L’Dor V’Dor: Creating Comfort and Sharing Traditions in a Disembodied Time

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Rachelle H. Saltzman

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During the seemingly endless pandemic years of 2020-21, the very act of making traditional family foods became an obsession for many. It is in the doing, the making of recipes, especially those from deceased family members, that we embody and thus perform our cultural heritage. Further, when we gift those labor-intensive foods to distant family members, we not only provide comfort for them, but we also create it for ourselves.

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