Category Archives: Food

December 28, 2015

Posted on December 29, 2015 by edcol52

Yesterday marked the second anniversary of Jake’s passing. Last year on this day, I wrote a long post about the first year, and what lessons I learned. I don’t have much new to report this year. My cousin is here … Continue reading →

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A Darkened Hanukkah

Posted on December 22, 2014 by edcol52

Hanukkah. The Festival of Lights. The holiday commemorates the rededication of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem around 165 BCE. The Romans had sacked and looted the temple, and a band of Jewish guerrillas lead by Judah Maccabee prevailed over the … Continue reading →

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Message from Manila

Posted on December 8, 2014 by edcol52

In August, we sold our 100 year-old Detroit Jewel gas cooking stove. My dad bought it at a swap meet in 1972 and not quite knowing what to do with it, gave it to me. When I got it, it … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving

Posted on November 27, 2014 by edcol52

Well, here it is. Thursday. Thanksgiving. One day before another 28th. Wouldn’t it have been ironic if … well, anyway. This year it feels like someone else’s holiday. Oh yes, I have much to be grateful for. I have a … Continue reading →

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My New Blog

Posted on October 12, 2014 by edcol52

Hot Eddie’s is my new blog dedicated to what’s hot in the kitchen and everywhere else. After many months of chronicling my personal journey through grief at here at The Infinite Fountain, I thought I’d start a blog with a … Continue reading →

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Sukkot

Posted on October 11, 2014 by edcol52

We are in the midst of celebrating the 7-day holiday of Sukkot, the Jewish “Harvest Festival”. After all the fasting and atoning and spiritual soul-searching we are supposed to do during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Sukkot which comes just … Continue reading →

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The New Header Photo

Posted on October 6, 2014 by edcol52

Jake made this photo of a carousel, taken in London’s Covent Garden, during our last trip to England. It was 2006, the year of our family adventure in Italy. Jake attended a month-long cooking and language school in Bologna and we … Continue reading →

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Jake’s Birthday

Posted on August 20, 2014 by edcol52

Yesterday was Jake’s 25th birthday. Somehow we made it through without imploding, vaporizing, or disintegrating. We went for juicy pastrami sandwiches dripping with coleslaw on fresh crusty rye for lunch at Langer’s, an old-school deli in downtown LA. Jake would … Continue reading →

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Two Birthdays

Posted on August 18, 2014 by edcol52

One of the perks of being Jewish is that you have two birthdays. The calendar we are most familiar, actually called the Gregorian calendar, is a solar-based calendar and divides each year up into the familiar 365 days, 52 weeks, … Continue reading →

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Father’s Day, 2014

Posted on June 17, 2014 by edcol52

Yesterday was another first. My first Father’s Day without my son. To rephrase that, my first Father’s Day without my son alive. As days go, it was okay, difficult but okay. I dedicated the day to my son, Jake, who … Continue reading →

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