Saturday night, the first night of Passover this year, will mark our 100th family Seder. When we were married just one year, my husband Marvin and I decided to observe the first two Seder nights of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Enid Cherenson’s family has been buying seafood from Wulf’s Fish for 40 years. Originally an iconic fish store in the Jewish district of Brookline, Massachusetts, Wulf’s Fish transitioned about a ...
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 ...
Every year just before Rosh Hashanah, my mother and I engage in a ritual attempt to approximate my grandmother’s gefilte fish recipe. The recipe itself is an approximation. She cobbled it together ...