Talk & Taste: German-Jewish Holiday Celebration

$25 · Offered by Kitchen Arts & Letters · No longer available

Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 Time: 6:30pm Essex Market, 88 Essex St, NY, NY, 10002 Join us for some local history, a bit of entertainment and storytelling, and a good nosh! Throughout its history, the Lower East Side has been home to nearly every immigrant group that arrived in New York City to pursue the American Dream. By the 1850s, the German population was so large that the area became known as Kleindeutschland . German Jews were also part of this settlement. They “ laid the groundwork for the Lower East Side to become the center of Jewish culture in New York in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when even larger numbers of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe landed on our shore . ” To celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah and our neighborhood’s German-Jewish heritage, we are excited to welcome Gabi Rossmer Gropman and Sonya Gropman , authors of The German-Jewish Cookbook: Recipes and History of a Cuisine to the Essex Market Kitchen for a cooking demonstration, tasting, and cookbook signing. Sonya Gropman, a local food tour guide, artist, and writer, and her mother and co-author Gabi will teach Chef Annette Tomei how to prepare special Hanukkah-inspired recipes from their cookbook including a special holiday bread that is traditional to Germany, Berches , as well as Herring Salad and another German-Jewish specialty rarely seen outside Germany, Knee Doughnuts. There’ll be lots of delicious noshes to sample provided by Chef Annette and some of our mark

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