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Paper Plans

In the second installment of “Tell Mitzi,” Tablet Magazine’s illustrated question-and-answer column, Mitzi learns about New Year’s resolutions—and that sometimes there can be too much of a good thing

By Liana Finck|January 17, 2011 7:00 AM|17comments
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Liana Finck is a poet and graphic novelist.
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  • http://harrietfinck.com Harriet

    what is the question?

  • liana

    What’s your favorite smell? What’s your favorite Jewish smell? Why?

  • liana

    answer here, in public, or write to tellmitzi@tablet.com

  • liana

    *tellmitzi@tabletmag.com -sorry-

  • http://harrietfinck.com Harriet

    Grandma’s chicken fricasee, hands down It cooked for hours Permeated the house Sorry, vegetarians out there We’re talking Jewish!

  • http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/54596/introducing-mitzi/4/ Jordan

    I love the scent of banana oil in women’s nail polish. Alas, neither I nor my wife uses it.
    I’m a chocoholic so that will always get me.
    More to the point…brisket.

    I actually found it jarring that frames 2-4 were so consistent. I have come to expect that each frame would be radically different. Good! You kept me on my toes.

    Was Picasso’s horse so angry looking? Hmmm.

  • Debbie

    Old books.

  • Dina

    Hanukah candles. At the end, when they are burning out.

  • http://www.tabletmag.com/author/mingall/ marjorie

    tasty, tasty dozing milk-drunk baby.

  • Barbara

    Coffee brewing as you walk in the door for break the fast (and of course the bagels and lox that goes with it).

  • liana

    these are beautiful…we just switched the question though, sorry. it’s about funny nightmares. it’s posted on ‘the scroll’ part of Tablet. i always have a flash of jewishness when i smell instant coffee…memories of sneaking it at kiddush when i was a kid.

  • liana

    if picasso had a horse, i bet it would have been really really angry. debbie, old books are my favorite smell too. why don’t new books get scented that way?

  • liana

    this blog is scented though…just scratch n’ sniff. Tablet is not responsible for screen damage.

  • liana

    does anyone else like the smell of a dog’s feet?

  • Katherine

    No, I think sometimes one-a-day things are the hardest — like, I’m supposed to take this tiny pink pill every day. So, I put it on the top of my dresser to remember…and I wake up and look at it and think, did I take it already? I have these ways of tricking myself to remember… like always take the pill when I put on my underwear cause I figure, I’d never forget to do that, right? But still sometimes 10 minutes later I think, did I take it? (Life is very unreal at 5:45 in the morning in San Francisco.)

  • Barbara Rascoff

    I love the smell of cooking as I come home and enter my side door and I am always surprised that the air outside can know what is cooking inside. I don’t even have to scratch to sniff. WOW its like a forshbeis???

  • http://, Sarah S

    Hi Everyone, First time poster and looking forward to being a part of the discussion

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Paper Plans

In the second installment of “Tell Mitzi,” Tablet Magazine’s illustrated question-and-answer column, Mitzi learns about New Year’s resolutions—and that sometimes there can be too much of a good thing