Why the owner of Saul’s Deli dropped everything and went to Poland
Peter Levitt said that cooking for Ukrainian refugees was his way to fight back against Putin.
Alix Wall is an Oakland-based freelance writer. She is contributing editor of J., The Jewish News of Northern California, for which she has a food column and writes other features. In addition to Berkeleyside’s Nosh, her writing can be found in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Edible East Bay and more. Alix is also the founder of The Illuminoshi: The Not-So-Secret Society of Bay Area Jewish Food Professionals and is producer/writer of a documentary in progress called “The Lonely Child.” Her web site is: https://alix-wall.com/
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