This artifact is a cookbook. But it isn't just an ordinary cookbook. It's my family’s community cookbook. It is titled  “Deal Delights.” This cookbook came from my Dad’s side of the family, who are in a Jewish community. This community was formed when the Safartic/Syrian Jews (AKA Jews from the middle east) were kicked out of Syria. They all ended up migrating to Brooklyn. And in the summers they go to Deal, New Jersey. (My family stays in Brooklyn year-round) This is how the cookbook got its name, “Deal Delights’’. I chose this artifact as my presentation simply because it's the main source of all our traditional holiday food. Rather than being passed down, it is bought and given to other people in my family as a gift. It was put together by everyone in the community, each sharing their own ways to make each food in the cookbook. It is still manufactured today and there will be many more copies to come. I  eat my Dad’s, Grandma’s and two of my Aunt’s food from the cookbook. They all make the meals from the book a little differently. Some of my favorite meals from the cookbook are Challa, Matzo Ball Soup and Syrian String Cheese. Some questions I have for my ancestors who wrote the cookbook are how they decided which recipes would be in the cookbook. Another question I have for my ancestors is why they chose to make the cover of the cookbook red as everyone in my family refers to it as the “Red Book.” In conclusion, this cookbook provides me with some of my favorite family meals.                                                                                                                      

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