This story originally appeared on Nosher, 70 Faces Mediaâs Jewish food site
Jews have a lot of feelings about matzah balls: floaters or sinkers, seltzer or schmaltz. I love discussing with chefs and bubbes alike about how to make the best version of this iconic Jewish food.
There are some Jewish cooks who think homemade matzah balls arenât real unless you make them from scratch. And Iâve met others whoâve apologized for the fact that they use â almost whispered out of embarrassment âÂ
the box.
I am here to say loud and proud: Boxed matzah ball mix is actually the best. And I am far from the only one who thinks so â Iâve met countless chefs who agree. But itâs my grandfather, Edward (Grandpa Eddie) Sarna of blessed memory, who inspired my confidence in the blue box of mix. A food chemist by profession, my grandfather often declared there were just some things science had perfected: boxed brownie mix, onion soup mix, and matzah
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My dad has a funny story he tells about when he was a little boy living over the hill from his Grandpa Eddie. Eddie, a widower since his mid-30s, made the best homemade doughnuts, fried and cakey like the ones we get at the local Lutheran church fundraiser ever year. I always buy an extra dozen or so thinking I’ll freeze them for special occasions, but they never make it to the freezer.
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Having grandparents nearby is a special gift that I’m so grateful we’re able to give our children. I had it in some form or another growing up myself and I hold the memories of after school snacks, homemade bubbles, Popsicles on the porch and card games of Skip-Bo and Uno in the whimsical and comforting parts of my memory box.
There was no one else who thought we were as special or funny or talented or charming. No one else as willing to have us sit around their kitchen tables and tell our long-winded stories, or clap as enthusiastically for our saxophone concerts, spontaneous interpretive dances and living room plays.
The teen, not wanting to hurt her mother, told her the truth – sort of – by implying that “maybe it’s just a phase that she was going through. Yet, Carlysia knew in her heart-of-hearts that she loved women.
Actually, Carlene got a heads up about her daughter after Carlene’s sister saw social media photos of Carlysia and her then-girlfriend. Carlysia was attending Spelman College in Atlanta.
“My mom took it really hard in the beginning,” Carlysia said in an article at Iloveoldschool.com. “Then my grandpops Eddie found out and it unraveled from there.”
The word was that Grandpa Eddie wasn’t happy about his granddaughter’s sexual preference, but never told her so directly, according to Carlysia. Instead, Eddie expressed his feelings, privately, to Carlysia’s mother. Gerald Levert’s son, LeMicah, intervened in the matter, hoping to be a buffer that would convince his grandfather that Carlysia was still a good-hearted person and nothing should ch
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