Jewish Joy, Kids Entertainment & Pickle Latkes with Monty Pickle & Halle Stanford

About this episode

Debra Eckerling speaks with Halle Stanford and Monty Pickle about introducing kids to the Jewish experience through entertainment.

On this episode of Taste Buds with Deb, host Debra Eckerling speaks with Halle Stanford, executive producer and co-creator of "The Monty Pickle Show" and Monty Pickle himself. A kosher dill with a lot of personality, Monty Pickle is the first-ever series aimed at introducing kids to the Jewish experience and Jewish joy. Monty's YouTube channel has videos of him performing the new Hanukkah song "8 is Great" with Kosha Dillz, as well as cooking episodes: solo and with celebrity chef Duff Goldman. "I think that kids not only love food, they love seeing how food is made," Monty says. "[They] like a little peek behind the curtain." "Monty's amazing," says Stanford, a primetime and children's Emmy award-winner, who produced content for the Jim Henson Company for more than 30 years. "What better way to introduce [children] to [the Jewish experience] than through an amazing pickle puppet." Stanford teamed up with former "Sesame Street" EP and creative director Benjamin Lehmann and world-renowned puppeteer Victor Yerrid to create Monty. They then went out and recruited colleagues from the kid's content world, including Emmy-nominated children's TV showrunner and writer Elise Allen, Emmy…

People in this episode

Host: Debra Eckerling

Guests: Halle Stanford, Monty Pickle

Topics covered

• Jewish experience
• children's entertainment
• food
• puppetry
• Hanukkah

Keywords

• Jewish joy
• kids entertainment
• pickle latkes
• Monty Pickle
• Hanukkah song

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Monty Pickle Show, Kosha Dillz

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