It may be a grey blob, but it's a lovable grey blob. It’s colorless. It’s offensively lumpy. And it often sits suspended in a broth of murky “gel.” "It may taste like cat food, but that's why I love ...

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Beth Heinsohn, the descendant of Connecticut WASPs and an Episcopalian-turned-Jew by choice, is an ambitious home cook who raised an adventurous eater and budding chef in her son, Jack Cohen. So when ...

Gefilte fish is at once the zenith and nadir of Ashkenazic cookery: Is there any other dish that so typifies its extraordinary resourcefulness in the Old World and its long decline in the New? Gefilte ...

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.

Gefilte fish can be a hard sell even in its standard savory form. But some European Jews like it sweet, a preference that, surprisingly, overlaps... Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is a day when ...

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This is the second post in a series by Johnna Kaplan exploring aspects of Jewish life outside of her own experience. I have always been wary of Gefilte fish. It’s fish, but not quite. It lurks in jars ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fish sticks with tartar sauce. Fried shrimp with cocktail sauce. That was the extent of my fish dining experience until I hit my sophomore year of college.

Chris Mohr, Ph.D., R.D. Long associated with Jewish holiday dinners, like Rosh Hashanah and Passover, gefilte fish has gotten a bad rap. The Eastern European delicacy of ground fish went from ...

First, a confession: I've never liked gefilte fish. The slimy, grey balls of fish from a jar have always struck me as icky. Turns out, I am not alone. "I had the same experience as you. I never ate ...