Jewish Soul Food: Traditional Fare and What It Means

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Jewish traditional foods often have symbolic meanings. A Passover matzo is a taste of Egyptian slavery. The Hanukkah latke reminds us of the little jug of oil that burned, miraculously, for eight nights. Noshing hamentaschen at Purim, we remember the villain Haman, and his thwarted plan to destroy the Jews. Even more than in the synagogue, Jewish life takes place around the dining table. Jewish sages compare the dining table to an altar, and that isn’t an exaggeration. Jewish meals are ceremonies and celebrations that forge a pathway between body and soul. In this unique cookbook, Carol Ungar links the cultural and religious symbolism of Jewish foods to more than one hundred recipes drawn from international Jewish cultures and traditions. She offers easy-to-follow recipes for Shabbat meals and all the Jewish holidays, from Rosh Hashana to the nine days before Tisha b’Av, along with fascinating briefs on how many Jewish foods―challah, kreplach, farfel, and more―express core Jewish beliefs. With ingredients that can be found in any supermarket, and recipes adapted for the time- and health-conscious cook, this volume is for anyone who wishes to flavor Shabbat and holiday meals with Jewish soul. Cover Title Page Contents Preface: Kitchen Alchemy — A Life at the Table Acknowledgments 1 | Shabbat Wine Homemade Sweet Red Wine Challah Three-Braid Challah Single Challah Six-Braid Challah Vav Challah Yud Bais Challah Challah Kugel Baked Garlic Is for Lovers Friday Night Doctored-Up Gefilte Fish Homemade Chrain Made Easy Asian Fusion Fish Spiritual Chicken Soup for the Frugal Meat Pie Pot Roast à la Molly Goldberg Curried Chicken for the Shabbat Fabulous Farfel Sweet-and-Sour Red Cabbage Apple and Plum Compote Shabbat Morning Breakfast Kubaneh Yemenite Grated Tomato Dip Eyer Kichel Magical Marvelous Marble Cake Shabbat Lunch Eggs and Onions Batya’s Chopped Liver Cholent Sephardi Cholent Shalom Bayit Kugel Third Meal Rabbi Freifeld’s Pickled Herring Sardine Salad Sweet-and-Sour Cucumber Salad Melaveh Malka Bagels 2 | Holidays Rosh Hashana Homemade Gefilte Fish Black-Eyed Peas for the New Year Rosh Hashana Leek Latkes Gourd Pancakes Green, Green Rosh Hashana Latkes Baked Apples with Honey Round Challah Crown Challah Shofar Challah Scales of Justice Challah Indian Jewish Rosh Hashana Apple Confit Quince Compote Carrot Tzimmes Tongue for the New Year Batya’s Sweet Rosh Hashana Chicken Liver Sauté Wine-Poached Pears Teiglach Yom Kippur Bird Challah Classic Kreplach Honey Cake Sukkoth One Two Three Bread Frankfurter Goulash Tomato Soup Mandelbrot Unstuffed Cabbage Pistou Hoshana Rabbah Cabbage Soup Hand Challah Shmini Atzeret Old-Fashioned Chicken Soup with a Whole Chicken Glingl Blintzes Baked with Batya’s Fresh Tomato Sauce Simchat Torah Torah Scroll Challah Hungarian Stuffed Cabbage Hanukkah Buckwheat Pancakes for Hanukkah Latkes Moroccan Hanukkah Doughnuts Persian Potato Latkes Persian Herbed Omelet Israeli Hanukkah Doughnuts Judith’s Lasagna Heavenly Cheese Latkes Menorah-Shaped Challah Anglo-Jewish Gefilte Fish Balls Gribenes and Schmaltz Shabbat Shira Ruota di Faraone Deboned Chicken Thighs Stuffed with Kasha Tu Bishvat Etrog Confit Purim: Shabbat Parshat Zachor Apple Kugel Mehl Kugel Lokshen Kugel Kartofl Kugel Purim Hamentaschen Mohn Filling Lekvar Hungarian Purim Kindl Haman’s Ears Haman’s Fleas Fish Challah Ojos de Haman Challah Haman’s Noose Hamentasch Challah Chickpeas for Purim Kreplach for Purim Haman’s Hair: Purim Pasta Salad Galicianer Stuffed Cabbage for Purim Turkey Roast Passover DIY Matzo The Seder Plate Ashkenazi Haroseth Persian Haroseth Iraqi Haroseth Seder Night Hard-BoiledEggs Firm Matzo Balls Knaidlach with a Neshoma Fluffy Knaidlach Chicken Balls Tongue for Second Day of Passover Intergeshlugenah Borscht Homemade Borscht Matzo Layer Cake Matzo Brei Matzo Coffee Quajado Mufleta Key Challah Lag b’Omer Bar Yochai Carob Fudge Bars Tinted Eggs Shavuot Heavenly Challot for Shavuot Four-Poled Shnei Lehem Siete Cielos Challah Ten Commandments Challah Ladder Challah David’s Harp Challah Cheese Kreplach for Shavuot Blintzes Rochelle’s Cheesecake Tisha b’Av Rice and Lentil Pilaf Mama’s Mamaliga Cabbage Noodles Existential Lentil Soup 3 | Life Cycle Events Shalom Zachor Wedding Jerusalem Wedding Beigel Grape-Cluster Challah Moroccan Wedding Fish Bar Mitzvahs and Other Celebrations Tefillin Cake Yerushalmi Kugel Bibliography Index