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Sababa Secrets: Ep. 194

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

'The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia,' our guide to all things Jewish (and Jew-ish), is out next month! Pre-order your copy today and you could win a Zabar's gift basket—to enter, forward a copy of your receipt or confirmation to unorthodox@tabletmag.com. This week, two more Jewish guests! We sit down with food writer Adeena Sussman, whose new cookbook is Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli Kitchen. She tells us why we should be eating more tahini (which is the same thing as tahina), how she puts her own spin on Israeli food as a California native transplanted to Tel Aviv, and how we can easily incorporate Middle Eastern herbs and spices into our dishes. Next, we hear an interview Stephanie did with author Dani Shapiro, whose memoir Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love begins with the surprising results of an online DNA kit she submitted on a whim. Dani discusses what it was like to grow up always being told she didn't "look Jewish," how the discovery of her paternity affected her sense of identity—Jewish and otherwise, and whether we can realistically expect family secrets to stay hidden in today's modern era. Let us know what you think of the show! 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. This episode is sponsored by KOL Foods, delivering great tasting, healthy, sustainable, and ethically raised kosher meat. Get a 10 percent discount on your next order using the code UNORTHODOX at kolfoods.com.

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What better way to be proudly Jewish right now than with our book, the Newish Jewish Encyclopedia?

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It's the perfect coffee table book for your proud Jewish home,

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and it covers everything from Jewish history pop culture holidays and of course food

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all with our trademark irreverence and love our publisher is offering a special

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20% discount on newest Jewish and their entire Hanukk shop. So head to Artisan Books.com

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and use the code unorthodox at check out.

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That's Artisan Books.

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Discount code, unorthodox, all caps.

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caps. This is unorthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast,

0:37.0

J sui Mark Oppenheimer.

0:39.0

Joined today by my co-hosts, tablet senior writer Leah Leibovitz.

0:42.0

Look who goes first.

0:43.4

Oh wow, he took it away for me.

0:45.4

No, I don't like you being back in the studio.

0:47.4

And tablet, deputy editor Stephanie Butnik.

0:49.8

Hello.

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This week, two Jews, cookbook author Edina Sussman, author of the Sabah Cookbook, and also we will be hearing a conversation that Stephanie had with Danny Shapiro,

0:58.7

author of the memoir Inheritance, which starts out with the unexpected results of a DNA test.

1:04.7

It's everyone's worst my heritage.com

1:07.2

my ancestry.com 23 and me nightmare

1:09.9

the unexpected results.

1:11.6

Your unexpected results were that you're 98.3% Ashkenasi instead of a 99.6%

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