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August 10, 2017

What People Ate in the Shtetl

Sunday—potatoes, Monday—potatoes . . .

For most East European Jews in the early 20th century, dishes like noodle kugel, pickled herring, and stuffed breast of veal —well remembered by their descendants—were foods for special occasions. Paul Glasser explains that most days they had to make do with plainer fare:

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