Welcome to Yiddishland!

This is a project I’ve been working on for a while now where I take people into the creative kitchens of Jews all across Yiddishland, which I’m roughly defining as anywhere the descendants of Yiddish-speaking Jews have ended up in the world.

Now before I hand the mic over to my guests for the rest of the podcast, I figured I ought to answer the obvious question: Why me? Why am I hosting this thing?

But hey, if you don’t really care about me or why I’m doing this thing and you just want to get straight to the kitchen with our guests, then I’ve got good news for ya! I’ve uploaded the first official episode simultaneously with Jeremy Umansky from Larder Delicatessen & Bakery in Cleveland, Ohio. So you can skip ahead to that if you want.

If you do want a little context, then stick around.