"Kaminer offers insights into this #culinary trend, interviewing young #Jewish #chefs who are marking a professional return to their #Ashkenazi roots. It marks a departure from popular Jewish #food of the last few decades, which often skewed toward healthier Israeli #restaurants—themselves often broadened as “Middle Eastern” or “Mediterranean”. But a newfound wave of Jewish nostalgia, cultural reappropriation and the apolitical joy of #comfortfood have swung open the kitchen door back to blintzes and babka.
Kaminer joins Phoebe Maltz Bovy to discuss the trend and the possible politics underpinning it, including chefs’ own reactions to embracing their Jewish heritage in an era of newfound #antisemitism."
https://thecjn.ca/arts-culture/why-is-ashkenazi-food-suddenly-cool/
