If anything betrays my Ashkenazi Jewish heritage—besides the Casper-the-friendly-ghost-like skin tone—it’s my love of fishy fish. Heaven is a bowl of creamed herring and onions. Ditto whitefish salad.

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 ...

Wikimedia Commons A platter of homemade gefilte fish. Tuesday Monday night marks the beginning of Passover, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the exodus from Egypt with a superlong meal interspersed ...

As if preparing for Passover wasn’t enough work and worry, now comes a gefilte fish crisis. This might not be as consequential as, say, the Atlantic cod crisis. But for the diminishing few of us who ...

Everyone has their favorite Seder foods. It's probably not the unappetizing ready-to-serve gefilte fish from a jar. In the Old Country, housewives chopped the flesh of fresh fish with onions, matzo ...

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 ...

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