EATING OUR FEELINGS
Lisa Schroeder: Kishka and Gravy by COREY MINTZ
“BEING IN EXILE,” says Philadelphia-born Lisa Schroeder, owner of Mother’s Bistro in Portland, Oregon, “I really feel at home when I’m on the East Coast in a Jewish deli.” As soon as Schroeder uses those words, I know exactly what she means. She lives in a city of two and a half million people where you can find pretty much any food you’re looking for. But the taste of home can never entirely travel. I know the feeling, having moved from Toronto, where I had lived for so long that it didn’t occur to me to notice I was surrounded by Jews, to a neighbourhood in Winnipeg, where hosting a Hanukkah party for our daughter’s friends marks us as ethnic. There’s a unique type of homesickness you feel only when you’re far from your people.
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FOOD/PROP STYLING/PHOTOGRAPHY MARISA CURATOLO
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