Hey... my Yiddish speaking grandmother trained my ears. Listen to how people mangle: Kreplach, Latkes, Kugel, Kishke, Gefilte Fish, Knaidle, Blintzes and Challah.

My mother-in-laws must have was creamed cauliflower, which I dearly loved. She also made an extremely decadant potato kugel, literally swimming in bacon fat. It was addicting yet took away from the rest of the meal it was so...

First of all, let’s get this straight: I love Los Angeles, and Los Angeles food. Right? I’m rather violently disagree with, say, the people that come round from New York and complain that nothing comes even close. I...

... but if there was no Pumpkin Pie a la Julie (circa 1959) or Potato Kugel a la Fanny (circa 1957) or Garlic Green Bean Salad a la Allan (a newbie circa 1975)... I would still call it a successful joyous Thanksgiving. Maybe...

Oatmeal, I make mine 1/2 water and 1/2 milk and top w/ brown sugar and dried cherries or cranberries Stuffed cabbage & stuffed peppers – have never had this taste like my Hungarian grandma’s recipe, which is only one I...

. This was nothing like her mother used to make, Swanson’s or Marie Callendar or some kind of crap. She converted to Judaism and loved stuffed cabbage, stuffed peppers, challah, matzo ball soup, brisket, corned beef, noodle...

complement the dinner well. Desserts: Uh, nothing succeeds like excess. 1 cake, 1 kugel, 1 cheesecake, 7 pies, + cookies for 16 people. Tres Leches Cake and Banana Cream Pie were the standouts. I guess breakfast is set, afterall....

to eat was a plate of lemon rice from the gamekeeper’s shack in an indian wildlife park that I noticed an ant crawling around in. btw, I just got around to reading your kugel story in the traveler’s tales...

beef to die for, kugel, potato pancakes, sponge cake, rugelach, bow tie cookies and seven layer cake from the bakery, and of course chicken soup. Sundays we’d often get deli to take home, and, like one of Philip...