Talks & Cooking Classes
Born in the USSR, Raised in Canada: A Reading in Support of Ukraine
Six Canadian writers with roots in the USSR share fiction and nonfiction about life in a multiplicity of cultures, languages and identities.
This event brings together six established authors who were born in the former Soviet Union and immigrated to Canada as children. In their fiction and nonfiction they explore topics of multicultural identity, life under communism, Jewish culture, food, history, and making a home in a strange land.
This event is hosted by Punctured Lines, a feminist blog designed to highlight writing by those from the former Soviet Union now living in various diasporas and by those who live in the post-Soviet space.
Sunday, May 15, 2022
3pm EST
Online event
Making room for the Soviet in Ashkenazi food
What happens when anti-Semitism meets Bolshevik food policies? Call it Russian-Jewish food or Soviet-Jewish food, but the result is not the Russian food your bubbe may have fed you. Contact me if you're looking for a speaker on Soviet-Jewish food and history.
I also teach cooking classes on Soviet-era Russian Jewish food.
Want to know more? Read the article that started it all, Defining Soviet-Jewish Cuisine.
Please note - I only give talks in English.
Past Events
Russian Salad Class
Two Russian salads to bring in the spring — Olivier and Mimosa — for Adraba Jewish high school.
Cooking Class
Savoury Russian Zakuski Hamantaschen
Blending Russian and Jewish traditions for a Purim dish that could have been if Judaism had been permitted in the USSR.
Cooking Class
In Conversation with Darra Goldstein
Russian food, Jewish food and of course, New Year's Eve menus.
Event
Jewish& - Building the Jewish Cookbook
Learn to make Rassolnik, a quintessential and much-loved Russian pickle soup
Cooking Class
Limmud FSU Toronto
At the Crossroads of Treyf and Rootless Cosmopolitanism — Defining Soviet-Jewish Food
Talk
Tikkun Leil Shavuot
At the Crossroads of Treyf and Rootless Cosmopolitanism — Defining Soviet-Jewish Food
Talk
Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Jewish Food Bracket - Best Jewish Food Debate
Panel
Hillel Ontario J. Lead Retreat
Can Soviet food be Jewish?
Talk
Ashkenaz Festival
Defining Soviet-Jewish Cuisine
Talk
Limmud FSU Canada
What Makes Russian-Jews Jewish?
Moderator