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Tori Avey shares stories of her time spent with various culinary icons, fellow food bloggers, folks with fascinating family histories, Holocaust survivors, and more. Many of these posts feature recipes lovingly shared by the many people she has met during her ToriAvey.com journey.

Horizontal shot of a white plate holding a cup of tea and two pieces of mandel bread sitting on top of a blue cloth napkin.

Mary Goldberg’s Passover Mandel Bread

Richard Simmons' Beet Bowl Salad

Richard Simmons’ Beet Bowl Salad

Duff Goldman's Beef and Barley Soup

Duff Goldman’s Beef Barley Soup

Three Unorthodox Rugelach served on a fancy plate with the recipe on the side

Erika’s “Unorthodox” Rugelach

Lokshen mit Kaese - Jewish Noodles and Cheese

Jason Alexander, A New Musical, & Lokshen mit Kaese

Sephardic Meat Hand Pies sprinkled with sesame seeds stock on top of each other served in a fancy brown plate

Tilly’s Pastelles

Claudia Roden's Saffron Rice

Claudia Roden’s Riz au Saffran – Saffron Rice

Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup

Norene Gilletz’s Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup

Delicious Keftes de Prassa, fried chicken on table

Gil Marks’ Keftes de Prassa – Sephardic Leek Patties

Joan Naathan's Honey Orange Chicken

Joan Nathan’s Honey Orange Chicken

A slice of tiramisu cake with layers of coffee-soaked ladyfingers, creamy mascarpone cheese, and a dusting of cocoa powder

Michael Berkowits’ Tiramisu

Hungarian Beef Goulash on a sage green plate with fork on the right side.

Marha Pörkölt – Hungarian Beef Paprika Stew

Potato Bhajee - Vintage kosher Jewish Indian recipe from a 1922 cookbook called the Jewish Cookery Book. Pareve.

Potato Bhajee

A Vintage Jewish Cookbook from Calcutta, India - Tori Avey explores the history of Jews in India, and a kosher vintage Jewish cookbook published in Calcutta in 1922.

A Vintage Jewish Cookbook from Calcutta, India

Kourabiedes Greek butter cookies on a pink circular plate, paired elegantly with a glass of milk, all atop a rustic brown table.

Kourabiedes – Greek Butter Cookies

Uncle Dov's Memoir: Polish Ashkenazi Traditions (Pt. 2) - Tori Avey explores Jewish food history in an old family memoir belonging to an Ashkenazi family from the Pinsk region of Poland.

The Levin Family—Polish Ashkenazi Food and Traditions (Part 2)

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