When I was in graduate school researching newspapers from the 1780s
and ’90s, I was surprised to find Philadelphia merchants advertising
olive oil, capers and anchovies. Who ate these foods, I wondered, and
what did they make with them? These and other Mediterranean foods, I
learned, were Jewish contributions to American cuisine.
The earliest Jews in North America had Iberian roots – their
ancestors had either been expelled from Iberia (Spain or Portugal) or
had formally converted to Christianity and practiced Judaism
secretly. Jewish cuisine in Britain and its North American colonies
reflected this Iberian heritage and was familiar enough that one of the
leading 18th-century British cookbooks includes several recipes for
dishes “Jews way.‘”
Hannah Glasse’s “The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy,” first
published in England in 1747, was the most popular cookbook in both
18th-century Britain and America. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
owned copies, and Benjamin Franklin liked the book’s recipes enough to
translate some into French, perhaps to make sure that while he was on
his diplomatic trips to Paris in the 1760s and ’70s, someone would know
how to cook properly.
…
“The Art of Cookery” also recognized a distinct Jewish culinary
influence. The 1760 edition includes six recipes for dishes prepared in a
Jewish style: “haddocks the Jews way,” “The Jews way of preserving
salmon, and all sorts of fish,” “marmalade of eggs the Jews way,” “To
stew green peas the Jews way,” “English Jews puddings; an excellent dish
for six or seven people, for the expense of six pence” and “The Jews
way to pickle beef, which will go good to the West Indies, and keep a
year good in the pickle, and with care will go to the East Indies.”
FOOD DISCOURSE: reblog with ur opinions on guacamole, olives, mango, hummus, tomatoes, and cannolis
Okay. I LOVE guacamole, used to hate olives and now I actually kind of like them in small amounts, I prefer mango sorbet to the actual fruit but I do enjoy it sometimes, hummus is delicious, I love tomatoes… and I know some of you are going to think I am nuts, but… I don’t like cannolis. The filling is just too rich and custard-y for me to handle. I also don’t like cakes with pudding filling so like… That’s a thing.
Today I was rehearsing with the guitarist from the show I’m doing and I was coughing up a lung bc I’m sick and I was just kidding but I told him he needed to bring me a lemon for me to slice up and put in a cup of tea and so I show up to the show tonight to get ready and he sets down a big ass lemon on my dressing room table and then brings out like 5 boxes of Halloween Oreos and for those of you who pay attention to my posts you know what a big fucking deal that is and so long story short I now have a lemon and more Oreos than I know what to do with
update: tonight he brought me 2 lemons and a bag of cough drops. i’m running out of room in my fruit drawer in the fridge because i have so many damn lemons.
LIFE IS GIVING U LEMONS, MAKE SO LEMONADE !!!!!
okay but it wasn’t life it was a guy named howard
Update: tonight there were 3 lemons
Update: 4 lemons
Another update: I have 10 lemons and a date for Friday night
update: lemon boy carved pumpkins to ask me to be his lemon girl so lemon boy is now lemon boyfriend
update: lemon boyfriend and lemon girlfriend are very happy
update: lemon boyfriend and lemon girlfriend took a trip to the mountains this summer and decided that once they’ve graduated & are successfully pretending to be grown ups they will become lemon husband and lemon wife
hey guys guess what it’s been 2 years since the pumpkins and
we’re still each other’s biggest fans
Omg this is the cutest story 😍
THE TAG ON THE FIRST POST SAID HER ROOMMATE HAD A HUGE thing for him what HAPPENED!!!!
my roommate the time had a serious boyfriend of a few years and tried to tell me i couldn’t date howard. turns out she wasn’t the greatest friend and i didn’t need that kind of negativity in my life. so i got a new roommate. Howard.
that’s what happened
LIFE GAVE YOU LEMONS AND TURNED IT INTO LEMON HUSBAND AND LEMON WIFE
I feel like one of the biggest misconceptions out there is that all fanfic is written by 12 and 13 year olds
Like the other day I read a fanfic where Jason Todd is remodeling his kitchen and is concerned about wooden countertops because what if you get raw chicken on your wooden countertop?
You think a 13 year old thinks about countertops? Think again my friend that fic was written by an Adult
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