Recipes

Griff Family Recipes for a Sweet New Year

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Giving Thanks for Ma, and Her Turkey, on her Yarzheit

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Mom’s Hamentashen: A Daughter’s Purim Memories

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  Sharon Lotman Stein is the first person you meet when you enter the Museum at Eldridge Street. She runs the front desk Monday through Wednesday. When I sat down with her, she told me her personal Purim holiday story. “My Chicago mother, Lynn Lotman, … Read more

Pretzel Rolls, Salmon Croquettes & Other Immigrant Recipes

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By Gwen Underwood, Museum at Eldridge Street Intern Pushcarts and crowded outdoor marketplaces were a common site for Eastern Europe Jewish immigrants – as can be seen in the Museum’s new exhibition “The Jewish Ghetto in Postcards: From Eastern Europe to the Lower East Side” … Read more

Three Kugels – A Foray into Jewish Cooking

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All my life, I have explored and savored different cultures through their food. I came to the United States from the Dominican Republic when I was four years old. I held onto my own culture very tightly. I listened to Dominican music, ate the food my … Read more