Feeding Fleishman: Ep. 191

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Donate to the Unorthodox fundraising drive and help us keep going strong! Our Jewish guest is Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times Magazine writer and author of Fleischman is in Trouble. She tells us about the moment she learned her debut novel was a New York Times bestseller, why she writes from such a specific—and jewish—place, and why people are always asking her about Philip Roth. Our Gentile of the Week is Umber Ahmad, the banker-turned baker behind Mah-Ze-Dahr bakery in Manhattan's West Village. She brings us their delicious old-fashioned donuts, which are made with buttermilk, lemon zest, and vanilla bean and are fried and then glazed. She tells us about growing up in Northern Michigan to Pakistani immigrant parents, and learning from a young age to use food to tell stories and create community. Her question for the hosts is about how food became such an integral part of the Jewish holiday calendar. Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com or leave a message at our listener line: 914-570-4869. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group. Get your Unorthodox T-shirts, sweatshirts, and baby onesies at bit.ly/unorthoshirt.

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0:50.0	podcast. I am Mark Oppenheimer joined today today by my co-hosts, tablet deputy editor,
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0:57.5	Leellevits.
0:58.4	Hello to you.
0:59.8	This week, we interviewed returning Jew of the week.
1:02.3	I believe she's now a three-timer
1:04.3	do of the week taffy beat Jewish a three-peep jouess taffy brodesser
1:08.4	actner she is going to be speaking with us about her new book Fleishishman is in trouble, a book so popular
1:13.9	that I now see it as one of the 12 offerings
1:16.0	in airport bookstores.
1:17.6	I was just flying and I saw it.
1:19.0	Like the options were James Patterson, Stephen King,
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