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Recipe Roots: Vancouver > Ventura, California > San Francisco Growing up in 1980s California, Evan Bloom’s idea of Jewish food wasn’t limited to the Ashkenazi culinary canon of his family’s roots. There was brisket on the family table, of course, kugel, matzo brei, and trips to delis in Los Angeles that seeded his love of pastrami and rye. But the idea of Jewish flavors and dishes extended beyond the common canon. “Salmon is just as Jewish to me,” Evan, who co-owns Wise Sons explains. “My mom was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, where salmon is, er, king. We...

Article content “Hanukkah is a natural holiday for a pandemic, really. Potatoes at home,” says writer Rachel Levin, laughing. “It is peasant food after all,” adds chef Evan Bloom, CEO and co-founder of Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen in San Francisco. In their cookbook, Eat Something (Chronicle Books, 2020), Bloom and Levin chart life’s main events, “from bris to shivah, and every meaningful and makeshift occasion in-between.” In the Hanukkah chapter, latkes dominate with kimchi, waffle-iron and masala variations, suggestions for a latke bar — “like a sundae bar, with all the...

>> eat something. >> i can't. i got to lose ten pounds by 8:30. >> reporter: she played the funny, imperfect pal to america's sweetheart, mary richards. it was a part that would quickly launch her career as an actress. she won three. ies -- three emmys before leaving the show in 1974 to star in the spinoff, "rhoda." >> my name is rhoda morgenstern, i was born in the bronx, network, in september -- >> reporter: her portrayal earned her an emmy and golden globe before new england 1978. that year also brought an end to her first marriage to actor richard shaw. she married her second husband, tony...

Away, she was 80 years old. her family says that she died friday after a long battle with cancer. harper was known for playing rhoda morgenstern on the mary tyler moore show and the spinoff of rhoda. stephanie elam has this report for you. >> reporter: she was the girl upstairs, the best friend. as rhoda morgenstern, the unforgettable sidekick in the mary tyler moore show. born in 1939, she grew up studying ballet and started out as a dancer on broad way. but it was in los angeles where she was discovered by a casting agent. harper was asked to audition for the role as the single girl from new...