It's colorless. It's offensively lumpy. And it often sits suspended in a broth of murky "gel." "It may taste like cat food, but that's why I love it,'' Peter Shelsky, one of the co-owners of Shelsky's ...

Gefilte Fish is a dish made from a poached seasoned ground fish and served as an appetizer in Ashkenazi Jewish households, most traditionally during Passover. John has a passion for all things related ...

This is the second post in a series by Johnna Kaplan exploring aspects of Jewish life outside of her own experience. I have always been wary of Gefilte fish. It’s fish, but not quite. It lurks in jars ...

Gefilte fish is at once the zenith and nadir of Ashkenazic cookery: Is there any other dish that so typifies its extraordinary resourcefulness in the Old World and its long decline in the New? Gefilte ...

When she was a child, she remembers the carp swimming in the bathtub – that’s where fresh fish lived before it was time to cook them – and having homemade gefilte fish for Shabbat every week. “I have ...

As a young person, I, like any number of Jewish children, received an early lesson on mortality and heartbreak from a book called “The Carp in the Bathtub.” Published in 1972, the book, written by ...

This story is part of Salon Food’s “In Defense Of…” series, which is a collection of commentary, personal essays, and reporting about foods we love that are controversial, unfairly maligned or could ...

For decades, Wulf’s Fish has helped home cooks keep the gefilte fish tradition alive with expert guidance and premium seafood. Enid Cherenson’s family has been buying seafood from Wulf’s Fish for 40 ...

This article originally appeared on The Nosher, 70 Faces Media’s Jewish food site. Some see gefilte fish as a delicacy, others as something too disgusting to contemplate. Either way, it would probably ...

(RNS) — The much-maligned Passover appetizer has come to epitomize the gastronomic experience of the shtetl, or ancestral towns of many Jews of Eastern European origin. (RNS) — When Jews gather around ...

It may be a grey blob, but it's a lovable grey blob. It’s colorless. It’s offensively lumpy. And it often sits suspended in a broth of murky “gel.” "It may taste like cat food, but that's why I love ...