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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Rebecca Flint Marx is the former editor of Eater at Home. Her areas of expertise include home cooking and ...

On the Passover Seder table, there are few foods more reviled than gefilte fish. Burdened with the nickname “filthy fish” and typically sourced from glass jars where it’s suspended in a viscous, ...

1 (7-pound) whole salmon, cleaned, filleted, skinned; head, skin and bones reserved 6 medium onions, quartered 2 1/2 tablespoons coarse salt 1 1/2 teaspoons white pepper 5 large eggs 1/4 cup 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 ...

It’s been part of the Eastern European Jewish diet for hundreds of years, but gefilte fish didn’t start out as a Jewish food. We queried a number of high-profile Jewish chefs about which dishes and ...