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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Savor production of iHeartRadio. I'm Annie Reese.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum, and today we have an episode

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Speaker 2: for you about gaffilter fish.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I think I know the answer, but any particular

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Speaker 1: reason this was on your mind? Lauren?

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Speaker 2: Yes, as we record this, the Jewish holiday Passover is

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Speaker 2: right coming right up, and this is a dish that

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Speaker 2: is associated with Jewish holidays like Passover.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and I believe I've told this story before. My

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Speaker 1: one and only experience with gafilter fish was when I

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Speaker 1: went to in college. I went to a friend of

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Speaker 1: mine's Passover. Oh, and I could tell it was a dish,

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Speaker 1: like everyone was looking at me to see how I

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Speaker 1: would react, you know, And I tried and I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's good, no complaints.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think if you're if you're totally unfamiliar,

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Speaker 2: sometimes American palettes aren't east to the concept of like

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Speaker 2: a fish meatball kind of kind of thing, and particularly

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Speaker 2: if it's served chilled, that might be something that you're

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Speaker 2: just slightly confused by. But but yeah, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: food is good.

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Speaker 1: I like it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we I did, not to be fair, I did

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Speaker 2: not like a field fish when I was a kid,

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Speaker 2: and I haven't had it very often as an adult.

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Speaker 2: When I was a kid, it was just it was

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Speaker 2: too fishy for me, and right there was a texture

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Speaker 2: thing going on that I was not accustomed to and

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Speaker 2: therefore was kind of wary of. But also like my

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Speaker 2: family served it out of the jar, So I feel

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Speaker 2: like that might be that might have something to do

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Speaker 2: with it.

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Speaker 1: I have seen a lot lot of similar compellints, yeah,

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Speaker 1: which we'll talk about later. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, briefly, fast fast over passover being a feast day. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: mixed up the words feast and past. Where I liked

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Speaker 2: it is a is a feast day that is in

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Speaker 2: remembrance and and celebration of the Jewish people getting out

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Speaker 2: of Egypt basically, so yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And you can see our past episodes on MATSA

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Speaker 1: and Lucas maybe sure also aspect horse Radish. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: like all those. That's an interesting combination. I guess that

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Speaker 1: brings us to our question.

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Speaker 2: I guess it does. I feel like I've got a

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Speaker 2: lot of spoilers in here, but yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Gefilter fish, what is it?

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Speaker 2: Well, gafilter fish is a type of minced fish loaf

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Speaker 2: or dumpling that can come in a lot of varieties,

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Speaker 2: but what you're basically looking at is some kind or

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Speaker 2: kinds of usually fresh water, white fleshed fish, chopped fine

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Speaker 2: and then mixed with a mazza meal or maybe breadcrumbs,

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Speaker 2: diced onion, egg and seasonings basic stuff like salt and

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Speaker 2: pepper and maybe sugar, and then formed into small loaves

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Speaker 2: and cooked until tender, usually in a method like poaching

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Speaker 2: or steaming that gives them a soft finish. They can

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Speaker 2: be served chilled or room temperature or warm, often as

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Speaker 2: an appetizer with a with like a horse radish sauce

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Speaker 2: like hot horse radish, often for holiday meals. When gafilter

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Speaker 2: fish is chilled, they gel up a bit with an

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Speaker 2: almost aspect sort of quality. When warm, they's fluffy. They're

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Speaker 2: a non crispy fish cake. They inspire some strong nostalgia

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Speaker 2: and other strong opinions for me. At their best, they're

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Speaker 2: like if you took just a spoonful of like hearty

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Speaker 2: clear broth fish stew and made it delicate. It's a

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Speaker 2: it's a kind of practical sort of treat. It's like

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Speaker 2: it's like pulling on a fine sweater.

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Speaker 1: I do like putting on a fine sweater.

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, uh okay. I will say at the

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Speaker 2: top here that some of these strong opinions about cafil

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Speaker 2: to fish come from people only having been exposed to

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Speaker 2: the manufactured jarred type, which tend to be like simultaneously

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Speaker 2: extra strongly fishy and extra soft in texture. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's a canned dumpling, Like what do you expect? And

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Speaker 2: this is one of those cases where handmade is like

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Speaker 2: almost a different creature. Though, I like, I haven't had

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Speaker 2: the jarred kind since I was a kid, and now

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Speaker 2: I'm going, like what I like them? I like strongly

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Speaker 2: fishy flavors.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Also note here that if you're unfamiliar with kosher observances,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna mention a couple things throughout the episode, but

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Speaker 2: like that's a different episode. Like, if you're not familiar

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Speaker 2: and you're planning on cooking for someone who does keep kosher,

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Speaker 2: you should either look up kosher recipes or just ask

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Speaker 2: them what's appropriate, as with any dietary preference or restriction. Also,

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Speaker 2: in addition to not being scientists or dieticians, I'm not

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Speaker 2: an expert in kosher observances.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're experts and a couple of things, but a

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Speaker 1: lot of them surprisingly are not food based at all. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're learning with all of you.

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Speaker 2: But okay, so let's unpack those ingredients first. The fish,

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Speaker 2: whatever is local and fresh and preferred can work, but

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Speaker 2: like nice, mild, flaky types of white freshwater fish are

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Speaker 2: the most common. Things like pike, carp or whitefish. Things

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Speaker 2: that are you know, like a little delicately sweet, a

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Speaker 2: little fishy, not too oily. Note that not all fish

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Speaker 2: are kosher. For example, catfish are not because they don't

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Speaker 2: have scales. Again, kosher stuff separate episode. Next. Fine chopped

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Speaker 2: onion and possibly other aromatic vegetables like maybe carrots can

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Speaker 2: add some flavor and some texture in there. Sometimes these

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Speaker 2: will be cooked before being added so that they're not

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Speaker 2: too crunchy in the final product. Egg and mozza meal

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Speaker 2: are in to bind everything together and lead to like

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Speaker 2: a light and tender texture. Mozza meal is the coarseish

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Speaker 2: ground meal made from matza, which are unlovened crackers usually

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Speaker 2: made out of wheat flour. They're good at soaking up

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Speaker 2: moisture and flavor, while like maintaining fluff as long as

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Speaker 2: you don't pack them too hard. Egg white proteins meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: unfurl when they're heated and then form like springy little

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Speaker 2: long as you don't heat them too much. Further past

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Speaker 2: that point, egg yolks provide richness. Other season seasonings tend

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Speaker 2: to be minimal salt, pepper, maybe lemon juice or nutmeg

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Speaker 2: of sugar to play on the slight sweetness of the fish.

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Speaker 2: It's usually just a bit of sugar, like sweet like

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Speaker 2: a crab cake, not sweet like a birthday cake. Usually, again,

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Speaker 2: people have opinions. The cooking method really can vary. Like traditionally,

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Speaker 2: like a bunch of hole fish. Really, you remove the

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Speaker 2: filets and then make a fish stock using the heads

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Speaker 2: and gently hand press it into like little oval dumplings

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Speaker 2: like the size of an egg or like a canal.

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Speaker 2: You know. Then when the stock is done, you strain

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Speaker 2: egg holds everything together. At this point they can be

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Speaker 2: served warm or stored in the fridge to chill, and

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Speaker 2: then later served either directly or gently reheated. When cafilter

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Speaker 2: the stock will form up into you know, a sort

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Speaker 2: of like gela or aspec due to the gelatin in

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Speaker 2: the fish bones, you know, like a like a savory

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Speaker 2: fish broth jello kind of situation. And so when they're

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Speaker 2: served chilled, a bit of the gel is often served

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Speaker 2: along with the gaffelda fish. The kind of traditional or

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Speaker 2: maybe old fashioned way I guess of serving them is

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Speaker 2: piece and then an accompaniment of prepared horsepratish that is

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Speaker 2: fresh grated horsepradish with a bit of vinegar to preserve

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Speaker 2: the spiciness. Yeah, or maybe like a cold sauce made

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Speaker 2: with horsepratish and beets or mayo or something maybe like

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Speaker 2: on top a leaf lettuce or with sprigs of parsley

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Speaker 2: or dill. But people do all kinds of takes. I've

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Speaker 2: seen recipes for steamed cafilter fish, baked cafilter fish, gafilter

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Speaker 2: made with cold smoked fish, or with nice rich salmon.

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Speaker 2: You can form larger loaves and then slice them into

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Speaker 2: individual portions after cooking and or chilling. There are regional

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Speaker 2: rifts of fish cakes that are fried or that are

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Speaker 2: so with a tomato sauce or served with a lemon sauce.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I just had the traditional carrot on top.

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Speaker 1: It was cold, but it was savory. I remember that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it was good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was good.

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Speaker 1: What about the nutrition.

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Speaker 2: I guess by themselves. It depends on how you make it,

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Speaker 2: as with any dish, you know, by themselves. Cathelta fish

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Speaker 2: are pretty good for you, you know, like decent punch of protein.

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Speaker 2: It can can be can range high in fats depending

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Speaker 2: on how you make them. But yeah, I'd say overall, yeah,

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Speaker 2: drink water, eat a vegetable that isn't just a single

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Speaker 1: Day. All right, Well, the numbers.

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Speaker 2: We have known for you, I have no numbers for you.

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Speaker 2: I could not find numbers about the global production of

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Speaker 2: manufactured gafilter fish and I maybe I didn't look that hard.

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Speaker 2: I could have looked harder.

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Speaker 1: This is probably my fault. It's okay, Lauren, Well yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so. Okay, listeners, they'll forgive it. It's the

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Speaker 1: holidays were about right forget Yeah, sure, well we do

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Speaker 1: have quite a history for you. We do.

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Speaker 1: And we're back. Thank you sponsors, Yes, thank you. Uh So.

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Speaker 2: Although gafilter fish is a dish that is in and

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Speaker 2: like small loaf, formed today, it started out as a

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Speaker 2: type of stuffed or or force meat fish dish. The

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Speaker 2: Yiddish term gefilta comes from a word for stuffed.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and the first recipe for stuffed pike appeared in

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Speaker 1: a non Jewish German cookbook from around thirteen fifty CE.

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Speaker 1: The recipe called for herbs like saffron and stage to

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Speaker 1: be mixed together with fish meat and then put back

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Speaker 1: into the fish skin for roasting. Soon after, similar recipes

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Speaker 1: started appearing in French cookbooks and yeah, during Lint and

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Speaker 1: other religious days for Catholics, this and dishes like it

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Speaker 1: were very popular for you know, abstaining from meat.

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Speaker 2: Because fish don't count is meat for complicated other reasons.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, complicated other reasons. Indeed, sometime during the Middle Ages,

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Speaker 1: some Jewish communities in Europe adopted the dish in some celebrations,

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Speaker 1: since fish dishes were often and symbolic of a lot

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Speaker 2: Yeah, prosperity, protection, fertility.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And for a while there were a lot of

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Speaker 1: regional takes on this dish, different types of fish used,

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Speaker 1: based on what was readily available, different preparations, but one

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Speaker 1: time consuming m h yep. That is until a new,

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Speaker 1: less arduous preparation came alone. Many Jewish households in Europe

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Speaker 1: started making dumplings with fish, eggs and mozzamiale by the

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Speaker 1: seventeenth century. That could be viewed as a precursor to

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Speaker 1: more common modern preparations of filter fish, and it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a popular dish for a lot of reasons

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Speaker 1: for Jewish folks in Europe, perhaps especially to those with

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Speaker 1: easy access to fish. It was fairly cheap, it was convenient,

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Speaker 1: and could be made ahead of time to meet religious stipulations.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not spoke to do work during the Sabbath

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Speaker 2: or high holidays, and work includes pulling the bones out

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Speaker 2: of fish. But you could make these dumplings like the

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Speaker 2: day before, and you know they're by nature boneless, and

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Speaker 2: they're pre cooked for consumption the day of.

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Speaker 1: I'm all for it. In nineteenth century Poland, the introduction

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Speaker 1: of the sugar beet industry led to sweet gafilter fish.

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Speaker 1: This is fantastic. So we'll start with Kelsey. Kelsey wrote,

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Speaker 1: In order to flavor our food, I have repurposed my

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Speaker 1: So we're both happy. That's amazing. That's a good idea.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it depends. It depends on the severity of the war.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of bouquet arni, which is French term.

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Speaker 1: Oh yea. And also yeah, listeners write in about this milk?

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Speaker 2: Just don't like the stuff. My grandmother was born in

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Speaker 2: Ireland in the eighteen nineties. She started me on tea

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Speaker 2: as a young child by making me a cup of

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Speaker 2: tea which was ninety percent milk and a lot of sugar.

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Speaker 1: As I got.

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Speaker 2: Older, it became stronger tea without the sugar. So my

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Speaker 2: grandmother was drinking tea before the invention of the tea bag.

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Speaker 2: She never liked tea and bags. When she moved in

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Speaker 2: with us after the death of my grandfather, we used

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Speaker 2: to have the more expensive loose tea just for her,

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Speaker 2: and everyone else had to use the tea in the bags.

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Speaker 2: There is one thing she told me about tea bags

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Speaker 2: that stayed with me all my life. She said that

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Speaker 2: at the tea factory, each night they would sweep the

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Speaker 2: floor and they would use that for filling the tea bags.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if she really believed that or not. Also,

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Speaker 2: here in Canada, the tea bags do not have a

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Speaker 2: string on them. You have to remove it from the

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Speaker 2: cup with a spoon, though I usually use my fingers.

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Speaker 2: The slight burn is the price I pay for being

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Speaker 2: too lazy to get up to get a spoon. The

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Speaker 2: tea bags here also have slightly more tea in them

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Speaker 2: than US bags for a slightly stronger cup of tea.

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Speaker 1: Interesting. Okay, I have to say I've heard that what

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Speaker 1: I've fairly certain as a rumor.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I've I've heard that before as well.

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Speaker 2: Now I can't remember who would have said that to

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Speaker 2: me or in what context, but at any rate, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's the It's definitely a thing. I'm pretty sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's just an urban legend, but but that is how

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Speaker 2: people who dislike teabags feel about it.

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Speaker 1: For sure.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is emotionally true, if nothing else exactly exactly.

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Speaker 1: I don't think, I this is really interesting to me,

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Speaker 1: just because I don't think I had tea other than

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Speaker 1: like sweet tea until I was in college. I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I I don't know. I don't know if that's strange

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Speaker 1: for an American or not. I know for other countries

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Speaker 1: that's not the case.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think the I think the first my

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Speaker 2: first exposure to tea was in like Chinese restaurants, but

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Speaker 2: occasionally my Jewish grandmother would brew hot tea. But other

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Speaker 2: than that, yeah, it was like cold like iced tea

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Speaker 2: until relatively recently. By relative, I don't know what time

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Speaker 2: is anymore, so I might mean just after college, which

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Speaker 2: has been a minute.

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Speaker 1: I also do kind of love. Somebody in my family

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Speaker 1: who's younger than me. She bought like a blue, a

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Speaker 1: fancy blue tea kettle in all these loose leave teas

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Speaker 1: she was going to. It felt like a very you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to read this book and make this teah

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Speaker 1: and then she did. The convenience factor is gone. So

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Speaker 1: it is interesting to me the strong opinions people have

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Speaker 1: and sort of the sometimes romanticizing of that, not the

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Speaker 1: tea bag, of the original process of making tea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it can be very nice. I do

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Speaker 2: enjoy the process and the accoutrem but not if I've

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Speaker 2: just woken up and I need some caffeine, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: like that is when a tea bag is very good.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's kind of the same. I used to be

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Speaker 1: the same where if I had a what I used

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Speaker 1: to call lazy Sundays, which I didn't know was a

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Speaker 1: whole thing pop culturally, but anyway, I used to make

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Speaker 1: a French press of coffee, but I would only do

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Speaker 1: it on the you know, Sundays where I woke up

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Speaker 1: and I felt rested and I was like, I have

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Speaker 1: time to do this. Otherwise I'm like, just get me

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Speaker 1: that caf It's possible.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, I mean right, and like

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Speaker 2: you know, like I've I've been to as an adult.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've had friends throw like tea parties and

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Speaker 2: they were very nice. But a lot of work.

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Speaker 1: So much work, yes, which is lovely. Sometimes, Sure, you

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Speaker 1: just need the quick you need the quick figure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not when you just need the caffeine exactly. Yeah.

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