If the dearth of latke recipes in Martha Stewart Living has got you down, don't despair: Jewish Living, a magazine that attempts to rectify the "shortage of information specifically for Jewish women in the popular homemaking magazines," is soon to debut. "Martha Stewart Living and Oprah magazine and Good Housekeeping and Cookie magazine all do a wonderful job of doing Easter and Thanksgiving and Christmas, but no one is doing Hanukkah or Passover," said its publisher, a former ad exec. Um ... maybe because only 2.5% of the U.S. population even feels guilty about the fact that it barely halfassedly celebrates those holidays? [NYT]
11:15 AM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Emily Gould
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This can only pave the way for my pet project, "College Callgirl's Birthday Magazine."
Wait til Walmart comes out with their wacky light up holiday yamulkes.
"Oh it was just darling! At the Metzger's Seder they had little streaks of fake blood on all the doors!"
How many articles can a magazine churn out about making reservations at your local Chinese restaurant?
Who needs recipes for Hannukah? It's latkes and jelly donuts. Pick up a few Mickey D's hash browns and hit Dunkin' Donuts, and you have your holiday meal right there.
I like the travel feature about going to the whine country.
@LolCait:That's a good thing.
*It's a good thing is trademarked to Martha Stewart living and I ain't paying her to use it*
Um ... maybe because only 2.5% of the U.S. population even feels guilty about the fact that it barely halfassedly celebrates those holidays?
Ohhh, I can see that there's a certain 2.5% of the population is going to be visited by elfs and ghosts and the supernatural realm, until they can learn to make the yuletide merry!
LEAVE SCROOGE ALONE RIGHT NOW.
@Queen of the Passive Aggressives: Those are on the same aisle as the singing, wall-mounted gefilte fish.
@reluctantentity: Not elves. If you ignore Hanukkah the ghost of your great-aunt Sadie shows up and cooks all night in your kitchen, rattling around and complaining loudly while you try to sleep saying things like "So, it would kill you to buy a decent roasting pan?" and "Where's the Kosher salt?" and "This sink is filthy --when did you last clean it, during the Eisenhower administration?"
@PandoraSpocks: I'm pretty sure my great-aunt Sadie is an elf. She dated Drizzt.
@collegecallgirl: Is there hope for a feature on the ever-popular birthday suit?
What, you gonna stare at the fancy frosting and decorations and tschotskes all day?
Eat, eat, you look famished already!
@reluctantentity: Great comeback.
Instead of "It's a good thing," Jewish Living's slogan will be:
"Is that such a bad thing?"
just wait for "ellagood's ramadan recipe guide" - it's seinfeldian.
@MisterHippity: party pick right there. genius.
@ellagood: Why thank you! [cough, cough] lolcait@yahoo.com [cough]
@PandoraSpocks: Actually, Dritzzt dates everybody. That's why the Ogre chief hates him so.
Do they spin the dradle (sp?) for chocolate coins? It's always about money with those people.
Martha, bubbeleh- please show teh Jews you care with Choosing Maneschewitz 101 or collecting antique mahjongg tiles.
Actually, Martha had a sweet potato latke recipe a few years back. She will conquer all holidays (and holy days)!!! I'm a gentile, but oy veh were they delicious!
Martha is all-powerful and all-knowing:
she knows what the people want even before they do.
([marthastewartliving.com]) in case that embedded link isn't working, which it seems not to be.
@emmyjane: Jinx!...sort of.
Oyprah Magazine or Martha Jewart Living?
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