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Schwartz Is Busting Out All Over
Schwartz is busting out all over. No, my weight is under control - not losing really, but not gaining either. It's just that I am beginning to appear on other web sites.
Today, apropos the publication of "Jewish Home Cooking," I am featured in the Bergen (New Jersey) Record, on the front page of the feature section no less. Even if you don't live in northern New Jersey, you can read the story by Bill Pitcher and view the how-to photographs taken by Carmine Galasso of me making Passover latkes - matzo meal pancakes, also known in some Yiddish circles as chremslach. Go to the Bergen Record web site.
Last Thursday, I made my debut on a web site called The Three Tomatoes It's a site (and newsletter) for "Women Who Aren't Kids" and it is now featuring my recipes, reviews, and cogitations in a special space billed on the home page. You really should wander around the site, but if you want to look at my page directly, you can go to directly to The Food Maven at The Three Tomatoes.
Cheryl Benton, a former marketing and advertising executive, is all three of the tomatoes wrapped into one. The site is her baby. If you want to know if you are a tomato, too, go to "You Know You're a Tomato If ... " There are video and audio possibilities on The Three Tomatoes web site, too, so one day soon you may be hearing my voice there, too.
I am joined on The Three Tomatoes by Valerie Smaldone. I know you remember Valerie, she of the velvet voice, from her 24-year-run on radio 106.7, the light music station. At The Three Tomatoes, Valerie writes about New York night-life and events of interest to women who, in my words, "weren't born yesterday." By the way, although I have known Valerie's surname for many years, I didn't realize it was an Italian name, pronounced Smal - don (as in donation) - ay, until I started seeing the name on signs around southern Italy. Valerie's Salerno roots qualify her as a host on the new Italian-American Network on the internet. If you've never seen her but only heard her, take a gander. I love this web site. It has the most advanced video and audio I have yet seen, and it has all kinds of features relating to Italy and being Italian-American. Food is only one element.
Another site you will find me on - in full voice, not in writing -- is Robin Hood Radio. I am live on this Sharon, Connecticut radio station, 1020 on the AM dial, every Monday morning, from 7:40 to nearly 8, on the Marshall and Mike program. Soon after the live broadcast, my segment, a conversation with Marshall, who loves to eat and cook, is posted on the web site as a Podcast after 11 a.m., then archived. Right now there are four podcasts there.
A FEW REMINDERS
I am doing my Yiddish food lecture at the Adult School of Montclair on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
I'll be doing a demo and signing books at Chef Central, Paramus, on Thursday.
And I am lecturing again on Sunday evening at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.
Check my appearance scheduler on this site for details. Hope to see many of you this week. But there's always next week and the week after, too. Check that schedule.
