Wednesday, May 20, 2026

MOFAD Book Club: Like Wafers in Honey

round white ceramic plate filled with waffle

Join us for a MOFAD book club event as we discuss Leah Eskin’s new novel, Like Wafers in Honey, which was inspired by the life and recipes of Edda Servi Machlin. Machlin’s important cookbook The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews (along with its sequels) offers the compelling story of a vanished community — Machlin's family, along with the other Jewish townspeople of Pitigliano, known as Little Jerusalem, fled during World War II. Leah will be joined by Sari Kamin to discuss the process of converting Machlin’s recipes for the modern cook all while showing how memory, food, and storytelling can resist erasure.

Museum of Food and Drink

55 Water Street, 2nd floor | Brooklyn, NY 11201

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

7 - 9 PM (doors open at 6)

Purchase Tickets

Ticket includes entry to Street Food City from 6 PM to 7 PM, a bite from the book, and refreshments.

Courtesy of our partner bookseller Kitchen Arts & Letters, copies of Like Wafers in Honey can be pre-purchased in a ticket bundle and during the program.

Museum of Food and Drink

55 Water Street, 2nd floor | Brooklyn, NY 11201

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

7 - 9 PM (doors open at 6)

Purchase Tickets

Ticket includes entry to Street Food City from 6 PM to 7 PM, a bite from the book, and refreshments.

Courtesy of our partner bookseller Kitchen Arts & Letters, copies of Like Wafers in Honey can be pre-purchased in a ticket bundle and during the program.

Leah Eskin

writes about food and other pressing matters. For almost twenty years, her award-winning column “Home on the Range” ran in the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. She is the author of the memoir Slices of Life: A Food Writer Cooks Through Many a Conundrum. Bestselling cookbook author Meathead Goldwyn dubs Eskin “the poet laureate of recipes.” Baking diva Dorie Greenspan calls her work “smart, honest, literate, and funny—very funny.” Eskin writes the dessert column for Midwest Living and is the owner of Crumble Handmade Pastry. She lives in Chicago with her husband and their chocolate Lab, Milo. You can reach her at leaheskin.com.