Elissa Atlman finds brotherhood and understanding in, of all places, The Ten Commandments, while making matzo meal sponge cake for Passover.
About Elissa Altman
Elissa Altman is a regular food columnist for The Huffington Post, founder of the James Beard Award-winning blog PoorMansFeast.com, and the author of Big Food. Her work has been published in Saveur, the New York Times, Northeast Magazine, and other national publications.
New Year’s Revolution
Jan 23, 2009 by
New Year’s resolutions. We start with good intentions to eat healthy, then by February it’s duck fat and lardons. Just ask writer Elissa Altman.
Readings: “The Taste of Security”
Jan 18, 2007 by
A writer recalls the challenges her father faced smuggling chicken fat and chopped liver—Jewish contraband—back home across the border.