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Rosa Parks’ Peanut Butter Pancakes

Learn to make Rosa Parks’ Featherlite Peanut Butter Pancakes with this vintage recipe and step-by-step photos. Kosher, Dairy, Vegetarian. Read More

The Golden Girls Cheesecake

The Golden Girls Cheesecake

Recipe for The Golden Girls Cheesecake. Celebrate Betty White’s birthday with Sophia Petrillo’s Double Fudge Amaretto Ricotta Cheesecake. Read More

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Elvis Presley’s Sunday Meatloaf

Make Elvis Presley’s Sunday Meatloaf, a recipe from the Presley Family Cookbook, and learn about the King’s Jewish ancestry. Kosher, Meat. Read More

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Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Cake

Learn to make Emily Dickinson’s recipe for Coconut Cake from an antique recipe in Emily’s handwriting. Kosher, Dairy, Cocoanut. Read More

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Potato Bhajee

Vintage kosher Jewish Indian recipe for Potato Bhajee from a 1922 cookbook called the Jewish Cookery Book. Pareve. Read More

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A Vintage Jewish Cookbook from Calcutta, India

The Shiksa in the Kitchen explores the history of Jews in India, and a kosher vintage Jewish cookbook published in Calcutta in 1922. Read More

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Emily Dickinson, A Poet in the Kitchen

Emily Dickinson is best known as one of the greatest poets in American history. But did you know that she loved to cook and bake? Read More

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What Elvis Ate – Skillet Cornbread

Learn to make Southern-style skillet cornbread with buttermilk, the way Elvis Presley might have enjoyed it at Graceland in Memphis. Read More

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Happy Birthday Lucille Ball!

Celebrating Lucille Ball and her show I Love Lucy on what would have been her 100th birthday. Find out what Lucy’s favorite food was. Read More

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Chocolate Icebox Pie

Learn to make Chocolate Icebox Pie topped with whipped cream and nuts from the vintage 1950′s cookbook, Recipes from Old Virginia. Kosher, Dairy Read More

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Kourabiedes – Greek Butter Cookies

This authentic recipe for Rena Carasso’s Kourabiedes, aka Greek Butter Cookies, appears in the Holocaust Survivor Cookbook. Kosher, Dairy. Read More

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The Levin Family—Polish Ashkenazi Food and Traditions (Part 2)

The Shiksa in the Kitchen explores Jewish food history in an old family memoir belonging to an Ashkenazi family from the Pinsk region of Poland. Read More

The Levin Family in 1945 - back (left to right): Zalman, Yaffa, Aizik, Sara, Bella, Yankalla, Dov; front: Tzvi, Arieh, Safta Esther Malca holding Shlomo, Sabba Yitzhak

Uncle Dov’s Memoir: Polish Ashkenazi Food and Traditions (Part 1)

The Shiksa in the Kitchen explores Jewish food history in an old family memoir belonging to an Ashkenazi family from the Pinsk region of Poland. Read More