Comments for Dan Zevin http://danzevin.com Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:06:27 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Revised New Year’s Resolutions by linda zevin http://danzevin.com/2012/01/revised-new-years-resolutions-5/#comment-29 linda zevin Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:06:27 +0000 http://danzevin.com/?p=610#comment-29 sounds to me like you are turning into your mother! very funny! sounds to me like you are turning into your mother! very funny!

]]> Comment on How I Learned to Love the Latke by dan http://danzevin.com/2011/12/how-i-learned-to-love-the-latke/#comment-28 dan Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:56:42 +0000 http://danzevin.com/?p=410#comment-28 Nice to write it for you! Thanks. Nice to write it for you! Thanks.

]]> Comment on Why It’s Wrong For Jews to Have Christmas Trees by dan http://danzevin.com/2011/12/why-its-wrong-for-jews-to-have-christmas-trees/#comment-26 dan Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:55:22 +0000 http://danzevin.com/?p=422#comment-26 We put the bath mat down instead, if you must know. Thanks for writing! We put the bath mat down instead, if you must know. Thanks for writing!

]]> Comment on Why It’s Wrong For Jews to Have Christmas Trees by dan http://danzevin.com/2011/12/why-its-wrong-for-jews-to-have-christmas-trees/#comment-25 dan Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:54:38 +0000 http://danzevin.com/?p=422#comment-25 Thanks, Jayne. I'm sure you were jealous that Bebe got to celebrate Yom Kippur, though. Thanks, Jayne. I’m sure you were jealous that Bebe got to celebrate Yom Kippur, though.

]]> Comment on Why It’s Wrong For Jews to Have Christmas Trees by Jayne http://danzevin.com/2011/12/why-its-wrong-for-jews-to-have-christmas-trees/#comment-24 Jayne Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:01:07 +0000 http://danzevin.com/?p=422#comment-24 Dan, I think you are just the funniest! Thanks for the laughs. Reminds me of Bebe being jealous that I got to celebrate Christmas and she didn't! Good stuff. Dan,

I think you are just the funniest! Thanks for the laughs. Reminds me of Bebe being jealous that I got to celebrate Christmas and she didn’t!

Good stuff.

]]> Comment on How I Learned to Love the Latke by dan http://danzevin.com/2011/12/how-i-learned-to-love-the-latke/#comment-22 dan Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:26:24 +0000 http://danzevin.com/?p=410#comment-22 I am really hungry now that I've finished reading your comment, Ronald. The bathtub-marinated eels I could live without. But oy vey, sign me up for the home-made wine, unknown nuts, and lasagna. Fresh ham? I'm on the fence. Thanks for writing, and send recipes next time! I am really hungry now that I’ve finished reading your comment, Ronald. The bathtub-marinated eels I could live without. But oy vey, sign me up for the home-made wine, unknown nuts, and lasagna. Fresh ham? I’m on the fence. Thanks for writing, and send recipes next time!

]]> Comment on How I Learned to Love the Latke by dan http://danzevin.com/2011/12/how-i-learned-to-love-the-latke/#comment-21 dan Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:22:48 +0000 http://danzevin.com/?p=410#comment-21 Thanks, Jenna. You are clearly a very good friend. Thanks for writing. Thanks, Jenna. You are clearly a very good friend. Thanks for writing.

]]> Comment on How I Learned to Love the Latke by Jenna Carodiskey-Wie http://danzevin.com/2011/12/how-i-learned-to-love-the-latke/#comment-20 Jenna Carodiskey-Wie Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:27:30 +0000 http://danzevin.com/?p=410#comment-20 Every year I make latkes for my best friend , who is Jewish and has no family here. (In part because her only son, who goes to Brandeis, cannot be bothered to come home and spend winter break with his mother, and if I didn't make her latkes she would spend all of Hanukkah alone, in the dark, eating leftover Chinese.) I ADORE them and I do grate them by hand, which seriously impresses my friend. Every year I make latkes for my best friend , who is Jewish and has no family here. (In part because her only son, who goes to Brandeis, cannot be bothered to come home and spend winter break with his mother, and if I didn’t make her latkes she would spend all of Hanukkah alone, in the dark, eating leftover Chinese.) I ADORE them and I do grate them by hand, which seriously impresses my friend.

]]> Comment on How I Learned to Love the Latke by Ronald Keeperman http://danzevin.com/2011/12/how-i-learned-to-love-the-latke/#comment-19 Ronald Keeperman Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:00:02 +0000 http://danzevin.com/?p=410#comment-19 As a non-practicing Jewish kid raised by a die-hard atheist Russian father and a more liberal German agnostic mother, I ate Chinese Food every Friday night for the first 21 years of my life, at which time I married an Italian non-practicing Catholic and ate Chinese Food every single night of the year <i>except</i> Christmas Eve and Christmas when I chowed down instead on my practicing Italian Catholic mother-in-law's death-defying feasts of hot and cold antipasto platters, bathtub-marinated eels, dried baccala, shrimp scampi over linguini, tons of assorted pastries, fruits, chestnuts and other known and unknown nuts, all washed down with gallons of home-made wine, and gallons of percolated coffee spiked and thinned with anisette. To help aid digestion after these Christmas Eve meals we grazed for hours afterward on a field full of something green that resembled celery leaves and was called alish. All of this served merely as a warm-up for the real dinner to come in a few hours on Christmas Day, when Lasagna, Turkey, and Fresh Ham would replace the ocean- and river-based items devoured the day and night before. What could eating Latkes possibly have to top those meals in the Ethnic Cardiac games? As a non-practicing Jewish kid raised by a die-hard atheist Russian father and a more liberal German agnostic mother, I ate Chinese Food every Friday night for the first 21 years of my life, at which time I married an Italian non-practicing Catholic and ate Chinese Food every single night of the year except Christmas Eve and Christmas when I chowed down instead on my practicing Italian Catholic mother-in-law’s death-defying feasts of hot and cold antipasto platters, bathtub-marinated eels, dried baccala, shrimp scampi over linguini, tons of assorted pastries, fruits, chestnuts and other known and unknown nuts, all washed down with gallons of home-made wine, and gallons of percolated coffee spiked and thinned with anisette. To help aid digestion after these Christmas Eve meals we grazed for hours afterward on a field full of something green that resembled celery leaves and was called alish. All of this served merely as a warm-up for the real dinner to come in a few hours on Christmas Day, when Lasagna, Turkey, and Fresh Ham would replace the ocean- and river-based items devoured the day and night before. What could eating Latkes possibly have to top those meals in the Ethnic Cardiac games?

]]> Comment on Why It’s Wrong For Jews to Have Christmas Trees by Linda http://danzevin.com/2011/12/why-its-wrong-for-jews-to-have-christmas-trees/#comment-18 Linda Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:42:03 +0000 http://danzevin.com/?p=422#comment-18 Very,very,very funny story. Did the inlaws mind a rugless floor? Very,very,very funny story. Did the inlaws mind a rugless floor?

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