by Wex | Mar 5, 2012 | Daybooks of Dyspepsia
With Purim almost here, it’s time for me to recall the observations about homentashn that I made a few years ago in Just Say Nu. In writing about certain types of Yiddish slang, I remarked that pirge (think “perogie”) and knish (think beef) can both...
by Wex | Feb 27, 2012 | Daybooks of Dyspepsia
If you don’t believe that brains are strictly a special-order item in Toronto these days, just take a look at our mayor. I haven’t been able to find a single retail butcher who stocks them on a regular basis (though I have to admit that I haven’t yet...
by Wex | Feb 20, 2012 | Daybooks of Dyspepsia
Don’t ask me how I ended up doing all this Yiddish; I started out as a hipster, the first kid on the block to have a Davy Crockett hat: my parents cut off the tail, used it to sweep up chometz on the night before Pesach, and called what was left a kinder-spodek....
by Marilla | Feb 19, 2012 | Daybooks of Dyspepsia, News
We didn’t want to tell you about this until we got the cheque. Wex is writing a book about Jewish food for Scribner. He’s hoping that Mrs. Wex will cook him some of the extraordinary things he is discovering during his research. Mrs. Wex is a little...
by Wex | Jan 3, 2012 | The Forward
Here’s a link to Jon Kalish’s audio report on the memorial service for Adrienne Cooper that was held on January 1st in New York. It’s a nice combination of excerpts from the official program of song and eulogy with less formal interviews with a few...
by Marilla | Nov 10, 2011 | Tablet
Only Michael Wex could daven next to a guy U.S. government investigators allege to be the ringleader of “one of the largest immigration fraud schemes to have ever been committed in our country.” This news comes on the back of police being called to the Markham Street...
