A Taste of the Old World: Jewish Food and Memory

Image:  Fernando Mafra -- Flickr

Image: Fernando Mafra — Flickr

Katz’s. Russ & Daughters. Zabar’s. Yonah Schimmel’s. Barney Greengrass. Mile End Delicatessen.  These are names, both old and new, that define a distinctly New York brand of comfort food.  Join a panel of leading food writers, purveyors and restaurant owners for a panel discussion about the powerful connection between Jewish food and memory, and why, “at this moment in 21st-century New York, the cutting edge of cuisine is the beet-heavy, cabbage-friendly, herring-loving diet of 19th-century Jews in Eastern Europe (Julia Moskin, New York Times).

Noah Bermanoff, chef and the Founder, Creative Director and Managing Partner of Mile End Delicatessen
Eve Jochnowitz, culinary ethnographer, chef, baker, and Yiddish instructor at the YIVO Institute
Mark Russ Federman, author of Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House that Herring Built (2013)
Laura Silver, author of Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food (2014)
Julia Moskin (moderator), reporter for the New York Times Dining section

Co-presented with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.











When: Thu., Mar. 5, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Where: Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave.
212-534-1672
Price: $16
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Image:  Fernando Mafra -- Flickr

Image: Fernando Mafra — Flickr

Katz’s. Russ & Daughters. Zabar’s. Yonah Schimmel’s. Barney Greengrass. Mile End Delicatessen.  These are names, both old and new, that define a distinctly New York brand of comfort food.  Join a panel of leading food writers, purveyors and restaurant owners for a panel discussion about the powerful connection between Jewish food and memory, and why, “at this moment in 21st-century New York, the cutting edge of cuisine is the beet-heavy, cabbage-friendly, herring-loving diet of 19th-century Jews in Eastern Europe (Julia Moskin, New York Times).

Noah Bermanoff, chef and the Founder, Creative Director and Managing Partner of Mile End Delicatessen
Eve Jochnowitz, culinary ethnographer, chef, baker, and Yiddish instructor at the YIVO Institute
Mark Russ Federman, author of Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House that Herring Built (2013)
Laura Silver, author of Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food (2014)
Julia Moskin (moderator), reporter for the New York Times Dining section

Co-presented with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

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