Deena Prichep

Deena Prichep is a freelance journalist based in Portland, Oregon.

Deena Prichep is a freelance radio and print journalist based in Portland, Oregon. Her stories on topics ranging from urban agriculture to gefilte fish have appeared on NPR's Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and All Things Considered, The World, The Splendid Table, Bon Appetit, Marketplace, Vegetarian Times, Salon.com and The Oregonian.

How humble kugel becomes a ‘red-letter feast’ for Yom Kippur

October 9, 2019Food

The earliest reference to kugel goes back to the 13th century.

Russian-born musician Pavel Lion performs under the name Psoy Korolenko

Pavel Lion is kind of a cross between Fyodor Dostoyevsky and ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

February 21, 2017Music

Tacos al pastor from Carmela's Mexican Restaurant in Beaumont, Texas.

Thank the Ottoman Empire for the taco al pastor

May 6, 2015Food

Fania Lewando, a restaurant owner in Poland before World War II, wrote a Yiddish cookbook that reveals a vibrant Jewish vegetarian tradition.

Jewish vegetarians say you don’t have to make brisket for Passover — and they’ve got the recipes to prove it

April 1, 2015Food

Tony Gurdian, at Imperial in Portland, Oregon, uses his homemade switchel to make a drink called The Haymaker's Revival.

A colonial-era drink called switchel is making a 21st century comeback

November 26, 2014Food

When Jews lived in the Soviet Union, they had to hide their matzah in suitcases

April 15, 2014Lifestyle & Belief

In the years after World War II, it became illegal to make Passover matzah in Soviet synagogues. So local Jews instead started baking matzah at home, in secret.

When Jews lived in the Soviet Union, they had to hide their matzah in suitcases

April 15, 2014Lifestyle & Belief

In the years after World War II, it became illegal to make Passover matzah in Soviet synagogues. So local Jews instead started baking matzah at home, in secret.