August 24^th 2010By Jamie Geller

August 30^th 2010By Jamie Geller

The yontif roast can provoke anxiety in even the most experienced cook but my roast guide will help you put a fabulous feast on the table without too much drama. Today we begin the journey with the kitchen tools you'll need for preparing the roast.

August 20^th 2010By Jamie Geller

I don’t know why Rosh Hashanah always takes me by surprise. Here we are, just coming off those long, lazy summer days – and we suddenly have to snap to attention. The shofar sounds, we head for shul – and we try to think “sweet.”

August 25^th 2010By Jamie Geller

Just in time for Rosh Hashanah I have three new recipes for you to try from my forthcoming cookbook, Quick & Kosher: Meals in Minutes.

September 15^th 2009By Jamie Geller

August 29^th 2010By joyofkosher

September 14^th 2009By Jamie Geller

I don't know what happened, my challah lacked texture and shape. It was a bumpy, lumpy messy blob; ballooning at astronomical speed, then falling out of shape, falling all over itself and completely breaking apart. They say that yeast is alive, but this was going beyond, into the unknown. The thing was living, breathing, multiplying—and mad at me. My heart sank watching it succumb to itself and I was powerless to stop nature. My eyes brimmed with tears...

November 30^th 2011By Jamie Geller

When our patriarch Yaakov masqueraded as Eisav to obtain his rightful "firstborn" blessing from his father, Yitzchak, he donned Eisav's cloak. Yitzchak exclaimed, "the fragrance of my son is like the fragrance of a field that G-d has blessed" and blessed Yaakov. The Talmud identifies the fragrance as an apple orchard, and the Vilna Gaon says this happened on Rosh Hashanah. We eat apples (tons of them) because we too want those holy blessings given to Yaakov.

September 9^th 2009By Jamie Geller

Will ingesting tons of honey change my fate in the coming year? Well, at least it will remind me to be a sweeter person, and maybe that will earn the blessings I need to help me along. In fact, pulling down that kind of spiritual aid is precisely the purpose of some remarkable little gastric Rosh Hashanah customs. Funny how even the foods we eat, rivet our attention to our ultimate goals.

September 7^th 2009By Felisa Billet