Jewish Food Talk

Looking back on the symphony space food talk I can say I appreciate the event more now than when I was in the actual talk. I enjoyed the conversation and learning about some history associated withJewish food, but like many of my classmates I wish the speakers would have talked more about the actual dishes and their significance in Jewish culture. But reflecting back I can understand why the speakers didn’t automatically talk about that, or directly shifted their focus to typical Jewish food because it’s getting harder to classify something as “Jewish” food, or any other cultural food for example. At one point in the conversation the speakers stated that bagels were stereotypical jewish food and Natalie who was next to me kept saying “no, no they’re not, what is she saying?” and once we got back to class everyone who was Jewish had something to say about how it Jewish food was a bit misrepresented. I always understood someone saying they’re Jewish as being in the same context as someone saying they’re a Catholic and never understood it is a culture and not just a religion. But through the input of my classmates and the Jewish food talk I now understand a lot more about the Jewish culture.