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Feb
My Grandma Jessie modeling as an office girl for True Story magazine in the 1920s

Waste Not, Want Not: Grandma Jessie's Secret Ingredient

Food and stories: in the case of my old Jewish relatives, it's impossible to separate the two.
5 min read
11
Jan
Bread from Ashes

Bread from Ashes

I was born in Misrata, a city on the Mediterranean coast of Libya, but I took my first steps in Tripoli where I grew up and spent most of my life. From an early age I was bilingual, speaking Arabic and Tamasheq, the Tuareg language. The two languages embody vastly different ways of being...
4 min read