Like many of the Jewish holidays, the eight-day celebration of Passover (Pesach) is rooted in symbolic foods and culinary ...

Come sundown every Friday night, Jewish families and friends sit down together to celebrate and break bread. It's the start of Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath. Food writer, Faith Kramer, shares recipes ...

Let’s be honest, gefilte fish has a bad rap. Amid the many delicacies of traditional Jewish holiday foods—matzoh ball soup, brisket, honey cake—the humble gefilte fish is often left stranded and ...

For anyone who has joined a Passover seder, the maror (horseradish) is a love-it-or-hate-it item. Here's how to up the ante, if you dare.

Long before gefilte fish was jarred in its own jellied aspic and sold on supermarket shelves, it was a labor-intensive dish prepared at home in accordance with Ashkenazi tradition. Co-owners Jeffrey ...

2 small carrots, peeled; 1 sliced thin, 1 cut in chunks 1 small parsnip, peeled, cut in chunks Chill the fish and vegetables. Place the onion, the carrot cut in chunks, and the parsnip in a food ...

Here’s a Jewish paradox: Passover celebrates freedom, so why force people to eat gefilte fish? Some people like it, I understand. But for most dinner guests, especially those new to the sight of ...

When she was a child, she remembers the carp swimming in the bathtub – that’s where fresh fish lived before it was time to cook them – and having homemade gefilte fish for Shabbat every week. “I have ...