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How Fleischmann’s Yeast Built the Jewish Catskills
The Times of Israel ^ | 7/10/21 | Joel Haber

Posted on 07/12/2021 1:13:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 07/12/2021 1:13:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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I love the smell of yeast cakes, though I haven’t seen anything but dry yeast in years. When I was a kid my mother baked homemade bread 2 or 3 times a week. She would make sandwiches of it for my school lunches. I was so embarrassed to pull my obviously homemade bread sandwiches out of my brown paper bag. I wanted Wonder Bread like the other kids had.

I would give anything to have my Mom’s bread spread with homemade black raspberry jelly right now.


2 posted on 07/12/2021 1:52:23 AM PDT by pnut22
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3 posted on 07/12/2021 2:11:38 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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Interesting.


4 posted on 07/12/2021 2:32:43 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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A man called his mother in Florida
“Mom, how are you?”
“ Not too good,” said the mother. “I’ve been very weak.”
The son said, “Why are you so weak?” She said, “Because I haven’t eaten in 38 days.”
The son said, “That’s terrible.
Why haven’t you eaten in 38 days?”
The mother answered,”Because I didn’t want my mouth to be filled with food if you should call.”


5 posted on 07/12/2021 2:47:15 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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I love the smell of yeast and of homemade bread. I used to bake a lot of bread of all types. But some years ago I worked at a company that was just down the road from the Red Star Yeast plant in Baltimore. OMG! You’d think it would smell wonderful, but it didn’t. Some days, especially if it was humid, I’d feel a lump in the back of my throat, would feel nauseous.

Now when I worked down the road from McCormick’s, that was different except for the days they were making garlic powder.


6 posted on 07/12/2021 3:07:31 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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bkmk


7 posted on 07/12/2021 3:14:47 AM PDT by japaneseghost
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‘Humid’ and Baltimore are synonymous.


8 posted on 07/12/2021 3:16:38 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: nickcarraway

The manager in “Dirty Dancing” sums up the problem well; the tourism industry up there was doomed by the availability of airline tickets to average Joes.

If you head up the Hudson Valley today, you’d be shocked by how much of it is “ghetto in the woods” and Hispanics maintaining a faux economy with wealth transfers/public assistance. Very sad, and very broke...


9 posted on 07/12/2021 3:38:58 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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Mel Brooks got his start in the Catskills. He tells the story of how he started using the “third wall”(?) that he used in his various movies - like the big brawl in Blazing Saddles where they ended up in the cafeteria and the Broadway show.

He was a waiter as a very young kid in the Catskills, but also the backup for some guy in the play. The guy got sick so Mel puts on a suit and a beard to play the part.

The crowd gives him a tough time. He pulls down his beard and says something like “What dah ya want? I’m twelve!”

They all laughed and he continued the role.


10 posted on 07/12/2021 3:41:18 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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It was even fondly referred to as 'the Jewish Alps.'

Photos of once lovely resorts captured by Marisa Scheinfeld


11 posted on 07/12/2021 3:55:48 AM PDT by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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I lived in NJ years ago and would go up there for vacations. Used to go cross-country skiing on trails surrounding a huge old resort. I forget the name of it - but it was a huge stone building like 4 stories tall - maybe 200 feet in length or more. It must have been quite the place back in the day (1920’s??)

It was all closed down, but there was a ski rental place operating out of a out-building on the site. We went there several years and there were always rumors that the place would be remodeled and open up again. But I doubt it.

I bet my wife would remember the name of the place - who knows - maybe they turned it into Condos for all of those fleeing NYC!?


12 posted on 07/12/2021 4:23:06 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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works great in septic tanks as well...


13 posted on 07/12/2021 4:46:50 AM PDT by Hatteras
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I’ve never seen Fleischmans gin. I’ll have to look for it.

L


14 posted on 07/12/2021 4:51:58 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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So many connections for me . . .

Worked Kutsher’s Sports Academy in 1977 and had a wonderful time. What was amazing was how good the food was for the campers, so much better than other places.

Myron Cohen was a client of my grandfather, who was a stockbroker and eventual partner of Newberger & Loeb. Not bad for an 8th grade drop out who went to work in the Depression. Myron ended up getting his brokerage license because he loved the challenge of investing so much. Back then (I used to visit the office as a kid in the mid 60’s) the branch offices had a small ‘visitor's room’ up front where clients could sit and watch the ticker, with one old-fashioned Quotron machine to use.

Myron was the first feature act at the Kutsher’s Hotel the first night of summer camp and I took a few of the other counselor's who had the night off to see him.

The Concord had this great golf course that was once rated as difficult as pretty much any in America. Grossinger’s was basically the hotel that was the model for Dirty Dancing.

Wilt Chamberlain considered the Kutsher family his second parents and there is a neat ESPN 30 for 30 short video on his experience there. The then-Lew Alcindor also worked a summer there as a bell hop.

Red Auerbach was the summer basketball coach there when that summer ball was the best around (hotels would play each other and recruit college ballplayers to work the summer).

Kutsher’s also hosted the Maurice Stokes Charity event each summer and many NBA players would show up to play to raise the funds.

It's memories only at this point as these places lay abandoned.

15 posted on 07/12/2021 5:11:09 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business )
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The town was also renamed Fleischmanns. A generation or two later the family started The New Yorker.
16 posted on 07/12/2021 5:17:30 AM PDT by x
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Makes good 8% Finnish beer with Juniper instead of Hops.


17 posted on 07/12/2021 5:30:51 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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18 posted on 07/12/2021 6:20:45 AM PDT by SJackson (blow in a dog’s face he gets mad, on a car ride he sticks his head out the window)
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The article linked to by the OP is not the original source for this story. If you want the actual author to get credit for you reading it, it’s here:

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/how-fleischmanns-yeast-built-the-jewish-catskills/


19 posted on 07/12/2021 6:27:52 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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We just moved to the great western Catskills, Delaware County. Our address is Arkville, one town west of Fleischmans on Route 28. We have not had a chance to check it out yet, but this is a timely article.


20 posted on 07/12/2021 8:51:53 AM PDT by stonehouse01
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