Life's too short to eat bad food
I think it’s fair to say that many have endured a parent’s jesting (mostly) about what will, or will not, be left to you in their Will. It can’t be just a Jewish thing. Usually, it comes off like the Swamp Castle scene in Holy Grail:
“One day, lad, all this will be yours!”
“What, the curtains?”
Now that Passover has ended, permit me to remark upon something that I have observed over recent years: Prepared horseradish does not keep its flavor as well today as it has in the past.
Horseradish and mustard are pretty much the only piquant condiments in the Ashkenazi Jewish pantry.
So, who was Mabel Claire? How could someone whose cookbooks seem ubiquitous in the 1930s be so lost from history?
It is the time of the year when the Fish Fry reigns supreme. I am not a fan.
It’s not that I hate the fry — I just don’t worship it as a true child of Buffalo should. But then, I am not a child of Buffalo. It may be as simple as having had so many that were just bad. You have probably had the same.
Most of one’s life is an entr’acte,’ said Gumbril. – Aldous Huxley October 20, 2022 – April 14, 2024. 542 Earth days or 1.48 years.
Only a man who’s been burned knows what hell is truly like – Sandor Clegane Twenty years ago today, I almost died. I came home