Category Celebrating the Holidays

The first of many Shabbats

photo - Faith Kramer’s Roasted Salmon with Citrus-honey Sauce

Faith Kramer’s Roasted Salmon with Citrus-honey Sauce. (photo by Clara Rice) Somehow, I missed the cookbook 52 Shabbats: Friday Night Dinners Inspired by a Global Jewish Kitchen by Faith Kramer when it was published by the Collective Book Studio in…

An alternative to honey cake

photo - Peach-blueberry cake à la Ina Garten, made by the Accidental Balabusta

Peach-blueberry cake à la Ina Garten, made by the Accidental Balabusta. (photo by Shelley Civkin) With Rosh Hashanah right around the corner, I’m already thinking of honey cake … but not honey cake. Wanting to ring in the new year…

The joys of making matzah

photo - Left to right: Joanne Belzberg, Henia Wineberg, Rabbi Yitzchok Wineberg, Arnold Silber, Tammi Kerzner and Syd Belzberg

Left to right: Joanne Belzberg, Henia Wineberg, Rabbi Yitzchok Wineberg, Arnold Silber, Tammi Kerzner and Syd Belzberg. (photo by Yaletown Photography) For more than three decades, the Model Matzah Bakery, organized by Chabad Lubavitch in British Columbia, has offered a…

Storytelling at the Pesach seder

image - “Landscape with Moses and the Burning Bush,” by Domenichino (Italian, 1581-1641), painted sometime between 1610 and 1616

“Landscape with Moses and the Burning Bush,” by Domenichino (Italian, 1581-1641), painted sometime between 1610 and 1616. The Maggid, the storytelling portion of the Haggadah, is lengthy, yet it seems to dispense with the story of the Exodus in the…

In Every Generation

This introduction appears in In Every Generation: A Haggadah Supplement for 5784, recently published by the Shalom Hartman Institute (hartman.org.il).  The injunction, “Bekhol dor vador chayav adam lir’ot et atzmo keilu hu yatzah mimitzrayim,”  “In every generation, each person is…

Tasty plant-forward recipes

photo - Chef and dietitian Micah Siva

Chef and dietitian Micah Siva’s new cookbook, NOSH: Plant-Forward Recipes Celebrating Modern Jewish Cuisine, proves that plant-forward meals can be bursting with flavour and colour. (photo by Hannah Lozano) “This is really good,” said my wife, as she tasted the…