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Breakfast With Rashi

In this week’s “Tell Me,” Tablet Magazine’s illustrated question-and-answer column, we reconstruct a reader’s morning repast—and offer commentary on the proceedings

By Liana Finck|March 7, 2011 7:00 AM|18comments
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One double-espresso
Presumably, one double-espresso is equal to two single-espressos, but you only have to drink one. Why espresso at all? Is Linda a Europhile? A European, even? Maybe. I would also venture that she likes the ritual of espresso: the compact grounds, the smell of brewing coffee, the steam, even the loud noises. She does not mention milk or sugar, which leads me to believe either that she is one of the rare people who truly loves the taste of unadulterated black coffee, or that she does not like the taste of coffee and prefers espresso because there is less of it to drink.
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  • Emily

    This is very very stupid.

  • Anna

    I like the commentary you can click on! If Rashi only knew about digital comments!

  • liana

    what’s stupid? no literally. i never learned that word.

  • Alana Newhouse

    Me neither.

  • http://adderabbi.blogspot.com Elli

    Why Rashi? Why not Tosafot, or the Gemara on the Mishna? Or any of the other Jewish commentaries and supercommentaries down through the centuries? Is “Rashi” just a cool, Jewish way of saying “commentary,” or “long-winded commentary on something essentially banal and trivial”? In either case, I submit that the author might benefit from actually studying Rashi’s works.

    If this comment inadvertently comes off as “Rashi” on Emily’s comment above, well, that can’t be helped.

  • http://harrietfinck.com Arnon

    This master artist/writer has clearly studied her Rashi, and is probably also aware of his day job. Brava!

  • Emily

    Which of Rashi’s “day jobs” (vintner, Rosh Yeshiva, or member of the beit din) would have made him a logical commentator on the minute, boring and irrelevant breakfasting habits of a random 20th century individual?

  • liana

    All of them.

  • liana

    remember what he says about cucumbers?

  • liana

    elli, yeah, i did not want this to be tooo obscure. i got broken up with again over this. a nonjew. agreed with emily.

  • liana

    so there is justice in the world.

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    I thought this was very clever and funny. Also it would be good if people really did discuss Rashi at breakfast…..

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  • Linda Pilgrim

    I LOVE THIS. I must not have discovered it until a few years after it was published. I had forgotten I replied to your question. But, when I read the details of my breakfast, I could not deny. In fact, I still eat this for breakfast or an afternoon snack, today.
    Thank you, not only for entertaining me, but also for your valuable insight. Who knew you could read “breakfast” as a psychic reads tea leaves? [Oh, except, I'm not married to a character from graphic novel character--phew!]

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Breakfast With Rashi

In this week’s “Tell Me,” Tablet Magazine’s illustrated question-and-answer column, we reconstruct a reader’s morning repast—and offer commentary on the proceedings