Passover Palate

Recipes, feature stories, product reviews and lots of coupons to help you prepare for your seder.

The Men o’  Manischewitz

Passover’s biggest tastemakers are trying something new.

By:

Melissa Jacobs, Jewish Exponent Feature

Pre-Passover is not the ideal time to chat with the CEO of Manischewitz. He’s a bit busy preparing for the Thanksgiving of the kosher foods world. According to the trade publication, Kosher Food Today, 40 percent of the industry’s $305,000,000,000 (yes, that’s billion)in annual sales happen around Passover. This year, as in the past several, the competition for those holiday...

Recipes

Serving up a Meatball

Recipes designed to make it easy for you to hit a Pesadichah home run.

Variety is the spice of life, and Passover meals need more spice than those of any other holiday, due to both its length and restrictions. Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek, the co-authors of the new cookbook, Passover Made Easy , obviously feel the same way: their collection of recipes spans the globe to help you keep Passover — and keep...

Recipes

A Slice  of Unleaven

Pesadichah cream puffs? Yes, please!

Dessert during Passover is just one of the many things you need to plan for in advance if you want to offer something other than fresh fruit. That's why we were so happy to have Inside the Jewish Bakery: Recipes and Memories from the Golden Age of Jewish Baking , by Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg, cross our desk. It...

Food

Nacho Typical Seder

Adding a Mexican flair to Passover

By:

Greg Salisbury

Tim Spinner and Brian Sirhal want you to think trilingually this Pesach. In addition to English and Hebrew, they want you to brush up on your Spanish phrases like “salmon tostada,” “red chile-matzah ball soup,” “brisket tacos” and “fresh berry pavlova.” OK, so the pavlova is actually Antipodean in origin and was created in honor of legendary Russian ballerina Anna...

Tradition

Fresh Heirlooms

Creators of Judaica reveal their inspirations

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Melissa Jacobs

S etting the seder table with her mother is one of Joy Stember’s cherished childhood memories. Before their Melrose Park home became filled with friends, laughter and prayers, Stember and her mother had their own ritual. “For place settings, we used my grandmother’s fine china with gold edging, which we only used at Passover and Rosh Hashanah,” Stember says. “Then...

Learning

Prophet Motives

Why do we celebrate Elijah at Passover?

By:

Melissa Jacobs

At seders around the world, millions of cups of wine are poured in honor of one man: Elijah. Why is Elijah the Prophet part of the seder when he lived centuries after the Exodus?