Special Feature: Jewish Holiday Cooking

Are you hosting the next big holiday dinner? The City Cook has advice from experts in Jewish cooking and baking plus recipes and tips for buying traditional and kosher ingrdients.

Podcasts

Jewish Home Cooking with Arthur Schwartz
In his wonderful new cookbook, Arthur Schwartz brings us favorite Yiddish recipes and the traditions of Eastern European food.

Cooking For Passover
Arthur Schwartz, author of Jewish Home Cooking, talked with us about the recipes, meaning and nostalgia of cooking for Passover.

Baking for The Jewish Holidays
Claire Sauerhoff, owner of The Exceptional Brownie, talks with us about the traditions of sweets and baking for the Jewish holidays.

Book Review

Cookbook Review: Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking
Arthur Schwartz's inspiring and accessible homage to Eastern European Jewish food. With this cookbook you'll make your best ever Passover dinner

Articles

Cooking For Passover
New ideas, menus and sources for this year's Passover meals.

Passover In New York
Cooking and shopping tips for Passover.

What's in Season: Shmura Matzoh for Passover
Matzoh hand-made in a dwindling number of Brooklyn bakeries, all under rabbinical supervision for Passover. Put your order in early.

Cooking for Hanukkah
Fried potato pancakes as a metaphor for independence and endurance.

Recipes

Salmon Gefilte Fish
A Passover tradition made with fresh and smoked salmon.

Chicken Soup
From Soup, A Way of Life, by Barbara Kafka.

2nd Avenue Deli's Matzo Balls
From Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking. He solves the mystery of how to make a consistently perfect matzo ball.

Honey Cake
For Rosh Hashanah or any time of year.

Passover Apple Cake
From Claire Sauerhoff and her excellent bakery, The Exceptional Brownie, a cake that looks as good as it tastes.

The Exceptional Passover Brownie
From The Exceptional Brownie, a New York-based kosher bakery that won a national competition for "the best darn brownie." This one is for Passover.