the Industrial Removal Office

In the early 1900’s large amounts of Romanian Jews fled to New York. The Rumanian Committee was organized in New York City as a result of this. The Committee’s aim was to help relocate the immigrants to other cities and help them find employment. The Rumanian Committee soon became the Industrial Removal Office (IRO), under […]

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Challah in a Cast Iron Skillet on the Grill

I’ve scratch-made challah for decades. Over the winter I came across a recipe on food52.com for making challah in a cast iron skillet on the grill. Challah in a cast iron skillet was intriguing; doing it on the grill was just too tempting. Unfortunately it was winter and a bit too chilly for grillin’ so […]

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Where’s my little guy?

We are soon to embark on a journey into a subculture of human society – in July we are taking delivery of a tear drop trailer. We’ve got the trailer on order and have been planning for the maiden voyage since. My sunroom currently looks like a camp store, with a couple of trunks of […]

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