When I first saw the movie The 300 Spartans I was only seven-years-old but it made an impression on me that has endured for the following fifty years. The story of King Leonidas and his heroic stand at the Pass of Thermopylae lit a touch paper in my young spirit that shaped the course ofContinue reading “GILBOA, WHERE THE MIGHTY FELL – and a nation rose…”
Monthly Archives: August 2017
JEWISH ALCHEMY – or how to make schmaltz and grieven…
Many posts ago I promised to do a piece on schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) and its delicious byproduct, grieven (or gribenes), and at last, a couple of years late, here it is. I should point out that now poultry fats are once again in vogue, and have even been declared healthy one can purchase ready-renderedContinue reading “JEWISH ALCHEMY – or how to make schmaltz and grieven…”
