Cheese and yogurt waiting to be stirred. Enchiladas are a labor of love, so I keep coming up with lazy methods for getting the same flavors and textures. Read More About two months into my pregnancy, my older brother D said “you’re so lucky you’re doing this in school, it’s way easier.” He wasn’t wrong. […]
At the end of high school, I became really interested in JM Barrie’s classic story of Peter Pan. This made a lot of sense at the time – I was on the cusp of adulthood. But as I contemplate giving birth to two boys, I’m revisiting the story from a new perspective. JM Barrie wrote […]
In this series, I’m talking about big issues in how we think about our scientific past. This week I get into more detail about how astronomy broke away from astrology. Read the first post in this series, on ancient Greece and math. Read the second post, on the Scientific Revolution. In the previous post in […]
I have a confession. For all my Mediterranean obsession, I hate two of the most essential Mediterranean vegetables: eggplant and zucchini. I would refer to zucchini as a useless vegetable – a filler that restaurants throw in to bulk up better vegetables like cauliflower because it has no particular flavor or texture. As for eggplant, […]
The recent synagogue shooting has prompted me to be more open about my thoughts and feelings on being Jewish* in today’s America. We’re caught somewhere between whiteness and historical disenfranchisement, a simultaneous well-known and invisible minority. Read More
People treat learning to cook like some kind of special skill, and the current foodie culture and idolization of chefs doesn’t do a lot to help that. But cooking is just a toolkit of basic techniques, and you can teach yourself these techniques by making just about anything, including box mac’n’cheese. I learned to bake […]
It was perhaps not surprising just after the 2016 election to discover that a portion of president-elect trump’s base espoused ideologies of white supremacy. What was surprising to those who were paying attention but perhaps less familiar, was that trump also garnered significant support from Orthodox Jews, particularly Zionists, both in the US and Israel. […]
These results represent nearly 30 years embedded within the society of North America. Although it is a loose confederation of tribal groups, nearly consumed by fighting between factions within their inter-tribal government, I have been amazed to discover the cultural unity within their tradition of sport, known as Foot-ball. Foot-ball is a simplistic and, indeed, […]
Things are really moving along. This week I finally escaped the moths in my apartment to hang out in Oxford and see some really interesting manuscripts. The infestation finally got to me. I won’t go into the details, but a new creature showed up and I decided it was time to leave. I had already […]
We need to talk about intermittent fasting. I’ve been hearing about something along the lines of this practice for years, but apparently there’s a new fad around it in recent weeks because I’ve now heard about it over the course of three days from two very different sources. The first was my in-laws, who mentioned […]
I’ve written before about how complicated it is to be Ashkenazi in the US, both othered to the extreme by virtue of being non-Christian and having features that are definitely NOT considered the American ideal (curly dark hair and big noses being the obvious ones), while also very much passing as white. Growing up in […]
I’ve written before about how complicated it is to be Ashkenazi in the US, both othered to the extreme by virtue of being non-Christian and having features that are definitely NOT considered the American ideal (curly dark hair and big noses being the obvious ones), while also very much passing as white. Growing up in […]
It’s persimmon season in California, and last month a friend with a tree gifted me with a huge haul of bright orange fruits. I never had persimmons growing up – aside from the fact that they’re not super common on the East Coast, my mom was convinced she was allergic, so we never had the […]
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, I am not offering medical advice. Read More On being the elephant in the room… Read More Pregnancy, like any major life event, has a steep learning curve. You can’t really prepare, because you don’t know how things are going to be for you, but at the same time, […]
