'We smile about it, but we're serious': Searching for elves in Iceland

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🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Robin Young and Karyn Miller-Medzon revisit their 2019 trip to Iceland when they explored the enduring presence of elves, or "hidden folk" in Icelandic culture. Also, on the first night of Hanukkah, Leah Koenig offers some recipes for the Jewish Festival of Lights. She's the author of "The Jewish Cookbook." And for dessert, Peter DiMario reflects on the new cookbook he co-wrote with Judith Choate. "Jiggle!" expands the repertoire of gelatin far beyond the Jell-O mold.

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0:56.3	from everyone at NPR and WVR Boston. Today on the show, Ho-Ho, it's Christmas. I mean,
1:07.6	the first night of Hanukkah, it's Christmica? We've got some recipes for the next eight nights.
1:13.9	And a little non-denominational dessert for you, too.
1:18.1	A new cookbook is all about jello.
1:21.1	Well, gelatin, more generally.
1:22.8	I started to realize that, you know, I could make really beautiful flavors outside of the
1:28.9	artificially flavored gelatin that we all kind of grew up with in my age anyway.
1:33.6	Before we get to that, though, let's spare a few minutes to consider the enduring power of
1:39.2	hidden folk, aka elves, in Icelandic culture.
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