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 ...

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 ...

This story is part of Salon Food’s “In Defense Of…” series, which is a collection of commentary, personal essays, and reporting about foods we love that are controversial, unfairly maligned or could ...

As Passover nears, there is a crisis of gefilte fish, a staple at many Seders. The Jewish delicacy is made up of ground fish, often carp. In Israel, mostly Asian carp is used to make gefilte fish, and ...

As a young person, I, like any number of Jewish children, received an early lesson on mortality and heartbreak from a book called “The Carp in the Bathtub.” Published in 1972, the book, written by ...

Ah, April in Southern California. Long, sunny days, bright yellow daffodils, fresh seafood, bountiful herbs and also the inevitable: no, not taxes, for which you can get an extension, but an oblong ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. One email sent by Hillary Clinton, from the pile of 7,000 released on ...

(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 ...

On January 25, 1991, in an article titled ‘With Apologies,’ Philologos answered a letter asking about the phonetic similarity of English and Hebrew pronouns. Explaining how these and other ...