Today, more than 800,000 food products are certified kosher by the Orthodox Union. It all started with a chemist, a rabbi, a pickle company, and a brand of soda.
They may be only Band-Aids for the region’s food insecurity, but “blessings boxes” are popping up in more and more parts of Appalachia, dutifully refilled by local pastors, police officers, and anyone with a box of pasta to spare.
Drinking in this Mexican border community involves tracing the grand lineage of the margarita. But also grappling with recent cartel violence, and a slow recovery.
On this episode, we talked to Julia Turshen about her new cookbook, Now & Again, her many cookbook collaborations, and why she decided to start Equity At The Table, a database of food professionals in the POC and LGBTQ community.
In dishes like ribollita, açorda, and mille fanti, a little bit of week-old bread becomes a comforting porridge that will put you to sleep—in a good way.