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Gribenes

Gribenes or grieven is a dish consisting of crisp chicken or goose skin cracklings with fried onions. The word gribenes is related to the German Griebe (plural Grieben) meaning "piece of fat, crackling" (from the Old High German griobo via the Middle High German griebe), where Griebenschmalz is schmaltz from which the cracklings have not been removed. A favored food in the past among Ashkenazi Jews, gribenes appears in Jewish stories and parables, for example in the work of the Hebrew poet Chaim Nachman Bialik. As with other cracklings, gribenes are a byproduct of rendering animal fat to produce cooking fat, in this case kosher schmaltz.

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