Lectures • Workshops • Tours • Uncommon Conversations

The knish gets people talking — about history, memories, identity, recipes, people and places they haven’t thought about in a long time: Aunt Gladys, Coney Island, the Old Country. Harness the hunk of dough to create meaningful, face-to-face interactions. Choose from this menu of opportunities, or create your own experience.

for communal professionals

  • Knish as Catalyst for Community: Using Shared Memories to Strengthen Membership
  • Of Knishes and Continuity: Food as a Tool for Conversation and Engagement
  • Welcoming the Stranger: How — and Why — to Talk to People You Don’t (Yet) Know

for foodies

  • Roll in the Dough: Hands-on Knish-baking Workshops for Team Building and Sustenance
  • Hot on the Knish Trail: Serendipity (Beshert) and the Hunt for an Ancient Recipe
  • Unwrapped: Food Memoir Writing for Every Palate

for families, friends and holiday celebrations

  • Knish Cocktail Hour: an interactive presentation on the history of the hunk of dough
  • Story Mixer: a step-by-step kit for gathering oral history from people of any age
  • Recipes for Conversation: a hands-on guide for surviving — and enjoying — family events
  • It’s All Cyrillic To Me: Adventures in Amateur Genealogy