What’s so special about matzo? After all, it’s nothing more than flour and water baked to a cracker-like thinness. Not especially digestible either, especially after eating it as the default bread for the entire week of Passover when chametz (leavened or risen bread and leavened products) are forbidden. Related Matzo Brei With Fresh Herbs and…
Matzo Brei (rhymes with “fry”), literally fried matzo, is the most beloved of Passover week traditions, the centerpiece of a simple brunch or breakfast: softened matzo, usually with egg beaten into it, fried in hot fat. This mixture may be scrambled, formed into little pancakes or cooked like an omelet. I have eaten it in…
At the Hesed Shaarei Tzion social welfare center in Odessa, Ukraine, elderly Jews gathered April 20 to compete in a Passover-themed cooking competition— an Iron Chef-type event with matzo as the main ingredient. Hesed Shaarei Tzion, which is sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, provides social services and Jewish cultural fare to needy…
Last week, Dish told you about The Matzo Project, a new artisanal-matzo brand from two Brooklyn pals. Now, the same duo’s behind — wait for it — matzo ice cream. The Land of Milk and Honey is Ample Hills Creamery salted honey ice cream paired with The Matzo Project’s cinnamon-bun matzo buttercrunch, which mixes white…
Only the most beautiful matzo in the world could have compelled me to stop greeting my Passover guests and instead go grab my camera and set up a photo shoot, just as friends and family were arriving for our Seder Friday night. But when Chelsea Miller — dear friend, former babysitter for our boys and…
I owe my family a batch of macaroons. My son Teddy and his friend Halle were hovering in the kitchen when I took these beauties out of the oven, scarfing the leftover chocolate chips and giggling conspiratorially, as they always do when they’re together. I was making the classic Passover cookies in preparation for a…
Alternative Passover haggadahs seem to multiply every year, but there’s only one that asks “Was the Burning Bush a burning bowl?” and “Were the High Priests high?” Welcome to the Cannabis Passover Haggadah from Le’Or (“to the light”), a social justice nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon, dedicated to “illuminating Jewish perspectives on drug policy reform.”…
If you’re like some of us, you can be, um, spontaneous about Passover dining decisions. Luckily, you can still dash into two NYC locations for flourless items like macaroons, chocolate chip cookies, matzo quiche and salads. And if you’re truly indecisive, kosher-restaurant group Prime Hospitality is hosting Seders at two of its NYC eateries. Prime…
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