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want? Who will send me marigold
"I see the world through my senses,"
seeds this spring?"
she says.
As the story ends, Pearl and her
Not only the visions, but also the
father plant marigolds together, and
smells and tastes remain: the aroma
Pearl promises that when she has
inside the sukkah at night, and every-
grandchildren, "I'll buy a shovel and
thing — absolutely everything — about
plant giant orange marigold seeds for
Pesach.
my grandchildren. After we've planted
"It's my favorite holiday," she says. "I
the seeds, I'll let them pick the red
love that Passover feeling; it's so spiritual
checkers, and win, and read stories
and glorious. I love the home cooking,
way past their bedtimes. Just like
the special dishes."
Grandpa."
She adds: "I like the rituals: asking the
Pearl's Marigoldsfir Grandpa is a
questions and the discussion and the
favorite with her readers, but it was diffi- jokes and the banter."
cult for Zalben to write. "It took me 10
This year, as always, she will prepare
years," she says,
what she calls a
during which
"Martha Stewart
time her father
seder" on the fami-
and father-in-
ly sun porch.
law died. She
Without the assis-
dedicated the
tance of hired help
book to them
("I can't imagine
both.
that," she says),
Sometimes,
she'll dust, scrub,
her books fea-
sweep and organ-
ture recipes,
ize. She will open
which Zalben
all the screens and
and her family
fill her home with
have tested in
flowers.
their very own
"I love the way
kitchen at
the sun comes
home in New
through the glass-
York — a
ware
on the table,"
. .a
kitchen that
she says.
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doubles as
And the smell of
JANE BRESKIN
Zalben's studio.
charoset reminds
"I'm very
her of her job at
disciplined," she says.
the seders of her childhood — chopping
This was a trait learned by working
the nuts for that tasty ceremonial dish'.
while raising two boys, and making
Zalben, who admires the work of
certain family always came first. It's
Matisse, the writing of Elizabeth Berg
something few of her male colleagues
and everything by children's author-
likely have mastered. "I don't think
illustrator William Steig, says the best
any of the men in my writer's group
things in life are "my family. And I love
are really thinking of defrosting the
art and I like laughing." Music and writ-
lamb chops," she says.
ing rank quite close behind, she says.
Finding inspiration is never a prob-
These days, Zalben is "returning to my
lem. "I have too many projects going on
childhood, going back to being 3 and 5,
at once," she says. "My mind goes faster
trying to return to 'the Jane who was.'"
than I can produce. Inspiration is not
One of her first loves was poetry, and
the issue; the issue is time."
so she is writing a poetry book with her
In the kitchen, also home to the fami-
husband, Steven, an architect. Inspired
ly's pet bunny Zoe (it used to be her
by the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on
son's, she explains, but then he went to
America, this new book, Let There Be
college and the bunny stayed), Zalben
Light, will contain poems and prayers to
paints using a 000 brush, almost
help heal the world, she says. These will
unimaginably small, and always works
include not only works from Jewish tra-
to size. She paints on parchment, com-
ditions, but those from other religions
pleting her pictures with gold and silver
and cultures as well.
paint reminiscent of ancient Jewish reli-
She's also writing a novel, along with a
gious manuscripts.
former student.
Often, Zalben's own past becomes
"I feel like I'm experimenting more,
part of the book. She vaguely remem-
doing more collaborative kinds of
bers a synagogue she had gone to as a
things."
child, a very old-world kind of place,
It's more of a need than a choice, she
filled with wood. It's now featured in
says: "After 50 books, either you stag-
some of her stories.
nate or you reinvent."
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