Category Archives: Bonnie Stern

Tis the Season for Jewish Penicillin: Chicken Soup Soothes both Body and Soul

My Jew­ish­ness is fraught with com­plex­i­ties and contradictions.

Raised with­out any reli­gion in the North Lon­don sub­urb of Finch­ley in post-war Britain, it was white-bread, white-collar and Anglo-Saxon all the way. (This is not the case today, I’ve noted on recent vis­its, in a neigh­bour­hood where kebab shops, curry houses and the Tally Ho! pub rub shoul­ders in a some­what seedy mul­ti­cul­tural mix).

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Cooking up a Storm with the Help of my Kitchen Sisters

For some rea­son — prob­a­bly as an anti­dote to stress, this being the onset of that silly sea­son — I’ve been cook­ing a lot of late, in par­tic­u­lar try­ing new recipes from books by my Toronto foodie friends.

If you’ve read the pre­vi­ous blog — my tragic tale of the miss­ing cook­books — you’ll under­stand why the tomes in ques­tion are dear to my heart.

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