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It’s Shavuot.
It’s time for cheese blintzes at my place.

Recipe from ‘A Year of Jewish Cooking’

Shavuot celebrates two things — gratitude for the wheat harvest in ancient Israel which used to be marked by bringing offerings of bread to the Temple, and the moment Moses received the Torah on Mt Sinai.

Then the Temple was destroyed in 70 C.E and Jews scattered across the world. No harvest to bring. No Temple to bring it to. But the Torah remained, and so did the festival.

We like to believe that the dairy tradition grew out of that same moment when Moses came down with the new laws of kashrut, no meat had been prepared the right way, so the people had no choice but to eat a dairy meal. And because the Jewish people LOVE to mark any occasion with food, it stuck. Across centuries of diaspora life the dairy focus (especially cheesecake and blintzes in our part of the world) became as much a part of Shavuot as studying the torah. 🧀🍰

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