COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLES
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Take A Musical Visit To The
Hundred Acre Wood
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What A Dish!
If you have a good imagination and
like reading and food, here's a project
you will enjoy.
First, select your favorite Jewish
book, or favorite Jewish character in
a book. Next, go through and find any
mention of a meal. (You might be sur-
prised how often food comes up in a
text.) Finally, it's time to figure out the
details.
Suppose you're reading about
somebody named David who loves his
mother's famous fruit kugel. First,
check the year the book was pub-
lished. Let's say it was 1956. The next
step is to visit your favorite used book
store, or local library, and see Jewish
cookbooks published in 1956, or
around that time. Chances are good
you'll find a recipe for fruit kugel,
which likely isn't too different from
what "David" ate.
You can plan a whole meal like this,
and do taste-testing with various
recipes. You might even want to have
a book-theme dinner, based on foods
from your favorite work. You could
even write your own cookbook.
To help get started, you can take a
look at one of these:
The Beatrix Potter Country Cookery
Book (Warne) by Margaret Lane
The Storybook Cookbook (Double-
day) by Carol MacGregor
The Louisa May Alcott Cookbook
(Little, Brown & Co.) by Gretchen An-
derson
starred as the first voice of
Tigger?
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s rice really nice?
Sometimes, as we find out
in this week's Food For
Thought, there's no definitive
answer.
Answers:
1) It reads, "Winnie the
Pooh lived in this enchanted
forest under the name of
Sanders. Which means that
he had the name over the
door in gold letters, and he
lived under it."
2) A.A. Milne's Winnie
the Pooh was published in
1926.
3) The wonderful things
about Tiggers, according to
Tigger himself, is, "I'm the
only one."
4) Paul Winchell, a pop-
ular ventriloquist of the
1950s whose pals includ-
ed "Knucklehead Smith,"
was the first voice of Tig-
ger.
Casbah Rice Pilaf certi-
fied Circle-K pareve
("An authentic Armenian pi-
laf Made from a blend of herbed
rice, orzo pasta, vegetables and
mild spices.")
—
Casbah Spanish Pilaf - cer-
tified Circle-K pareve
("An authentic Andalusian pi-
laf. Made from a flavorful blend
of rice, vegetables and zesty
spices.")
About the
Rice Pilaf
Consider This
S
uppose you were to
write a song about some
aspect of Jewish life.
What would it be like?
Would you write a happy
song, or would you focus on a
painful event, like the Holo-
caust? Would you compose a
rock, folk or operatic work?
What song do you think
most embodies, or best de-
scribes, the Jewish people to-
day?
BARO N/MEDIA
They're in love,
but what are they eating?
ou can sing along with
Winnie the Pooh and
Tigger Too in Walt Dis-
ney's new Winnie the
Pooh Sing-Along, which fea-
tures 12 songs from the Hun-
dred Acre Wood.
`The Wonderful Thing About
Tiggers," "Rumbly in My
Tumbly" and "Little Black Rain
Cloud" all are on the new al-
bum, which comes with a 22-
page songbook.
Meanwhile, here is a little
test to see how up-to-date you
are on your Pooh facts:
1)What does the sign above
Pooh's door say?
2) When was the first book
on Pooh published?
3) What is the most wonder-
ful thing about Tiggers?
4) What Jewish celebrity
Parsha Project
he coming week's
Torah portion, Exo-
dus 18:1-20:23, is
Yitro.
In this parsha, Moshe and
the Israelites arrive at Mount
Sinai. Moshe goes to the top
of the mountain, and God
transmits to him the Ten
Commandments, as well as
the rest of the Torah.
The Torah describes the
scene: Thunder and lightning
are all around, the mountain
is shaking and smoking, and
it is covered by a thick cloud;
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Food For
Thought
the sound of a shofar is age or carbonated water,
chilled
heard.
For a project: using a few
1. In the pitcher, dissolve
household ingredients, you
can make your own shaking sugar and soft drink in wa-
ice-cream mountain in a ter.
2. Put 1 or 2 scoops of ice
glass.
cream into each glass.
You will need:
3. To serve, stir the lemon-
a pitcher
lime carbonated beverage
1/2 cup sugar
1 envelope unsweetened into the soft-drink mixture.
Pour over ice cream in glass-
flavored drink mix
es.
1/2 cup cold water
Reprinted with permission
vanilla ice cream
from Temple Emanu-El
6 tall glasses
1 liter lemon-lime bever- Nursery School.
"It's very
nice, has a nice
chicken flavor."
— Associate
Editor Alan
Hitsky
"It's sort of
bland. If I
wanted just
plain rice, I
would make
just plain rice." — Editorial As-
sistant Seymour Manello
"Forks down. It has a bad af-
tertaste." — Staff Writer Jen-
nifer Finer
"It's very mild. If somebody
served it to me I would eat it, but
I'm certainly not going to go to
the store and buy it." — Dena
Jacobs, from the accounting de-
partment
About the Spanish Pilaf
"It reminds me a little of ham-
burger. I'm not happy with it."
— Alan Hitsky
"Nothing special, but at least
it has some flavor." — Seymour
Manello
"Forks up." — Jennifer Finer
"It has a little flavor, but not
enough. It has a good consis-
tency, though, nothing too chewy
or crunchy. It doesn't taste like
there's any-
thing too
strange in
here." —
Dena Jacobs
"I like this
one better. I
felt that the
flavor of
chicken broth
was too
strong in the
white-rice
dish." — Staff Writer Julie
Edgar
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