In these days of busy schedules and overprogrammed lives, what does “daily cooking” look like? Too often—whether the kitchen belongs to a couple of empty

In my house, mishloah manot—festive packages of food exchanged between friends and family on Purim—were a simple, homespun affair. We would pile stacks of waffle-edged, floppy

“I eat Chinese food on Christmas/ Go to the movie theater, too/ ’Cause there just ain’t much else to do on Christmas/ When you’re a

On a chilly day last winter, Joan Nathan was testing recipes for her latest cookbook,Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France (Knopf),

When it comes to the Rosh Hashana table, honey, in all its burnished-amber stickiness, tends to steal the spotlight. Tradition calls for honey as a

I love Shavuot, the springtime holiday also known as the Festival of Weeks, which marks the end of a seven-week period following Passover and celebrates

Hadassah cookbooks are time capsules that shed light on the ways various chapters reacted to social movements.

There’s no way around it: Preparing for Thanksgiving is a time-consuming affair, with the turkey taking up not only hours and energy but oven space