A Walk on the Jewish Side

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    🕮    Jewish identity can be complicated, especially for people who come from a mixed background. We are starting to see this reality acknowledged in middle grade and young adult fiction, with characters who are working to figure out what being Jewish means to them, or who are trying to better integrate the different parts of their heritage; characters who don't feel like they are enough. For this episode, I've called together three authors whose novels explore this topic: Primrose Madayag Knazan, author of the YA novel Lesson in Fusion, and middle grade authors Aimee Lucido, who wrote Recipe for Disaster, and Amanda Panitch, who wrote The Two Wrong Halves of Ruby Taylor. Join us for a virtual panel discussion about identity, a walk on the Jewish side. 

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RECIPES DISCUSSED:

  • French onion babka ("I use the dough from this recipe but add a bunch of gruyere/Parmesan/fontina cheese to the filling, along with usually some leeks or garlic if I have them, and skip the poppy seed topping")
  • Brisket Caldereta - see page 240 of Lessons in Fusion
  • Sufganiyot with cream filling
  • Flourless chocolate cake ("We skip the orange caramel sauce and do whipped cream instead")
  • Matzah brei with avocado, mango, and condensed milk - see page 200-204 of Lessons in Fusion
  • Sweet potato latkes with yogurt, green apples, cucumber raita - see page 23 of Lessons in Fusion
  • Parsnip latkes with cranberry sauce ("I skip the horseradish/dill sauce and make a cranberry sauce instead, no real recipe for that, just boiling down a bag of cranberries with sugar/citrus zest to taste")

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