eh, somehow, even with all the fuss around here, it felt like a special time all the same. the beginning of fall is the right time for a new year's celebration; i can get behind that entirely.

and although our meals were a little prefab, ben unearthed a bottle of my ex-husband's homebrewed mead, which obviously works for rosh hashanah. (it made doing any letterpress corrections later that evening something of an impossibility for ben, but otherwise, it really was the highlight of the holiday!)

notice the book in this photo: THE JEWISH-SICILIAN COOKBOOK. didn't know there was such a thing, did you? well, we've had it on pre-order since march. and we didn't even write it! it's not a very "serious" cookbook, but it was necessary to get it nonetheless.