BOOKS by Mordechai Schmutter
CHOLENT MIX
Going to work in a Purim costume. Genetic bad drivers. Lawns painted green. Moody vacuum cleaners. Bears stealing sandwiches. Cows facing north. Exploding mangoes.
The strangest novel ever? A book of halachos of everyday life?
Neither. It’s Cholent Mix, a collection of hilarious essays by Mordechai Schmutter.
THIS SIDE UP
Why does your cell phone always ring when you’re fake talking on it?
Why are the people behind you going ninety miles an hour and the people in front of you are going five?
Why do we circle the lot five times to find the best parking spot right in front of the gym?
If you’ve ever asked yourself questions like these, you may have noticed that the world is upside down. Sometimes the only way to cope is to look at it from the correct angle. Hence this book.
A CLEVER TITLE GOES HERE
From the back cover:
Okay, so you’re standing in the bookstore, or online, or both, and you’re trying to decide whether to buy this book.
On the one hand, there’s your money. You like your money. One can even say that you’re attached to it. And nothing we say is going to make much of a difference, because our impartiality is tainted by the fact that we’re talking to you from the back cover of the actual book.
DON'T YELL "CHALLAH!" IN A CROWDED MATZAH BAKERY
From cleaning electrical outlets with a paper clip to cooking elaborate dishes with no ingredients to telling your kids the story of Passover in a language they understand when they have taken great pains to ask you the Mah Nishtanah in a language neither of you understands, humor columnist Mordechai Schmutter turns the most stressful points of Passover into its funniest points.