Moroccan carrot salad is one of the most popular salads on the Shabbat table or at a simcha. There’s a reason for that: the salad is cool, but spicy, light, yet somehow substantial. It makes your palate tingle for what comes next, which is the purpose of any good salad worth its salt. To make …

Eggs are a staple no matter who you are and where your ancestors came from unless you happen to be a “veggan” and no, that’s not a typo. If you’re Jewish, depending on where you come from, you eat eggs and onions—which is pretty much chopped liver without the liver—or shakshuka, a delectable dish of …

It’s an expression: not to make a tzimmes out of something. A Tzimmes is a traditional Jewish dish that mixes disparate ingredients that somehow manage to work together well. Since the dish has so many ingredients, it’s seen as complicated and complex. Making a tzimmes out of something means to overcomplicate a situation. When people …

Shavuos is a fun holiday in lots of ways, mostly because we get to eat dairy products at our festive meals, making for a lovely change of pace. Cheesecake and blintzes are traditional. But considering that 70 percent of Jews are lactose intolerant, one wonders why we have a holiday where we eat something that …

Once upon a time, fat was supposed to be bad for us. Today, not so much. Carbs are the new culprit. Which means we can once again enjoy schmaltz, which has fewer trans fats and more omega-3 fatty acids than a lot of vegetable oils. People on paleo diets have downright embraced schmaltz. Yup. Those …