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 ...

Gefilte fish has a special place in Jewish cooking and tradition as a misunderstood but delicious treat. Jewish cooking guru Joan Nathan cooks a homemade batch of gefilte fish with Jacki Lyden. Right ...

Passover can be a holiday of enormous angst when so much gravitas has been lavished upon gathering recipes, scouring pots, dragging chairs upstairs and, for many, extensive cleaning. Think operation ...

An undated photo of homemade gefilte fish, simmered in a vegetable court-bouillon, March 20, 2016. It’s worth making the real thing at home, which bears little resemblance to the stuff sold in jars.

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 ...

There are two variations of this dish, or rather two different recipes. I vaguely remember eating both growing up, but have never prepared them myself. The recipes have been passed on to my mother and ...

NEW HAVEN — I can still see my late, old world Jewish Grandma Molly Zaretsky balancing a huge bowl on her lap at the table in the 1960s kitchen of my grandparents’ modest bungalow on Jersey Avenue on ...