New Year’s resolutions. We start with good intentions to eat healthy, then by February it’s duck fat and lardons and kasha varnishkes. And that’s not a bad thing. Not at all.
About Elissa Altman
Elissa Altman is the author of Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing, Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw, and Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking, and the James Beard Award-winning narrative blog of the same name. Her work has appeared everywhere from Tin House and the New York Times to Saveur and O: The Oprah Magazine.
Readings: “The Taste of Security”
A writer recalls the challenges her father faced smuggling chicken fat and chopped liver—Jewish contraband—back home across the border.