Food

A bureka is a bundle of joy usually filled with feta cheese softened with creamy mashed potatoes. It’s a must have in the Rhodesli kitchen.

This Sukkot in my father’s memory, my mother will cook one of his favorite dishes — Fish Pilau Im’tabak — a classic dish from the Iraqi/Babylonian Jewish kitchen.

It is especially customary to eat letrea as part of the meal before the fast of Yom Kippur.

Tishpishti is such a throwback to the flavors of my childhood in my grandmother’s kitchen.