Synagogue and CSA and Boosh - Oh my!

[gina_r_snape]

Greetings, flist!

Last weekend T-Rex and I went to the "Egg Cream and Egg Roll" Festival. It was basically a street fair that strove to illustrate the Chinese and Jewish heritages thriving and co-mingling in the Lower East Side. The egg rolls were kosher, and surprisingly good with an egg cream (which, despite the name does NOT contain eggs

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[cmcmck]

That reminds me of the 'New' Synagogue in Prague although that is rather, shall we say, colourful! :o)

[gina_r_snape]

I don't recall the "New" Synagogue in Prague. Though I do recall the old Jewish Cemetery with the Hebrew clock. I was there about 20 years ago.

I was struck how reminiscent this one was of a certain style of churches. My friend Dan informs me that they would have built it influenced by architectural fads of the day.

[cmcmck]

That's true.

Our local syangogue, one of the oldest in the UK, has a late 17th century core but was rebuilt and enlarged in the mid 19th century and looks rather like an Anglican church of that period.

[ex_logospil]

That you for sharing the amazing photos! I so love that starry glass... Beautiful :-)

Good luck with the herb pot! *rooting for you*

[gina_r_snape]

You're very welcome! It was breathtaking, truly.

Thanks for "rooting for me"! Pun intended? ;-)

[iddewes]

So you are going to the show in California! Have fun, the Boosh are great live. ;) I had to look up egg cream, and I see it's a Brooklyn invention, which explains why I never heard of it. ;) Is that an Orthodox synagogue or just an old one that still has the ladies' gallery in it?

[gina_r_snape]

We are! I will fiiiinally get to see them live.

Egg cream is milk, chocolate syrup, and seltzer. It's "chocolate milk soda" if you will. Some places make it better than others. There's a trick in knowing how to mix it, it seems.

I think it was an Orthodox synagogue. Their website is

http://www.eldridgestreet.org

Consider that it was built in the 1800s.

[fidelioscabinet]

Yay! You're still out there getting into things!

I hope the produce shares go well--there's something about stuff that hasn't been shipped across half the continent.

[gina_r_snape]

Yes, I am!

The strawberries were exquisite. The lettuce - sooooo fresh. There's no comparison, even to the organic stuff you can buy in the markets, because it was picked that morning (and, as you say, not shipped across half the continent).

I hope to post pictures, although not nearly as much as my CSA blogging summer.

[gina_r_snape]

It truly is. If you ever visit NYC, put it on your list!

And, thanks. :) I still can't believe we'll be making a year. It's all kinds of amazing.