Talk of the Table | Adventures with Gefilte Fish
When my grandmother was 16, circa 1905, she journeyed alone from Smargon (in today’s Belarus) to Ellis Island
Talk of the Table | The Satisfying Sweetness of Dates
When I need a sweet, satisfying nibble, I often pick up a date.
Talk of the Table | A Tale of Two Briskets
If you grew up in an Ashkenazi Jewish home, you might remember the delicious oven-baked brisket your mom served up for holidays.
Talk of the Table | The Bundt Is Born
In 1950, Rose Joshua and Fannie Schanfeld met with H. David Dalquist, owner of the Scandinavian cookware manufacturing company Nordic Ware, to discuss a proposal.
Talk of the Table | Meatballs Cursed by Jews
Among the pages of a medieval Middle Eastern cookbook lies a 600-year-old recipe with a title equal parts perplexing and alarming: “Meatballs Cursed by Jews.”
Talk of the Table | The Horseradish Chronicles
I slumbered eyes-open through childhood seders, bored out of my mind, wondering if that meant I was the Wicked Son, or in my case, the Wicked Daughter, who counted even less.
Talk of the Table | A Persian-Flavored Purim
This year for Purim, which begins on the evening of February 25, why not celebrate with a dish that evokes the setting of the Megillah (the story of Queen Esther) in ancient Persia?
Talk of the Table | The Great Topping Debate
Hanukkah’s great culinary divide runs right across my brother Paul Freedman’s dining room table in suburban Pelham, New York.
Talk of the Table | Fasting for Body and Soul
Eitan Okun only eats between the hours of 8 and 10 p.m., or, on days when he rides his bike, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Talk of the Table | Timeless Jewish Foods
During the coronavirus quarantine, I spent several months cooking for, and helping, my daughter Merissa in New Orleans, where she was recovering from surgery.
Talk of the Table | Rice and Beans for Passover?
Conservative rabbi Amy Levin always makes lentil soup on Passover—but never in her grandmother’s pots.
Talk of the Table | A Savory Georgian Feast
Nestled between the shores of the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, the country of Georgia is a land where different cultures