Our mistress of the spices

24.10.2011                      26.Tischrei. 5772

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Our mistress of the spices

An upcoming festival in memory of the amazing Dona Gracia is reason enough to try a couple of Sephardi recipes.

It’s quite amazing to discover that there was once a woman so classy, well-educated, refined and business savvy that she amassed fabulous wealth (mostly from the sale of black peppercorns and other spices) and power in the financial sector and had 16th-century Europe clamoring at her doorstep. It’s even more amazing to discover that she was Jewish, saved untold numbers of Jews from certain death, and yet her memory has, for the most part, been forgotten.
But there’s a happy end to this story. In just a few weeks, history will be rectified: There will be a festival in Tiberias in her honor….

AVAS FRESCAS

LEAH GUETA’S HARIME