Talk to you all again April 19ish

[fignewton]

I've had very little time this week for fandom, and with Pesach starting tomorrow night, no time at all right now. Sadly, the week-long delay in the jacksamfriends ficathon means I can't read all the tempting new fic at the moment. Mind you, it was a good thing, since I only finished mine this week, but... :)

Anyway, I've read a few of them, and I'll squeeze in a few more now (at random) before I sign off. I hope to be able to check my e-mail and/or flist sporadically early next week, but if you post something that you think I'll enjoy, I'd appreciate your leaving a link to it here.

Try not to break the internet while I'm gone! And if you all migrate wholesale to Dreamwidth (who would blame you?), don't forget to leave a note. :)

Comments

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Not at all.

Charoset is, well, there are a lot of variations but it's usually some form of fruit and some form of nut blended/chopped/shredded and mixed with ...other things.

My family's simple standard recipe involves apples, walnuts, cinnamon, a little honey, and red wine. You eat it on Matzah - it's a traditional part of a Sedar and otherwise very yummy.

Halvah has a much more wider and varied history across a lot more cultures in comparison and doesn't show up as a ritual food in any Jewish holiday, as far as I know. But it is VERY YUMMY! (even if I spent 10 days in Israel looking for it and only finally found it at the Duty Free in the airport)

[cnidarian.livejournal.com]

Ahh ok. We sometimes eat Matzah (though I didn't know it was called that, nor its significance).

I know halvah is mainly Arabic, but I thought it was also available in the Jewish parts too. (It's probably a good thing you couldn't find it easily - that stuff is high on the energy side!)

Thank you for the detailed answer!

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Ahh ok. We sometimes eat Matzah (though I didn't know it was called that, nor its significance).

Did you mean "Matzah" or "charoset"?

Variations on halvah is actually eaten in a wide swath from India to Ethiopia and into Eastern Europe. It's actually pretty interesting how much variety and history and cultural significance it has (as a funeral food, as an energy food for traveling, etc, etc). It is definitely an element of Jewish culture - depending on which strain of diaspora group you come from. And it's all over Israel - I just managed to never find it. Which made me very, very sad. (I spent my entire life with my mom telling me how the halvah she got in Israel was WAY better than any halvah we could find in the states. But the stuff I got in New York's Lower East Side was way better than in Ben Guiron Airport. Ah well.)

welcome! (sorry, you get me talking about food and I can go for hours)

[cnidarian.livejournal.com]

I meant Matzah (really thin, like a cracker but not, pale but with darker cooked dimples and lots of pin holes in it?).

Yeah I saw halva in India and it looked totally different (in some cases, bright green which I'm sure isn't right somehow ;)) Bad luck with not finding any.

No worries, it's all fascinating and hey, food is a great topic.