Podcasts by Schmaltzy
Schmaltzy, a new podcast from the Jewish Food Society explores the intersection of Jewish identity and food through live storytelling. Join us for tales from famed chefs, home cooking mavens, grandmothers, TV personalities, and more. Listen with a nosh at hand — you might get hungry.
Host: Amanda Dell.
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From MCATs to Katz’s Deli with Jake Dell from 2022-04-21T10:47:52.992908
Jake Dell, the owner of Katz’s Deli on the Lower East Side, comes from a long legacy of deli owners. So, naturally, he planned to be a doctor. A gap year spent living in his grandfather’s footst...
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Midnight Latkes with Liz Neumark from 2022-04-21T10:47:52.987552
Twenty years ago, Liz Neumark was a mother to four kids under 10 and was just getting her catering company off the ground. One night, the two youngest pleaded with her to abandon bedtime and mak...
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“This Is the Way We Do It” with Baker Uri Scheft from 2022-04-21T10:47:52.979844
Acclaimed Israeli baker Uri Scheft grew up in two worlds: a very proper Danish home, that just happened to be located in Israel. Here, there was a particular way to do everything — and it did no...
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The Pies That Bind Them with Shifra Cornfeld from 2022-04-21T10:47:52.968485
After Israeli writer Shifra Cornfeld left the Orthodox community she was raised in, she didn’t always see eye to eye with her father. But one thing that brings them together is pecan pie — if th...
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Stepping up to the Seder with Emily Schultz from 2022-04-14T10:30
Social media maven Emily Schultz shares a funny and poignant coming-of-age story about Passover — and her very first Seder as an adult.
For Passover recipes and stories from around the wor...
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Season Finale: All Tied Up with Peter Hoffman from 2021-06-17T10:00
Before becoming a renowned chef and author of a new memoir, Peter Hoffman was just a young cook in the weeds, preparing a special meal for his mom. Was this the moment to finally take some help ...
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Life, Death and Coffee with Joshua David Stein from 2021-06-10T14:04:29
Joshua David Stein missed the opportunity to say goodbye to his beloved grandfather because of a mismade coffee. Eventually, he realized there was more to life than a proper macchiato.
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There Was Cheese Parked in Adeena Sussman’s Garage from 2021-05-27T10:00
In the 1970’s, cookbook author Adeena Sussman’s parents knew something was missing from their Jewish community in Palo Alto, California. To fill the void, they opened the most unlikely shop in t...
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Yearning for Zion with Restaurateur Beejhy Barhany from 2021-04-23T10:56:50
As a young child, Beejhy Barhany left her village in Ethiopia and traveled for three years to reach Israel. But, as she grew up, the Promised Land wasn’t quite as she imagined it. Today in New Y...
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The Great Matzo Ball Mix-up with Hariette Skidelsky from 2021-03-26T12:46:15
Hariette Skidelsky’s Romanian grandmother added more water to the soup pot to stretch her recipe everytime she had a new child. As the next generations prospered, the soup grew robust — filled w...
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Jake Cohen’s Very Blended Passover Seder from 2021-03-19T10:30
When cookbook author Jake Cohen started dating the nicest Jewish boy in 2015, he learned that Seder with his future-in-laws looked totally different than anything he ever imagined. Turns out, th...
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Season Finale with Gil Hovav + Einat Admony from 2020-12-22T11:30
Liz Alpern: A Gefilte Fish Out of Water from 2020-11-13T11:00
When Liz Alpern arrived at business school, she didn’t exactly fit in. She rocked a carefully styled lesbian haircut, smelled of onions, and professed a deep passion for her gefilte fish company...
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Umber Ahmad’s Superpower from 2020-10-23T14:46:16
Growing up in Michigan, Umber Ahmad’s family stood out. Immigrants from Pakistan, they were living “1000 Arabian Nights,” she jokes. When Umber brought friends over for playdates, she dreamed th...
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Adam Richman Finds Bagels and His Way Home from 2020-09-24T01:00:12
“Man v. Food” host Adam Richman grew up as a not so typical Jewish kid in Brooklyn. He downed Carribean food, got deep into The Smiths, and rocked a bi-level haircut. Yet, every Yom Kippur, he f...
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A Very Texan Rosh Hashanah with Zoe Kanan from 2020-09-14T19:00:03
Acclaimed baker Zoe Kanan’s grandmother Helen was an unlikely Texan. A born-and-bred New Yorker, she moved to Houston to be near her daughter and granddaughter — and Jim, not the son-in-law she ...
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