What Jew Want To Eat Analysis

For Jews, food is usually associated strongly with memories. Many of their favorite memories involve either helping their mom or grandma in the kitchen preparing food or surrounded by family and friends at an oversized table surrounded by all of their favorite dishes. For Jewish food blogger Amy Kritzer, this holds true.

“Baking rugelach with my Bubbe (Grandma) [is definitely my earliest and fondest memory of food],” she said. “We would roll out the dough together, fill it, roll the cookies, and then I would disappear when it was time to clean [up], but suddenly reappear when it was time to eat.”

These traditional Jewish cookies are often passed down from generation to generation. They are filled with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar, and either apricot or raspberry jam then sprinkled with raisins and walnuts, rolled up and baked into a golden brown dessert. For Kritzner they were just the beginning of her food journey.

“I was bored at my previous day job and wanted a creative outlet. I saw blogs about other types of cuisine, and wanted to share my love of Jewish food.”

Kritzer's blog, What Jew Wanna Eat, is one of around a dozen blogs that have popped up in the last decade in an effort to make Jewish cooking less intimidating for either Jews who have always relied on recipes passed down or for non-Jewish cooks who simply want to bring new cuisines into their homes.

Jewish food is not difficult to cook, Kritzner said, It’s just hard to define because it is always evolving as Jews live in different places and adapt traditions and symbolic foods to local flavors.

Since Jewish cuisine is always evolving, Kritzner is always finding new ways to mix up her food.

“I get new ideas all the time- from eating out, to trying new flavors, from readers,” she said. “My favorite is trying a new flavor in one recipe and thinking about how I can use that in my own