Heritage 2.0

February 16, 2007 10:16 PM

Feed Me Bubbe
Why doesn't everyone do this with their grandmother? Avrom and his bubbe in a charming series about her great looking food. Learn a little yiddish while you're at it. O, yeah, there's videos here people...
posted by dozo (15 comments total)

I stumbled across this from a short clip found with the Democracy player.

I'm thinking of starting something like this with my southern grandma...
posted by dozo at 10:19 PM on February 16, 2007

bring it on - i'm getting hungry
posted by growabrain at 10:22 PM on February 16, 2007

I'm kind of dubious about the premise but any series that takes three episodes to do chicken soup is all right by me.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 10:58 PM on February 16, 2007

Why dubious about the premise? I think sharing your grandma's cooking is an incredible idea, and an awesome way to share time with your family.
posted by dozo at 11:04 PM on February 16, 2007

True, though sharing Grandma's medications is equal in its awesomeness.
posted by Item at 11:35 PM on February 16, 2007

Why doesn't everyone do this with their grandmother?

Because not everybody's grandmother is a good cook.

Or an even passably decent human being, for that matter.
posted by watsondog at 11:43 PM on February 16, 2007 [2 favorites has favorites]

Latke recipe with eggs? I will have to try that next time. Thanks. Latkes: the ultimate junk food.
posted by Listener at 1:22 AM on February 17, 2007

watsondog:

You forgot because they're dead.
posted by dozo at 3:30 AM on February 17, 2007

Oops, should be "because they're dead".
posted by dozo at 3:31 AM on February 17, 2007

Why doesn't everyone do this with their grandmother?

My Nan has a fantastic cooking technique - she sits at the counter telling my Grandad that he is a useless cook, is doing everything wrong, and shouldn't be allowed in a kitchen. Then she eats what he's cooked, and grudgingly admits that it's quite tasty. (How my Grandad has put up with this for half a century without loosing his mind, I don't know.)
posted by jack_mo at 4:26 AM on February 17, 2007

i like bubbes.
posted by quonsar at 4:31 AM on February 17, 2007

Listener, I'm confused, every latke recipe I have ever had, had egg in it. It's just that the egg taste isn't overwhelming, but it helps hold the tots together. Without eggs, it's just hashbrowns.
posted by piratebowling at 6:16 AM on February 17, 2007

latkes are cack without onions. lots and lots of onions. never enough onions, I say!

[this is gut]
posted by Busithoth at 9:03 AM on February 17, 2007

watsondog has a point about not every grandmother being a good cook. My grandma's beef stew and meatloaf are second to none, but we'll never let her live down the devil's food cake she once made for my father's birthday. She claimed she'd made it from scratch... until my dad found the empty Betty Crocker box in the trashcan.
posted by Faint of Butt at 10:54 AM on February 17, 2007

Mandel bread! My grandmother used to make that every time we came to visit. Ah, the memories...
posted by SisterHavana at 4:23 PM on February 17, 2007