Seltzertopia has always sold well in Boston, often landing as #3, yet in all these years I have never been invited to speak in the region. That is, until now.

A week ago the Sisterhood of Temple Emunah, in Lexington, invited me in for an afternoon event. I was thrilled to finally bring my spiel to eastern Massachusetts, albeit remote (as I have spoken in Great Barrington twice).

It was a lovely crowd and you can watch the full presentation below.

At the beginning of all of my talks I always invite the audience to share (in the text chat) what questions they are bringing into the room. The ones I don’t answer over the next hour (and I do answer most) I invite them to ask at the end during the Q&A. I thought this collection below was quite lovely and might be of interest to some to review. Most are questions I get, again and again, regardless of the location of the talk or the audience. Curiosity about seltzer is a constant.

• recipes other than egg cream
• most popular flavor of seltzer
• What happened to the bottles with the spray top?
• What happened to the old bottles with the spray
• History of seltzer
• What’s the Jewish angle on seltzer?
• Where and when did seltzer originate in Jewish culture
• why seltzer is fizzier than regular soda
• any relationship to Perrier and other naturally carbonated water
• Looking forward to hearing the history of history, why it’s such a Jewish drink
• stories, how it got started
• the increased popularity of seltzer the past few years
• Is the seltzer popular in Europe?
• Why seltzer was something limited to the NYC
• I remember making seltzer at home with carbon dioxide canisters but what is the equipment you need to make it other than that?
• is seltzer that is in a can of bottle really seltzer? or does real seltzer have to come from a siphon.
• History of seltzer delivery and when the seltzer man stopped coming door to door?
• There was a seltzer factory at the top of my street in the Bronx.  It was delivered weekly.
• Love our soda stream because no plastic to recycle AND you can choose your degree of fizz.
• Don’t forget Allan Sherman’s “Seltzer Boy”
• The ‘seltzer man’ delivered bottles of seltzer to my grandparents.  He took away the empty bottles.
• My paternal grandfather was a seltzer delivery man. my father took over his route when my grandfather was killed by a drunk driver while he was doing deliveries.
• My Dad had a home made seltzer maker  in 1958.
• I once gave someone a seltzer maker as a wedding present.  It was a soda siphon with co2 cartridges, before soda stream was on the market. It turned out they got another one from someone else.  Their thank you note to me said it was great, since they could use them for
• I heard seltzer is not good for teeth enamel
• Why it’s called an egg cream?
• why did my dad (Ken’s) refer to seltzer as Vichy?
• why do the seltzer manufacturers do NOT have to list salt as one of their ingredients?
• I have a small seltzer anecdote of history and Holocaust survivors that I’d like to tell in less than a minute. And I’ll show. And hold a seltzer bottle from my Dad of 1955, that he bottled and sold throughout South Jersey
• Are there still any companies making seltzer with a spray top?

We mixed egg creams (and made a toast) and generally had a good time.