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Podcast: Taste Buds With Deb
Episode: Food Poetry, Children's Books & Latkes with Lesléa Newman
Description: On this episode of Taste Buds with Deb, host Debra Eckerling speaks with children's book author, fiction writer and poet Lesléa Newman. Jewish comfort food showed up in one her first children's books, "Matzo Ball Moon," and has been making appearances in her work ever since.  "[Food is] part of our every holiday, every Shabbat," Newman, whose titles include "The Babka Sisters," "A Sweet Passover" and "Hanukkah." says. "It's important to … literally break bread; it's a way to show love [and[ nourish each other, literally and figuratively."  While these books are fic...