#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay I want acknowledge that part of my dedicated interests in traditional Jewish foodways drew inspiration from Joan Nathan's recipe adaptation of the Beigel family challah. Its my favorite and it was saved by a family decimated in the Shoah.
So for me, I understood what it meant to grasp onto these culinary memories because they represented people and life beyond trauma. People living from day to day. It was this inner dialogue that fertilized my work interpreting the food and lives of the American enslaved.
u know, this isn't a brag. Its hard to confess that u are already complete but u also feel this urge to belong& share&adapt&be a part of something only exceptional when practiced right--America. The jewelry, the prize is to tell the story better than when it was told to u.
If u can show ppl how the Ancestors ate, cooked, procured, derived food, you can show people they truly existed. Then you can look their deniers in the face while the okra or kugel or chocho or bimuelos confess our existence and loves...you can't erase hearts and stomachs.
I'm not a reenactor. I'm a resister. I don't enjoy the world of enslavement, the Shoah,Jim Crow or pogroms. But the ppl who criticize me don't get it. This isn't a hobby.I'm an old soul.A gilgul.I've been here.I'm goaded on by the desire to do remember and resist.
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