It’s not what you’re used to piling on a bagel at the Yom Kippur break-fast, but gravlax is way cheaper, easy to make at home and equally perfect for the holidays.
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Fridge Fish?
About the Author
Hillary Busis is Mashable’s deputy entertainment editor and a former editor at Entertainment Weekly. Her work has appeared on Vulture, Slate, The Wall Street Journal and Jewcy, among other publications. She blogs at And Such Small Portions. She lives in Brooklyn with her fiancé and too many books.
Gravlax
First and foremost: Gravlax is not what you’re used to piling high on a sesame bagel with scallion cream cheese, red onion and tomato. That sort of fish—also known as Nova or Scottish-style salmon—is brined, then smoked, a double-headed curing process that gives it its signature flavor and texture. Gravlax, though, cuts smoke out of…
The Cookie that Binds Us All Together
There is one food that connects Hillary’s Jewish background and her fiancé’s Italian-American one: that dry, almond-speckled cookie that grandmothers have been pushing on reluctant kids for billions of years (rough estimation).
Nut Sticks, aka Mandel Bread, aka Mandelbrot
I’m an Ashkenazi Jew. My fiancé is Italian-American. Our ancestral food cultures—meat-and-potatoes kosher versus Mediterranean Treif City—have just about nothing in common, beyond the fact that both of our people eat bread and drink wine. (When it comes to the latter, his people’s is definitely better.) But there is one dish that connects our respective…
A Journey through My Grandma’s Cookbook
Sifting through her grandmother’s belongings after her funeral last summer, Hillary discovered a treasure in the form of Nonnie’s hand-typed cookbook and decided to cook and blog her way through it.
Nonnie’s Apple Cake
One of my greatest triumphs in cooking through my grandmother Nonnie’s cookbook so far was her apple cake, a welcome addition to any dessert spread, whether it’s a high holiday or a normal weeknight. “Cake” is right there in the name, but it’s more like a marvelous mess of softly yielding apple chunks just barely…
