When I saw this thread I got so excited. My favorite food is chulent it is really really good! I could eat it everyday. The school where I teach (a boys school) gives chulent out as a prize to the kids and they love it.
-Kapusta the way chulent came into being is that the Tzidokim believed in only Torah shbichsav and they held that you can’t have a fire burning on Shabbos so the Chachamim said that we should eat something hot on Shabbos so that we show we are not like them. In poland and Russia they had a lot of potatoes and…….thats where chulent came from!
People think it’s strange that I am a girl and I love chulent but I don’t see that as a contridiction