Shmaltz
Fat, especially chicken fat. Used in place of butter in kosher homes when a meat meal is served. The cracklings left after chicken fat is rendered are gribbenes or greevn. My mother made her own chicken fat and kept it in the refrigerator in a Skippy’s Peanut Butter jar ( Read more... )

…certainly beats the Old World version. Then again, we have inherited a bit of that latter in our New World. Founded by Josef Bischof in 1978, the Old World German Restaurant has long hosted periodic celebrations of Hitler’s birthday and conferences of Holocaust revisionists. In 1997 Josef exercised his inalienable rights under the First Amendment ( Read more... )

I am about to write the world’s profoundest poem, with apologies to William James, the only one who has touched my my level of genius:Hogamus, higamus,
God is polygynous.
Higamus, hogamus,
Christ was androgynous.

- Northrop Frye, Late Notebooks, 1982-1990(William James, the author of Varieties of Religious Experience, was frustrated by the ( Read more... )