brisket, sabich bagel sandwiches and matzo tiramisu, many of which incorporate ingredients inspired by his husbands Persian-Iraqi heritage. Jew-ish even includes tips on hosting a Shabbat dinner party. Its a great intro for those of us who didnt grow up eating Jewish foods, and offers reimagined takes for the many who did.

When you think of Jewish food, a few classics come to mind: chicken soup with matzo balls, challah, maybe a babka if youre feeling adventurous. But as food writer and nice Jewish boy Jake Cohen demonstrates in this stunning debut cookbook, Jewish food can be so much more.

Over the last several years, food products like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have taken over restaurant menus and are readily available in supermarkets. While the startups producing them intend to help address climate change and animal welfare, Technically Foods author Larissa Zimberoff believes the financing and investors necessary to bring these products into fruition is a double-edged sword. The current wave of food companies claims to be mission driven, writes Zimberoff. But they still want to make money.

In this investigative study, Zimberoff provides a comprehensive and accessible take on these complex subjects while examining the future of our food. She hits home the truth that plant-based doesnt mean minimally processed; in many cases, its far from it. Along with chapters on algae, fungi and pea protein, Zimberoff discusses everything from vertical farms to upcycled foods, and provides predictions from experts like entrepreneur (and plant-based investor) Mark Cuban and public health advocate Marion Nestle on the future of food. Technically Food also begs the question, What exactly are we eating?

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(Aah) is the hotel's fine-dining restaurant specialising in contemporary Kerala cuisine: think tempered snake gourd stuffed with curd rice and seasoned with dried curry leaf chutney powder and sliders of steamed rice cakes ensconcing pulled duck roast or banana blossom roast. The name nods to the first letter (and sound) in Malayalam, indicating perhaps, that in these parts too, everything begins and ends with food.

The roomsthree of which come with bathtubsare positioned as galleries, given the hotels art influence, put together by architect Tony Joseph and curated by Bose Krishnamachari. Art lovers will enjoy a stop at the hotels boutique store Panchaloham, which will have rare, heritage and antique jewellery that showcase Indian craftsmanship.

The Postcard Mandalay Hall is perfectly placed for visitors to the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and is geared to be an art destination in itself, as a community hub for artists, musicians and authors through the year. We see it develop into a cultural centre piece that will celebrate the history of the Mattancherry area and Jewish synagogue, says Chopra. The hotel is showing the first exhibition of artist Raju Baraiya, named emerging artist of the year by Glenfiddich, until 12 January 2022.

The Postcard Mandalay Hall VI/193, Synagogue Ln, Jew Town, Kappalandimukku, Mattancherry, Kochi, Kerala 682002. Website; doubles from Rs18,000-22,000.

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On the busy streets of the Italian Market, theres a cheery sandwich board that, for a certain type of person, works like a siren song. With coloring and typeface evocative of the classic cover of The Joy of Cooking, the sign invites passersby to Discover the joy of cookbooks. Accept the invitation and youll enter Mollys Books & Records, a multifaceted shop which also happens to be the best cookbook bookstore in Philadelphia.

A third-generation bookseller, owner Molly Russakoff operates her shop as a family business. Her husband Joe Ankenbrand is in charge of the records, and her son Johnny, in addition to collecting movies, is knowledgeable about the entire stock. (Shop cat, Mrs. Stevenson, is the muscle.) Russakoff, an accomplished poet, is responsible for the shops literature section, and she counts cookbooks in that category. She also painted that sandwich board, and when I told her how it drew me in, she threw her fists up in triumph and exclaimed, It worked!

Inspired by the culinary atmosphere of the stores location in the Italian Market, Russakoff decided to build up the gastronomic collection, devoting the entire back space of the shop to cookbooks and food writing. I dont speak Italian but I know the word for such a space: paradiso.

The cookbook selection is both comprehensive and full of surprises. If youre looking to build up a kitchen library, Mollys has everything you need but, given the tightness of the space, theres likely only one copy on the shelf at a time. On the other hand, if youre a treasure-hunter or a gift-giver, this is the place to go for everything from celebrity cookbooks, like Loretta Lynns Youre Cookin it Country, to kitschy-cute midcentury pamphlets. Of these, Russakoffs favorite is How Famous Chefs Cook with Marshmallows, published by the Campsite Marshmallow Company in 1930.

Because the entire stock is second-hand, theres no guarantee youll find the exact title youre looking for. And because the store has no online presence (other than a record-centric Instagram, @mollysbooksandrecords) youll have to go in and see for yourself. Asked where she sources her inventory, Russakoff paused, considering whether to share this trade secret. She divulged that the books mainly come from Friends of the Library sales but cautioned, I work very hard.

In developing the cookbook offerings, Russakoff prizes global diversity, seeking to explore different cuisines and represent them as authentically as I can. The store has shelves devoted to Pennsylvania Dutch, African American, Native American, Jewish, Scandinavian, Indian, and Middle Eastern cuisines, among others. At the same time, Russakoff acknowledges that in every genre, from cookbooks to kids lit, there are certain perennial favorites that people will always want. Classic stuff, she explains. Marcella. Mastering the Art. Her son pops out from the back room to add, Bourdain!

Whereas used bookstores typically have a charming haphazard quality, Mollys exudes thoughtfulness and care. The shop as a whole is quite small, the selection dense. The cookbook section can be almost overwhelming Russakoffs son says he loves the vastness of the cookbook section, the look of overflowing shelvesso shoppers need time to browse gingerly.

Russakoff is pescatarian and, in her own cooking, relies heavily on the classic vegetarian tome American Wholefoods Cuisine. Funnily enough, the vegetarian shelf abuts the meat and game section, like two judgmental strangers seated together at a dinner party. There are shelves for booze, home brewing and winemaking, tea, coffee, and herbs, a shelf garnished with some witchy titles. Food writing is here defined broadly: that section includes biographies and memoirs, essay collections by writers like MFK Fisher, and reference works. Harold McGees groundbreaking On Food and Cooking cowers beneath various imposing editions of Larousse Gastronomique. Books like these make excellent gifts for novices and advanced cooks alike.

Currently at Mollys theres a project to weed the cookbooks, clearing out items that have been sitting too long on the shelf in order to make space for interesting new additions. The first fruits of this labor will be a sidewalk sale lasting throughout the holiday season, with rows of high-quality cookbooks available at reduced prices. Its a great opportunity to try a new cuisine or pick up a book that might be more decorative than instructional. You may never make anything from The Czechoslovak Cookbook by Joza Biov, it will look cute on your shelf.

Even before the sale, the prices at Mollys are refreshingly fair. Deborah Madisons encyclopedic Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone went for $22: the soup chapter alone is worth that much. Of course, the staff is knowledgeable and passionate, and real treasures are priced accordingly. A numbered edition of the limited run From Julia Childs Kitchen, signed by both Child and her devoted husband, Paul? Priced at $1,200, that ones not going on the sidewalk any time soon.

Cookbook obsessives might revere such an object, a relic from Saint Julia, but Russakoff says she isnt tempted to keep it. Im not a collector, she explains. I love to find things, and then find them a home. Lucky for us, to the customer go the spoils.

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