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Cooking on the Farm, part 2: Cabbage Slaw (recipe)
What a pleasure to think back to that balmy autumn day on Long Island, while we shovel out of our two feet of snow here in Boston. This is a perfect time, when pretty much everything has closed down in...
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A Talk and Food Tasting in NYC
We would like to let you know that we will be presenting a talk about German-Jewish cuisine in NYC next week, including a tasting of some of our recipes. We would love to see you there if you are in...
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On Sausages
image from aufschnitt.net Boston being Boston, the Boston Globe’s food pages last month turned to Irish food traditions, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. In this article, Jane Dornbusch wrote about a...
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Herta’s Krokerle (Spiced Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies) with Recipe
Krokerle Ours is a story of continuity and discontinuity – a story of community and people within that community. For me (Gaby), the story takes place in a visually stunning setting, one in which the...
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Bloch & Falk: A Special Wurst (sausage) Store
Herta Bloch, 2013, NYC Herta Bloch — who we wrote about in our last post HERE — knew practically everyone in the German-Jewish community of Washington Heights in NYC between the 1940s through the...
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Bamberger Hörnla (Bamberg Potato)
On our recent trip to Bamberg, I stopped by the ObstMarkt in the middle of a plaza in the heart of the Old City (the literal translation is “fruit market”, though vegetables are sold there as well). I...
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Bamberg: At the Villa Dessauer
My image of Bamberg began before I ever went there — starting with the black-and-white photo of the rivers and bridges and medieval buildings hanging in our New York City apartment during my childhood,...
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A Backyard Apple Tree
Sonya and I are both agriculture lovers, though we live in relatively urban areas — Sonya in NYC, me in a “streetcar” suburb of Boston (one of the communities that sits along what once was a route of...
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German-Jewish Cookbook Announcement!
We are writing a cookbook! We are very excited to announce that Brandeis University Press – a member press of University Press of New England – will publish our German-Jewish cookbook as part of the...
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Pesach Seder Meal in Berlin March 28th
We are very excited to be cooking and serving a Pesach seder meal in collaboration with Ulrich Krauss at Zagreus Projekt, a gallery in the Mitte neighborhood of Berlin that exhibits art and also...
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Can German-Jewish Food be the next culinary trend?
We are both honored and flattered by the article “Can German-Jewish Food be the next culinary trend?“, written by Wes Eichenwald for The Jewish Advocate, the Boston weekly newspaper. But more than...
View ArticleUpdate on The German-Jewish Cookbook
We have posted a lot of silence here since last spring, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been quiet. We’ve actually been quite busy, and a *lot* has happened in that time. We realize we’ve been negligent in...
View ArticleThe German-Jewish Cookbook will be published on September 5th!
We realize we’ve been absent from these parts for quite a few months…it turns out that the many (many!) steps of writing a book take a lot of time. The cover of our soon-to-be-published cookbook is...
View ArticleThe German-Jewish Cookbook on book tour
Hello! It’s been a while – a very long while, we didn’t mean for almost 6 months to lapse – and there’s been a lot going on since we last checked in here. We’ll do our best to start catching up on the...
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Hello! We are popping in to announce a few upcoming book events that we are excited about. Art Exhibition, Boston, MA – We both studied art at Massachusetts College of Art + Design and we’re thrilled...
View ArticleArt + Food in Berlin
artwork above, left to right: Gabrielle Rossmer, Sonya Gropman, Luther Price. One More Time – art exhibition + dinners Gabrielle Rossmer, Sonya Gropman and Luther Price March 5th – April 14th — opening...
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