The Jewish Daily Forward Conducts a Shtetl Food Taste Test

What foods would you eat if you lived in a shtetl (small village in Eastern Europe)? The Jewish Daily Forward conducted a taste test to see how everyday foods served there would fare in America today.

For the testers they invited two staff members of the newspaper, Avital Chizhik-Goldschmit, the Forward's Life Editor, and Steven Davidson, an Opinion Fellow, to taste six Jewish foods from the Ashkenazi shtetl days -- including two types of herring -- and one spicy Sephardi favorite.

Avital is orthodox and Steven is secular, but does that difference have any bearing on their reactions as they taste gribenes, matjes herring, Dijon herring, p'tcha, schmaltz, and zhug?

Enjoy!

A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:  THE VIDEO MAY NOT BE VIEWABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE EMAIL THAT YOU GET EACH DAY ON SOME COMPUTERS AND TABLETS.  YOU MUST CLICK ON THE TITLE AT THE TOP OF THE EMAIL TO REACH THE JEWISH HUMOR CENTRAL WEBSITE, FROM WHICH YOU CLICK ON THE PLAY BUTTON IN THE VIDEO IMAGE TO START THE VIDEO.