Our first featured authors! Join authors of Kugels & Collards, Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey, for an evening featuring the southern Jewish table. The evening menu will feature classic Jewish and Southern recipes from the book. Come prepared to share your family's food memories! It will be an evening of great food, storytelling & as usual, connection.

Rachel Gordin Barnett & Lyssa Kligman Harvey

Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey have an interest in all things southern, Jewish and historical including foodways. 

Native South Carolinians, Rachel hails from small-town Summerton, SC, and Lyssa from Columbia, SC. They live in Columbia and have been instrumental in preserving Jewish history across the state. Founding members of the Historic Columbia Jewish Heritage Initiative, they created the Kugels & Collards blog to preserve and share Columbia’s Jewish history by collecting food stories, recipes and photographs in a digital venue. 

Rachel is a past president and current executive director of the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina. Lyssa is a teacher, therapist and artist. Her life work has been dedicated to helping children and impacting her community by creating the Columbia Holocaust Education Commission, the Jewish Cultural Arts and serving on arts and environmental boards.

Exploring southern and Jewish foodways enable Rachel and Lyssa to honor their own family histories and preserve those stories for future generations of South Carolinians.