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Hugs to you, Leah. I didn’t have my own wits about me enough last week to respond to your beautiful post, but it meant a lot to me.

I have many of my Grandma’s Hungarian recipes, in her Palmer method script, in the dented green metal recipe box my mother took after Grandma died. I’m hoping there are enough recipes to suit my kosher and gluten free kitchen in this book, because it sounds like a wonderful way to have my Grandma by my side again. She came here at two, spoke Hungarian with her 6 siblings, and taught us to swear in Hungarian, but not to speak it. My mother knew enough Hungarian to talk to the wonderful owner of Paprikash Weiss when I lived in Yorkville - I still miss that place.

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Oof, I love the image you painted of your grandmother's recipe box! Thanks for sharing that lovely tribute to your grandma. There are definitely non-kosher recipes in Second Generation. But there are also many kosher-friendly/gluten free recipes. A quick scan through shows me: lecso (marinated peppers), sour cherry soup, Styrian pumpkin soup, lamb borscht, turnip schnitzel (that you could make with gf bread crumbs), smoked paprika brisket, short rib goulash, beans with poppy seeds, pine nuts & fennel, herby potato salad, poached radishes with boiled eggs, and tokaji-drenched strawberries & cream...among others!

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