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The Yenta What
13 June 2005Schooled Her Sharlet: In a few weeks I head up to Boston to answer a few questions for WGBH, one of the flagship PBS affiliates. "What should the American people know about religion?" "What do they want to know about religion?" "What do you think would make an interesting program?" Well, I have lots of answers, but given that I'm responsible for helping to steer the course of public television -- the fate of the nation! -- I keep it broad, so to speak. My answer to all three queries: Food. What we eat is what we believe. Which is why I find the timing of my comrades at Killing the Buddha (at which I've been downgraded to "editor-at-large," because I am, in fact, large, and because I'm too busy Revealing to kill many Buddhas) so perfectly apt. They've finally published the recipe for "Jewish-style Mulligatawny Soup" I've been waiting for, courtesy of Abigail Pickus, who makes it tasty with a tale of the yenta what schooled her: "She was not fat exactly, but zaftig: a token of too many helpings of brisket and kugel..."
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