Submitted by Gary Goldberg Growing up 68 years ago in Greater Hartford, we knew that when Bubbe was cooking it was a very special occasion. Sunday mornings meant a trip to Mayron’s Bakery and some challah, unseeded rye, bagels and bialys…and sometimes wonderful danish. Then it was a trip overRead More →
Submitted by Barbara Gordon I loved to watch my mother cook and bake – but apparently I missed one thing! My first time roasting a whole chicken when I first got married was a total disaster. I forgot to take the plastic bag of gizzards, liver, and neck out ofRead More →
Susan Juster Viner Jewish holidays were celebrated at the home of my Bubby and Zede, who, like my parents and me, lived in the North End of Hartford. They had both emigrated from Romania via Palestine as a young married couple around 1900, and the Eastern European trait of theRead More →
Submitted by Larry Seth Steinberg My bonafides… (The secret Hartford handshakes…) The Sheintops [Zayde Benny, Bubbe Gussie, and the three girls… Lee (my Mother… Weaver ’37), Bert, and Gitty] lived at 197 Mather St (corner of Garden St). When my Father got back from the Pacific, they moved into 228Read More →