In 2003, recently married and navigating my first kosher kitchen, I started The Kosher Blog to document all the recipes, food products, and kitchen tools I was experimenting with. It only so happened that others took interest, and as blogging generally became more commonplace, the blog's audience grew into a dynamic community. A few co-authors even joined in.
Then kids happened, work got more intense, and my writing trailed off. Around 2012, my web host shut down without a durable backup (besides the Internet Archive).
Fast forward a decade and a half, and I'm at a new, but remarkably similar, chapter in my life. We've relocated from Boston to Jerusalem, I'm back in an apartment kitchen, my 110-volt appliances will all need replacing, and many of the supermarket ingredients are just a little bit different (not to mention highly seasonal).
So it's time to get back to blogging — sharing what I'm learning, asking questions out to the universe, and maybe finding a new community here of cooks and eaters.
—Jonathan Abbett, February 2026