Ruth Goldstein
I write opinion pieces for the Baltimore Sun, personal essays, and plant-based food stories that connect me to my roots.
Recent Posts
Wacky Cake
Serves 8-10, or 10-12 as a layer cake Wacky Cake, with its host of pseudonyms—Cockeyed Cake, Crazy Cake, Three-Hole Cake, War Cake—is an invention of the 1940s, when war rationing limited the use of butter, eggs and milk. That’s a good thing for today’s...
The sleeper spy they forgot to wake up
By RUTH GOLDSTEIN FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN |NOV 18, 2019 I think I might be a sleeper spy someone forgot to wake up. By Fox News standards, I’m basically a Dreamer: My parents came from Canada and my grandparents (all four) emigrated from Ukraine when it was still part...
Finding a silver lining in a pandemic | COMMENTARY
By RUTH GOLDSTEIN FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN |OCT 23, 2020 In a conventional war, if you know where the enemy is you know where to take a stand. Famous front lines have even gone down in history — Gettysburg, Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge. This war against the...
Terminally ill people should have the right to choose when they die | COMMENTARY
By RUTH GOLDSTEIN FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN |JAN 22, 2020 While there is universal agreement among members of a free society that everyone deserves a dignified life, the right to a dignified death is not yet guaranteed for every Maryland citizen. That might be...