Boreka

Last week my sister Barbara was visiting from the East Coast, with her daughter and granddaughter.  Along with Nona that made 4 generations all together.  We had a lot of fun reminiscing and talking about passing the culinary torch down to generation number three.  One of the fondest memories in our family is all of the wonderful things Nona baked for Jewish holidays and every week Shabbat dinner and lunch.  My mother and grandmother truly had ‘blessed hands’ or as they say in Ladino ‘bendicias manos’.  The title of ‘bendicias manos’ embodies a certain amount of skill, patience, artistic ability, and devotion to the celebration of Jewish holidays and family in the person with this attribute. [click to continue…]

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