When my friend Penny from Boca Raton e-mailed yesterday and asked me to watch "A Taste of America" on the Travel channel tonight at 8 PM, I had no idea she would feature prominently in a matzoh ball cook-off, or that her rival would be the daughter-in-law of one of my college classmates.
Two degrees of separation...or two matzoh balls.
The daughter-in-law, whose husband is the rabbi of the beautiful Boca Raton Synagogue, made her matzoh balls from scratch. Penny--gasp!--used a mix.
The judges--among them was the rabbi-- sampled matzoh balls identified only by letters.
Who said rabbis aren't brave?
And the winner?
Check it out for yourself tonight at 11 PM on the Travel channel (Channel 75, if you have Comcast), or at 5 PM this Friday.
"A bad matzoh ball makes a good paperweight."
Or a doorstop...
Posted by: Rochelle | September 01, 2005 at 12:05 PM
And I quote from "The Optimist Sees the Bagel, the Pessimist sees the Hole." (Life's Little Jewish Instruction Book) by Leonard Sorcher :
A bad matzoh ball makes a good paperweight.
Posted by: Pearl | September 01, 2005 at 11:44 AM
Any idea if I can watch it online? We just made aliyah...and no TV yet... and no idea if we even get the Travel Channel.
--- Annette Friedman (previously from Boca Raton)
Posted by: Annette Friedman | September 01, 2005 at 11:31 AM