Archive - The Schmaltz

Latkes in the age of TikTok

Can traditional foods survive?

Jan 3 •

October 2024

The city of Ashkenazi angels

Slipping into Schmaltz-mode in LA

Oct 8, 2024 •

June 2024

Cheesecake and Cicero

On secular liturgy, and food as kosmopolitan glue

Jun 21, 2024 •

May 2024

#Recipe 4: Chopped Liver

And a note to self: purchase a cleaver

May 15, 2024 •

April 2024

#Recipe 3: Red Mullet, Wild Garlic & White Asparagus

A new Passover tradition

Apr 22, 2024 •

March 2024

#Recipe 2: Apricot Chicken with White Pepper, Vin Jaune, and Dill

A version of my grandmother's take on a retro dish

Mar 13, 2024 •

Why sauerkraut didn’t became zoyerkraut

Experience eclipses fantasy

Mar 8, 2024 •

February 2024

#Recipe 1: Perennial Latkes

Sizzling oil and browning potatoes

Feb 14, 2024 •

January 2024

A kosher turkey

Some notes on British-Jewishness

Jan 12, 2024 •

December 2023

Some dishes don’t belong in restaurants

Dec 15, 2023 •

Fourteen hours in the oven

You shall feast today on cholent!

Dec 8, 2023 •

November 2023

A tale of two cholents

Fusion needn't obscure the essence of a dish

Nov 2, 2023 •

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