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Jews & Thanksgiving
Guest: Dr. Beth S. Wenger I decided to push the envelope a bit on this Thanksgiving holiday episode. I knew everyone would be stressed with holiday plans, menus and figuring out ways to celebrate the holiday despite all the compromises to put in place to be safe. I...
Beth Schenker, Host & Executive Producer
The Big Schmear conversations are with prominent chefs, musicians, authors, visual artists and more talking about their passion for Jewish life.
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Stephanie Goldfarb: Chicago Cook Extraordinaire Part 2 (#10)
Guest: Stephanie Goldfarb It's Part 2 with Stephanie Goldfarb and we cover lots of ground. You'll hear about her day job working with amazing high school students, and lots more about food as we learn about Stephanie's must haves in the kitchen, what it's like to be...
Stephanie Goldfarb: Chicago Cook Extraordinaire Part 1 (#9)
Guest: Stephanie Goldfarb Stephanie Goldfarb is a real Renaissance woman finding a way to mesh her passion for food and living a Jewish life in the most extraordinary way. She shares her path to Jewish cooking with me and talks about her wonderful supper club in...
Liz Alpern of The Gefilteria talks Gefilte Fish and More! (#8)
Guest: Liz Alpern Beth meets up with Liz Alpern of The Gefilteria at a fantastic food demo in Detroit, Michigan. It's part of the 2nd Annual Michigan Jewish Food Festival. The conversation with Liz covers lots about food pivots, her path to becoming a foodie and...
The 2nd Annual Michigan Jewish Food Festival 007 (#7)
Guest: Hazon Beth goes to Detroit, Michigan to check-out the 2nd Annual Michigan Jewish Food Festival. The festival is put on by Hazon. The word Hazon means vision. Hazon is an entry point and ongoing resource for individuals and institutions to engage in Jewish...
Traveling through Jewish Food History with Joan Nathan, Continued (#6)
Guest: Joan Nathan Award winning cookbook author Joan Nathan is back to share some food stories with Beth from her new cookbook King Solomon's Table. They talk about blueberries and the discovery of a Toronto recipe that had its roots in Poland, Yemenite Shabbat...
Traveling through Jewish Food History with Joan Nathan
Episode 5 Guest: Joan Nathan Traveling through Jewish Food History with Joan Nathan Award winning cookbook author Joan Nathan joins Beth to talk about her path to Jewish food writing with roots in anthropology and Israel. She shares stories about her travels...
The Breakfast Queen, Continued (#4)
Guest: Ina Pinkney In this episode, Ina talks about her favorite Jewish foods, including some that are her own guilty pleasures and some that found their way into her restaurant. She also shares what she considers to be absolute necessities to have in her own...
The Breakfast Queen (#3)
Guest: Ina Pinkney In this episode of The Big Schmear we meet Ina Pinkney, an amazing entrepreneur and restaurant owner, from her first flourless chocolate cake delivery service to the opening of her iconic breakfast eatery in Chicago. Ina’s made breakfast an entirely...
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