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  • Archive for December 18th, 2007

    Fortune Cookie Christmas Ornaments! (And a Partridge in a Pear Tree)

    Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

    From Etsy (venue to buy and sell all things homemade), we get porcelain fortune cookies, a set of six ornaments for $30 or a set of 12 non-ornaments for $38, by Yogagoat, aka as Amanda Ryznar. As Yogagoat describes them: Six of my porcelain fortune cookies, wired for hanging on your holiday tree. The wires […]

    Sino-Judaic cuisine: pastrami eggrolls and Chinese hot dogs

    Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

    I have a City Room post today on pastrami eggrolls and Chinese hot dogs (beef frankfurter in egg roll skin), seen below, which is found in  New York City. This of course segues into the age-old quesiton of why Jews love Chinese food so much –  a relationship that has been the subject of many a […]