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A newsletter by Joel Hart exploring cooking, nostalgia, identity and becoming through the lens of Ashkenazi-Jewish food.

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Urban anthropologist, writer, and freelance food, drinks & culture journalist. Based in Northeast London, but somewhat peripatetic.

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