Past Events:

Open Sources

April 9, 2013
7:00-9:00 pm
639 14th Avenue
San Francisco, CA

Join Jewish LearningWorks, Kevah and Lerhaus Judaica for an evening of learning with adults from all denominations, knowledge backgrounds and observance. Take part in a class with a Bay Area educator or study with a partner from an array of texts. Interested in food and the bible? Utilize the Beyond Bubbie source sheet and get some food for thought.

Freedom Art Jam: Art and Dance Party for Passover
March 31, 2013
Noon – 4:00 pm
The Jewish Museum
New York, NY

Baby Loves Disco. Passover Pop Art. Freedom Mural and Beyond Bubbie. Sounds like an awesome kids’ party. Join Bubbie in remembering your favorite recipes and stories. Love your Bubbie’s matzo ball soup? Create your own heaping bowl-ful using yarn and other materials. Create recipe cards to share yummy food memories. Free with Museum admission. Ages 3 and up.

Cooking Jewish: Passover Made Easy with Dawn Kepler
March 14, 2013
9:30 am – 11:00 am
The Osher Marin JCC
San Rafael, CA

Not everyone who holds a seder grew up with Passover traditions. Dawn Kepler will share tasty Passover recipes, shortcuts and tips for engaging children and spouses of all ages in the holiday.

Beyond Bubbie: Tales from the Kitchen
March 18, 2013
7 pm
Ministry of Stories
London

What happens when you mix savoury storytelling and nectarous nosh with a splash of schnapps? An evening of performances dedicated to food, family recipes and the stories that link them together.

Come and join us as the stories overflow. Raconteurs will include Jay Rayner (Food Critic, The Observer); Singer-Songwriter Ana Silvera; Itamar Sruolvich (Owner, Honey & Co) Edd Kimber, the Boy who Bakes and food artist, Caroline Hobkinson (Stirring with Knives). Each of our guests will share a story about food, family or something that connects the two.

All profits raised from Beyond Bubbie will be donated to The Ministry of Stories, a wonderful non-profit creative writing centre in Hoxton, East London co-founded by Nick Hornby, Lucy Macnab and Ben Payne that helps local children and young people develop their writing www.ministryofstories.org

Tickets are £10 in advance or £12 on the door.

The Beyond Bubbie Project is powered by Reboot
With thanks to The Meringue Girls and others for foodie treats

Beyond Bubbie: Tales from the Kitchen
January 16, 2013
92Y Tribeca
New York

What happens when you mix savory storytelling and delish dishes with a splash of schnapps? A performance dedicated to food, family recipes, and the stories that link them together. Join MC David Sax (Save the Deli) as the stories overflow like your Bubbie’s boiling chicken soup. Raconteurs include Mo Rocca (My Grandmother’s Ravioli, CBS Sunday Morning & Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!), Carla Hall (The Chew, Top Chef & Cooking with Love), Joan Nathan (New York Times Contributor and cookbook author), Jack Dell (Katz’s Deli) & others. Want to join in on the show? Share a one-minute story with writetobubbie@gmail.com and you could be chosen to dish out your culinary guru’s story.

Beyond Bubbie: A Night of Stories, Memories, and Food
January 24, 2013
Contemporary Jewish Museum
San Francisco

Imagine a mash-up of grandma’s recipe box and an episode of Iron Chef. Throw in a handful of storytelling, a bit of nosh and a splash of wine and you’ll get an evening dedicated to food, family recipes, and the stories that link them together.  Evening includes the “Iron Bubbie Cook-Off” with Wise Son’s Deli’s Leo Beckerman teaming up with comedian Lynn Ruth Miller to compete against Evan Bloom and his mother Linda Bloom. Sommelier Amy Goldberger teams up with comedian Caitlin Gill in the “Sommelier and the Whiner.” Bi-Rite purveyor Sam Mogannam interviews his mom about food and memory. Additional storytelling and recipes by The Kitchen Sisters of NPR, Karen Leibowitz of Mission Street Food and more.

Cooking Jewish: Baking & Braiding Challah
January 17, 2013
9:30-11:00 am
The Osher Marin JCC
San Rafael, CA

Chana Scop, a longtime teacher of gourmet kosher cooking classes, will share the mitzvah of making challah and braiding techniques. You’ll take home challahs to share—just in time for Shabbat.

Who’s Your Bubbie? Reflect. Share. Eat.

November 13, 2012, 7 pm
Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles

Join Pulitzer Prize winning LA Times Food Critic Jonathan Gold, Cooks County Owner/Chef Roxana Jullapat, James Beard Award winner David Sax & Micah Wexler of Mezze with Evan Kleiman of KCRW’s Good Food. Throw in a handful of storytelling, a tasty nosh, and a splash of wine and you’ll get an evening dedicated to food, family recipes and the stories that link them together.

Co-sponsored by Reboot and IKAR

Bubbie Talk: Stories, Memories and Recipes
December 6, 2012
Hazon Food Conference
Isabella Freedman Retreat Center
Falls Village, Connecticut

“Add a cup of sugar.” “No, it was a half cup of sugar.” “That’s not how Bubbie made it.” Does a similar conversation happen in your kitchen? Join us to learn why and how you can preserve your most cherished foods. We will watch clips from Dishing Up the Past and share family recipes that touch on themes of identity and tradition. Bonus: You know Bubbie always has a little treat!

Beyond Bubbe
December 11, 2012, 7 pm
Sixth and I
Washington, D.C.

Join Not your Bubbe’s Sisterhood for Beyond Bubbe. In connection with the launch of beyondbubbie.com—Sixth & I’s Executive Director, Esther Safran Foer, and Suzanne Stutman, a practicing psychotherapist and mom to Sixth & I’s Rabbi Shira, share stories about food and family, being career-minded bubbes, the evolution of what it means to be a “bubbe,” and what they wish they’d known when they were younger. The convo will continue with talk of all things bubbe—her impact, her inspiration, and her secret recipes.

Cooking Jewish: The Secrets of Matzah Ball Soup with Chef Jeff & Rabbi Lezak
December 11, 2012, 9:30-11:00 am
The Osher Marin JCC
San Rafael, CA

Chicken soup—a.k.a. “Jewish Penicillin”—is perhaps the most iconic of Jewish dishes. Learn how to cook up the perfect pot and to make light-as-a-feather matzo balls with Chef Jeff Kirshbaum, head chef of the Mitzvah Kitchen, and his class sous chef, the always inspiring and entertaining Rabbi Michael Lezak of Congregation Rodef Sholom.