SFRATTI – JUDEO TUSCAN HONEY AND NUT COOKIES
These stick-shaped treats derive their name from the Italian word “sfratto”, meaning eviction. On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, as is the custom amongst Jews from many different cultures and backgrounds, the Jews of Tuscany would surround themselves with symbolic foods, whose names also derived from, or alluded to, proclamations about the year ahead, […]
TURKISH COFFEE FLANS
Like so many other commodities Jews have been involved in the coffee trade from its very beginning. The first coffee house opened in Turkey in 1475 where it became a national craze, not just a meeting place but the government suspected the coffee to be a ruse to undermine the sultan. In 1651 an immigrant […]
MEDIAS – JUDEO STUFFED ZUCCHINI
There are many dishes I associate with my Savta Zahava, and although others make, fish and kubbe and ejeh and all manners of foods, this dish is unique to my grandmothers family and aside for her and her sisters I haven’t encountered others who stuff the zucchini the way she does or calls them medias, […]
