Growing up in an Ashkenazi Jewish American household in the Midwest during the ’80s and ’90s, my earliest Passover memories are not of the story of Exodus but the reality of gefilte fish. It was matzo ...

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 ...

The two cornerstone dishes that firmly define Passover and its traditions at many seders are gefilte fish and matzah ball soup. “Gefilte” means “filled” in Yiddish; the chopped fish was served in the ...

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 ...

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 ...