✦ Published pieces
The Stew That Kept the Sabbath
One rule - no fire on Shabbat - and the same slow-cooked answer arrived independently in every country the tribe reached, each one tasting of its own latitude and each one unmistakably the same dish.
Read the piece →The Seder Plate
The Seder plate turns argument, memory, bitterness and freedom into things a child can point at.
Read the piece →Charoset Across Five Continents
Charoset is the same symbol everywhere and never the same recipe twice: mortar made from the fruit each diaspora had at hand.
Read the piece →Challah, Jachnun, and Kubaneh
Three breads show the same Shabbat grammar in different dough: braided Ashkenazi challah and Yemenite breads that sleep overnight.
Read the piece →The Bagel
The bagel is boiled dough with a migration history: Polish Jewish craft, New York labour, and a breakfast that became global.
Read the piece →Gefilte Fish
Gefilte fish is thrift, law and affection in one dish: a way of stretching fish, avoiding bones on Shabbat, and feeding a crowd.
Read the piece →Coffee and the Jewish World
From a Yemeni bean to the Vienna cafe, Jews kept turning up where coffee made trade, conversation and modernity possible.
Read the piece →In the workshop