Articles written by Rachel Gordin Barnett & Lyssa Kligman Harvey

Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey|Aug 18, 2023

(JTA) - We grew up in South Carolina in the late 1960s and '70s, one of us from the capital city, Columbia, and the other from the small town of Summerton. The foods served on our respective tables were a blend of Southern and Jewish, menus long ago established by our immigrant grandmothers and the African-American women who cooked for their families. Kashrut was observed in our grandmothers' kitchens, and Southern recipes recrafted for a kosher table mingled quite comfortably with the stuffed...