“You are what you eat”—like many clichés, this is quite literally true. The stuff we ingest into our bodies becomes the very stuff of our bones and blood—even, say our sages, of our souls.
In this collection of 30 articles, essays and stories, we look at the chemistry and character, cosmology and morality, wonder and whimsy, timbre and texture, cunning and comedy, labor and love, guilt and desire, politics and economics, history and future, the Talmud and the Kabbalah of food. Bon appetit!
Readings:
The Sages of the Talmud on Food
Stories:
Kosher Marks
By Michael Medved
Grace After Meals
By Wendy Dickstien
Sitting in a Cafe
By Jay Litvin
The Summer of the Kishka
By Ilana Attia
Cooking the Year
By Ilana Attia
A Set of Dishes
By Dr. Velvl Green
Herschel Goat
told by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yizchak Schneersohn
Shmurah
told by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yizchak Schneersohn
Too Good to be Good
told by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yizchak Schneersohn
The Rabbi and the Ox
By Yanki Tauber
After the Fast
By Yanki Tauber
Cholent
By Yanki Tauber
Blintzes
By Tuvia Bolton
Barrels in the Snow
By Tuvia Bolton
Hard to Swallow
By Yrachmiel Tilles
The Gift
By Yrachmiel Tilles
The Onion Plot
By Yrachmiel Tilles
Insights & Essays:
Holy Lunch
By Yanki Tauber
The Development
By Mattis Kantor
Spiritual Molecules
By Dr. Velvl Green
Anorexia of the Soul
By Dr. Ilsa J. Bick
Eating
By Zvi Yair
Packaging
By Yanki Tauber
The Three Points of the Hamantash
By Israel Rubin
Reverse Biology
based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Eating on the Job
based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
The Seven Kinds
based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
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