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On the chemistry of cultural memory
Dec 31, 2025 • Joel Hart
Latkes in the age of TikTok
Can traditional foods survive?
Jan 3, 2025 • Joel Hart
The city of Ashkenazi angels
Slipping into Schmaltz-mode in LA
Oct 8, 2024 • Joel Hart
Cheesecake and Cicero
On secular liturgy, and food as kosmopolitan glue
Jun 21, 2024 • Joel Hart
#Recipe 4: Chopped Liver
And a note to self: purchase a cleaver
May 15, 2024 • Joel Hart
#Recipe 3: Red Mullet, Wild Garlic & White Asparagus
A new Passover tradition
Apr 22, 2024 • Joel Hart
#Recipe 2: Apricot Chicken with White Pepper, Vin Jaune, and Dill
A version of my grandmother's take on a retro dish
Mar 13, 2024 • Joel Hart
Why sauerkraut didn’t became zoyerkraut
Experience eclipses fantasy
Mar 8, 2024 • Joel Hart
The Schmaltz
The Schmaltz
A newsletter by Joel Hart exploring cooking, nostalgia, identity and becoming through the lens of Ashkenazi-Jewish food.
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