----------------------- Message requiring your approval ---------------------- From: alba toscano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ha-Safran]: Graduation Gifts
This question has come up several times on the USCJ Presidents's list as well.
Usually it's a toss up between a pair of candle stick holders and a Etz Jaim
jumash neither of which are very appropriate because it's like getting socks and
shoes for your birthday. One president-guy on the list told me that he had gotten
a Hertz jumash for his bar mitsva. When he got around to opening it 30 years later
he found an envelope with a 50$ bill which inflation had turned into movies,
popcorn and a coke for two.
When I went away to college I got a new copy of Webster's collegiate dictionary. I
had to buy my own first cookbook which I still have and which today is a total
mess: Molly Lyon bar-David's "The Israeli Cook Book", Crown Publishers, 1964,
LCCCN� 63-21117. I'm willing to wager that if you give some kid, boy or girl, a
choice between any book at all and a youthful jewish cookbook in the other, 7 out
of 10 times they'll go for the kosher eats.
Jewish kid's should be given jewish cookbooks when they're about 8 or 10 years
old. I don't know a single kid who has ever turned down a cooking activity. They
love to cook stuff and then have you eat it with them no matter how weird it turns
out. How in future life will a jewish child learn jewish cooking if they're never
allowed into the kitchen which admittedly can be a dangerous place but so is
getting up in the morning?
In 1986, my ex-husband and I were on a vacation in Baja California (Mexico). We
went to a itty-bitty pueblo in the San Francisco mountains to rent a guide and
burros. The first night we were to sleep in a kind of barn-shed attached to a
house-sortof where a little girl 11-years-old-maybe named Gertrudis lived. That
afternoon she made sweet bean turn-overs from scratch. Beans in a pot over coals.
The dough. Set aside. Beans into paste between two rocks. Roll out dough, fill,
press edges closed, put on a clay plate and into the wood-burning brick oven. All
the while there was this troop of 8 little boys (and us gringos) that followed her
about in intense silence. When the turnovers came out of the oven, before they had
cooled enough to grab without burning their fingers, the turn-overs disappeared
along with the little boys. We did not see or smell either again. Gertrudis didn't
get so much as a sniff but didn't seem to be bothered at all. I on the other hand
was quite jealous of her culinary skills.
Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti "La Javura" Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia
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