Welcome to
Modern
Balabusta’s Culinary Midrash Site
Culinary Midrash is a process much like traditional midrash. It involves the study and interpretation of Jewish text and the process of identifying meaning and symbols. Except those symbols and meaning are manifested as ingredients and textures and nutritional components. Connections are made between nutritional or aesthetic (taste, smell, texture) value and moral value. Sometimes the very process of the recipe represents an interpretation or meaning. Click here for more.
Culinary Midrash workshops are presented by
the Modern Balabusta herself, Jenni Person.
Workshops can be planned according to your needs – for large or small groups, 6 hours or 45 minutes, in a series or a one-shot-deal. Workshops can be designed for any age participant and in any kind of facility. For more information about the contents of workshops, please click here.
As the original Modern Balabusta, Jenni Person maintains a
vast and colorful resume.
For more information, please click here for her biography and a link to her resume.
Really need to see it in order to wrap your brain around it? Please click below for some samples:
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Beautiful/Butch/Balabusta (In honor of Judith)
Click here for rave reviews and recommendations.