Matzah Ball Soup with Shari Goldstein
By Shari Goldstein
Categories: Society & Culture
Matzah Ball Soup with Shari Goldstein — one short story a day from the kitchen of Shari Goldstein, the house everyone ends up in. You don't have to be Jewish to understand a mother's soup. Some days it's a funny one — bubbes, kitchens, holidays, family chaos. Some days it's a lifelong lesson inside a story. And some days the world is heavy, and Shari meets it with one warm story and a bowl of soup. From her book Matzah Ball Soup for Everyone. Every episode ends with Shari's prescription. Come in. Sit. There's soup.
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Recent episodes
- The Candle in the Window
The Candle in the Window — Shari's daughter in Chicago calls twice after a hard headline about a synagogue near her apartment, wondering whether to tuck away her bubbe's star necklace and hide her Shabbat candles. A serious story told with heart, about a menorah moved back to the window, soup…
- The Freezer Clean-Out
The Freezer Clean-Out — Shari's freezer door will not close, so a sensible clean-out turns into a family tribunal over hopefully labeled soups, a bag of challah ends saved for a bread pudding she never makes, and one small container in a child's handwriting marked emergencies only. A funny story…
- The Extra Chair
The Extra Chair — Shari's bubbe always set one more place at the Friday table, for whoever was hungry an hour from now. A lifelong lesson hiding inside a story: about a folding chair in a tiny first apartment, a brother with a duffel bag, and why room made ahead of time is love made ahead of…
- The Great Container Swap
The Great Container Swap — Shari sends out four labeled containers of soup and gets back a square container belonging to the Hendersons, a cookie tin full of rugelach, and her son's very first homemade soup. A funny story about good containers, little hearts on lids, and why what comes back is…
- The Recipe With No Measurements
The Recipe With No Measurements — Shari's daughter in Chicago calls home, baffled by Bubbe's recipe card: one chicken, water enough, salt some, and for the matzah balls, make them like I showed you. Two kitchens, six hundred miles apart, one phone propped against a sugar jar — a lifelong-lesson…
- One Egg, Fourteen People
One Egg, Fourteen People — Rosa from two doors down knocks at Shari's side door needing one egg for her grandson Mateo's birthday cake, and one small, reasonable request turns into fourteen people at a Friday table. A funny story about side doors, lumpy challah, and how proud people ask for big…
- Sinker or Floater (and Why the Judge Gets Two Coins)
Shari opens her kitchen with the great family debate: sinker or floater? Her mother made floaters, Aunt Sylvia made sinkers, and a teenage investigation, a grandfather's perfect ten, and a pot of lopsided floaters made in a mother's honor teach what family arguments are really about. Prescription…
- Welcome to Matzah Ball Soup with Shari Goldstein
Matzah Ball Soup with Shari Goldstein — one short story a day from the kitchen of Shari Goldstein, the house everyone ends up in. You don't have to be Jewish to understand a mother's soup. From her book Matzah Ball Soup for Everyone. Every episode ends with Shari's prescription. Come in. Sit…
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