Spicy food and spicy Jews

Eve's Gardeners · Feb 5, 2026 · 1h 26m

This week in the Garden, we’re talking about the Jews you don’t usually hear about.

I’m joined by Raquel aka The Blonde Sephardi to dive into the rich, complex, and often overlooked world of Sephardic Jews. From history and expulsion to culture, food, and identity, this episode is about the Jewish story that doesn’t always make it into the textbooks.

So often when people picture a Jew, they picture Europe. But Sephardic Jews built Jewish life across the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond carrying our traditions, flavor, and resilience with us wherever we were forced to go. We didn’t…