Do they teach girls how to cook in Seminary?

Oh well maybe youll change your mind after you taste my aristocratic cooking. Good Shabbos!

Thats just because most “Traditional Jewish” food is really bland and boring.

i dont think so

cholent with onions and garlic

chicken soup floating with schmaltz and a strong leek taste

pickled or matjes herring

gefilte fish with pungent horseradish

moo goo gai pan

That’s a lot of cholesterol!

Oh, and if you don’t speak Cantonese, you can just say stir fry.

that was my point

moo goo gai pan

a traditional Jewish food often served in “chinese” restaurants

blinky – Cheesecake and donuts arent a Jewish food.

Matzoh Balls are bland unless you dump a load of spicy into them, bit traditionally they are floating balls of bland.

If so, why the stir fry? You should switch it out for corned beef.

Moderator-80

Mr. 80

a traditional Jewish food often served in “chinese” restaurants

This reminds me of a story that sheds some light on the mistake in your definition.

A Chinese man was debating with a Jewish man whose culture was oldest. The Chinese man said, “We have tradition going back 3,000 years” and the Jewish man counters, “But ours goes back 4,000 years!”

The Chinese man raises his eyebrow and says, “Oh, yes? What you people eat for the first 1,000 years?”

🙂

80 – “golgi apparatus”

I didnt know you were a fan of Phish 😉

you lost me sac

I thought we were binging from now on?

you apparently are the only Jew in america that hasnt heard it before

And here I was thinking it was Mod80 who was the only one who hadn’t heard it… after all, it wasn’t Sacrilege who defined stir fry in that way

in my daughters seminary-now closed down-not only did they not learn how to cook-actually they didnt learn anything at all-but the school didnt even have a kitchen so the meals were ordered in from a restraunt every day. my daughter can make scrambled eggs,macaroni and cheese from a box and baked chicken with potatoes.when she gets married i have no problem paying the couples pomegrante bill.they make delicious food.home cooking is highly overated

demo, no way! you’re just testing us!

tzippi- my high school offered home economics, i guess not every school does.

Demo

I think cooking is something that’s a daily requirement to feed ones family and makes more sense for a woman to know how to do than a man knowing how to fix a car which doesn’t need fixing that often. I need a mechanic 1-2x a year. Most of us eat 3x a day.

Of course, it’s possible to learn to cook without any formal education in high school or seminary.

I’ve been told my food is quite good* — and I didn’t even start learning to cook until well after I graduated high school.

The Wolf

* So much so that my kids consider it a big treat when I cook something. Personally, I think Eeees’ cooking is much better than mine, but she and the kids disagree.

Not a bad idea, IMO. Aish HaTorah, and Aish Hamitbach.

While it’s true that the majority of girls attending seminary won’t become full time teachers , not life career teachers anyway, the reason for seminary existence is to give the girls an additional shot of immersion in Torah and yiddishkeit. These are the essentials of a yiddish family today, in the 21st century. We don not live in Europe. And in Europe before WW2 the gedolim foresaw the need for a bais yakov type of education. I said this earlier in this thread. The girls are the ikeres habayis. They are the ones who will be showing their children how to grow up as Torah true yidden. The little boys and girls don’t see their fathers davening. They do see the mother davening at home. The mother helps them with their yiddish homework. What’s the use of a fantastic cheesecake with zebra effects on it if the wife/mother has no appreciation for learning developed by her high school and seminary studies? Yes to some extent seminary is the 13th grade of high school. But it’s the capstone to their learning. It’s the foundation stone to their Torah and yiddishkeit life.

How did you get into cooking? I’m a guy and I don’t want to be an am haaretz in the kitchen I want to know how to make some good stuff besides grilling a good steak.

Practice. Start with some recipes from cookbooks. Once you’re comfortable with those, begin making some changes to them and experimenting.

You won’t be a master chef overnight (I’m not anywhere close to it even now), but in time, you’ll learn to prepare a meal. As it stands now, I can prepare an entire Shabbos meal* by myself, if necessary.

The Wolf

P.S. — for the record, I don’t know how to grill a steak on a barbecue. 🙂

* Well, except for the challah. While Eeees will allow me to cook for Shabbos, she jealously guards her challah-making privilege. 🙂 But I’m not complaining — she makes the BEST challah in the world — and she bakes it every week (except Pesach, of course).

Wolf does she share the recipe?

Wolf does she share the recipe?

I can probably get it from her.

The Wolf

I agree that there is no need to teach how to cook in seminary, you can teach yourself after marrige. The point is something else, that many women are resentful for having so much time wasted on housework, they’ed rather learn more Ramban. That is a problem.