Consider the Knish: The Final Stretch

I’ve sent my presentation off to Adult Ed for Tuesday night’s shindig, and in a very rare email message from my mother’s account, Mickey the Mustardeur (aka my dad) reports that his latest homemade batch is ready to go. It’s five-star (his term, echoed by friends who have tried it) and several alarm, à la chili.  It’s going to be spicy, kiddies.

And I can only hope the same for my talk and slide show, which will obviously include a special post-Passover State of the Knish address. I can’t reveal any of that before the fact, of course, but I will let you in on some of my planning for the talk. I started out with this schematic, handily posted in my living room, which covers the bulk of my knish research over, oh, say, the last five years.

It morphed quite a bit and now focuses on six of the original ideas on the post its, but that’s the joy and the rigor of editing.

Now to practice the delivery. And yes, there will be homebaked knishes on hand.