As if preparing for Passover wasn’t enough work and worry, now comes a gefilte fish crisis. This might not be as consequential as, say, the Atlantic cod crisis. But for the diminishing few of us who ...

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Everyone has their favorite Seder foods. It's probably not the unappetizing ready-to-serve gefilte fish from a jar. In the Old Country, housewives chopped the flesh of fresh fish with onions, matzo ...

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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 ...

fish from scratch for the first time ever.

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 ...

“Homemade gefilte fish became such a staple for me at the Rosh Hashanah table that when my grandmother stopped cooking and the local deli closed, I began preparing the holiday delicacy for my whole ...

When we think of gefilte fish–if we think of it at all–it's a jar of poached patties, suspended in goo. Maybe, if we're lucky, a homemade version of the same. But the Yiddish word gefilte doesn't mean ...

On Thursday, the day before the annual ritual of our Seder, I celebrate what has become another annual ritual: our “gefilte fish-in.” A group of five friends arrives at my doorstep at my home, bearing ...

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 it,'' Peter Shelsky, one of the co-owners of Shelsky's ...