Bread and Salt
Homemade pretzels as housewarming gifts, and other topics in modern Jewish eating
| 7:00 AM Jun 11, 2009
Whenever I need a housewarming gift, I go to my local farmer’s market for two dozen crackling, salt-encrusted, handmade pretzels. It is my riff on a medieval custom still observed by Russians, Eastern Europeans, some Middle Easterners, and the Jews whose ancestors lived among them: bread and salt comprise the proper gift for anyone in ...
