The Perfect Quince Jam: Trying to recreate a recipe that carries a history as broad as the Mediterranean, and as specific as my grandmother’s kitchen. tabletmag.com/sections/food/…

Hi! Starting in November I'm going to be teaching a 4 week seminar on screenwriting for Catapult. If you've ever thought that something would make an AMAZING movie or tv show, but don't know the first place to start, you should join me this fall! catapult.co/classes/4-week…

What is a job you’d want to have for only a month? What’s the least desirable vacation spot? What’s your impossible life? In this writing exercise by Alexander Aciman, you'll answer these questions to get started on creating your very own TV series! catapult.co/dont-write-alo…

A Mystery Baked Inside a Cake: My explosive mission to recreate the ‘pain d’espagne’ my grandfather once made, which I never got to eat. tabletmag.com/sections/food/…

I know twitter might be shattering, but I also wrote this essay on my grandfather and baking for Tablet Magazine, and it meant a lot to me that I got to write this. Also it was my first time baking a cake alone and my oven exploded in the process... tabletmag.com/sections/food/…

For Passover this year I wrote about my decade-long mission to recreate my great-grandmother's Charoset recipe for Tablet Magazine tabletmag.com/sections/holid…

I wrote a piece about figuring out the family recipe to these cheese biscuits, and completing my grandmother's lifelong quest to upstage her mother in law for Tablet Magazine. This meant a lot to me. tabletmag.com/sections/food/…

The Shape of Pastries Past: Trying to recreate my great-grandmother’s cheese-filled bollos, from Alex Aciman tabletmag.com/sections/food/…

I also got to publish this today on one of my absolute favorite TV shows of the last few years, The Bear for NYT Wirecutter The Bear nytimes.com/wirecutter/rev…

Here is every Wirecutter pick we could find in The Bear's first season. 🔪 wrctr.co/3PlY59e

"The Bear" gets even the smallest details of professional kitchens right. And it’s no surprise that a lot of the items that real and fictional chefs love are @Wirecutter picks (because they are the best!). nyti.ms/45qVcJ9

I wrote this thing about the ice cream maker from Gilmore Girls

I have been struggling to articulate the complex emotions I've been feeling since Saturday morning as a Jew, a liberal/progressive, a believer that Palestinians and Jews have a right to a homeland, to safety and dignity. A thread 1/

Can someone add the Curb Your Enthusiasm music to this clip so I can send it to my whole family?

I wrote this piece about Jewish pastries, Milwaukee, and my grandfather. I am lucky that I got to send it to my grandparents this morning. It's hard to explain how much it means to me that I got to write this. very grateful to Tablet Magazine for publishing it

Flaco, 2010-2024. My NYT tribute to Flaco: nytimes.com/2024/02/02/nyr… Flaco_the_Owl on Instagram: instagram.com/flaco_the_owl?…

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