Beth Heinsohn, the descendant of Connecticut WASPs and an Episcopalian-turned-Jew by choice, is an ambitious home cook who raised an adventurous eater and budding chef in her son, Jack Cohen. So when ...

It may be a grey blob, but it's a lovable grey blob. 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 ...

Gefilte fish is at once the zenith and nadir of Ashkenazic cookery: Is there any other dish that so typifies its extraordinary resourcefulness in the Old World and its long decline in the New? Gefilte ...

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This is the second post in a series by Johnna Kaplan exploring aspects of Jewish life outside of her own experience. I have always been wary of Gefilte fish. It’s fish, but not quite. It lurks in jars ...

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 probably ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Jenni Levy was growing up in New York, her grandparents lived nearby. That meant come Jewish holidays, Levy always would enjoy her grandmother’s homemade gefilte fish — a mixture of finely ground ...

It can strike fear in the hearts of the uninitiated and, truth be told, does not get a terribly warm reception from many of the faithful. It is gefilte fish, and as Jews finish up the first half of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fish sticks with tartar sauce. Fried shrimp with cocktail sauce. That was the extent of my fish dining experience until I hit my sophomore year of college.

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 ...