Five Boro Food Talk

Honestly I found the five boro food talk to be interesting in a confusing way. I had hoped that the panel would be discussing and explaining the history of certain jewish foods, but listening to the panel talk, and not knowing much about jewish food, I got lost listening to the panel talk. Although it was enjoyable to be in a small panel room and sit so close to the people talking, not really knowing so much about the history was not so enjoyable. After going to class and hearing what other’s who were jewish had to say about the talk, it made it seem that the panel was not very good at talking about jewish food. The panel did seem too focused on the discussion on gefilte fish, zabar’s, and bagels and was unable to bring enough of a focus onto other topics. I probably would have liked the talk more if the talk didn’t assume everyone knew jewish food to start with, although in their defense most of the people who went were indeed jewish, the discussion should have been a more, in general discussion, instead of putting such a narrow focus on the large diversity found in jewish food.

I guess in the end I came to the talk expecting it to go one way, but was disappointed since I left the talk not knowing about much more jewish food then I had started with.