If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Rebecca Flint Marx is the former editor of Eater at Home. Her areas of expertise include home cooking and ...

Let’s be honest, gefilte fish has a bad rap. Amid the many delicacies of traditional Jewish holiday foods—matzoh ball soup, brisket, honey cake—the humble gefilte fish is often left stranded and ...

The two cornerstone dishes that firmly define Passover and its traditions at many seders are gefilte fish and matzah ball soup. “Gefilte” means “filled” in Yiddish; the chopped fish was served in the ...

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 ...