Come for the nosh, stay for the drash—it's kugel! Culinary historian Avery Robinson explores Jewish American cultural identity through the lens of this culturally significant Ashkenazi casserole. It’s a journey that begins in Medieval Europe and continues across the Atlantic to the Catskills where kugels' appearances and guises reflect a rapidly assimilating and globalizing American Jewry. 

Avery is a cofounder of Rye Revival, a nonprofit promoting rye as a climate change mitigation strategy, and he runs Black Rooster Food, maker of 100% rye sourdough bread.