Yiddishe Cup wants its own <\/strong><\/span>candy bar.\u00a0 It’ll be dark chocolate with slivers of old clarinet reeds. We’ll put these treats in the goodie bags for the bar mitzvah kids.<\/p>\nAny leftovers, we’ll take to Yiddishe Cup’s haunted house.\u00a0 This year our torture chamber features Don Friedman, our drummer, telling nonstop Internet musicians’ jokes like\u00a0 “What is the definition of an optimist? A trombonist with a beeper.”<\/p>\n
Any leftover chocolates from the haunted house, we’ll give to our keyboard player, Alan Douglass, who is good for a candy bar and diet pop many mornings.\u00a0 Repeat at bedtime.\u00a0 I bought him a Snickers at a gas station and he refused it.\u00a0 It has to be MilkyWay or Three Musketeers.<\/p>\n
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The candy expert<\/strong><\/span> is Steve Almond, author of Candy Freak.<\/em><\/p>\nI, too, did some candy reporting, but I didn’t have the name for a career in it.\u00a0 In the 1980s I interviewed a chocolate factory owner who claimed dark chocolate was a Jewish thing.\u00a0 Maybe because of kashrut<\/em>? \u00a0[Jewish dietary laws]<\/p>\nYes, a lot of Jews prefer dark chocolate.\u00a0 For one thing, it is a health food.<\/p>\n
This year Yiddishe Cup is trick-or-treating as klezmer musicians. \u00a0 Yes, again.\u00a0 But with a twist: we’re ditching the Tevye <\/em>vests and caps, and going as chocolate fountains with silver-foil Frank Gehry antlers dripping Hershey’s syrup onto our faces.<\/p>\n—-<\/span><\/p>\n1 of 2 posts for 10\/27\/10.\u00a0 Please see the post below too.
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