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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of the Settlement Cook Book By Nora L. Rubel Columbia University Press, 232 pages, $28 ...

Gefilte fish can be made from fresh fish or frozen fillets. It's sold in jars at the supermarket. Turns out, there's one more version. It might... This story was first published April 17,2019, and has ...

(JTA) — This article originally appeared on The Nosher, 70 Faces Media’s Jewish food site. Some see gefilte fish as a delicacy, others as something too disgusting to contemplate. Either way, it would ...

NEW YORK — Got a live carp in your bathtub? Planning on losing a day to food prep for the October Jewish holidays? We don’t think so, and neither do Jeffrey Yoskowitz and Liz Alpern. They’re the ...

Enid Cherenson’s family has been buying seafood from Wulf’s Fish for 40 years. Originally an iconic fish store in the Jewish district of Brookline, Massachusetts, Wulf’s Fish transitioned about a ...