Growing up in an Ashkenazi Jewish American household in the Midwest during the ’80s and ’90s, my earliest Passover memories are not of the story of Exodus but the reality of gefilte fish. It was matzo ...

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 ...

Last year, I was chatting with a colleague, Joe Palca, about what we did over the weekend. "I made gefilte fish," I said. "Oh, my grandmother used to make it with tuna fish," Joe said. My jaw dropped ...

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 ...

A few days ago in the middle of a conversation with Roy Choi about Spam (yes Spam) Roy made the point that Spam is one of those foods that’s very “inside” particular cultural communities. “Inside”, ...

Nutmeg Domination Most winter holiday foods are notoriously awful. Fruitcake? Nobody actually likes it. And what on earth is figgy pudding? It sounds revolting. But I’ll never understand the people ...