Cookbook author Adeena Sussman makes Dilly Chicken and Rice Soup from her book Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours. Cooking chicken soup for the Shabbat soul TEL AVIV, Israel — It's ...

People love to ask, “what did you grow up eating?” Having a professional food writer for a mother makes this a particularly complicated question to answer. Yes, I grew up eating amazing homemade food.

The way I always saw it, Shabbos dinner was a meal with a sizable reputation to uphold. It had to be not only festive, but also massive. When I was a kid, weekday dinner would involve a main dish, a ...

(RNS) — With her latest book, she turns back to her roots in a Modern Orthodox home where her mother cooked dishes typical of the Ashkenazi tradition. (RNS) — Ashkenazi food, the kind prepared by Jews ...

Some recipes simply remind you of home. One bite of my mother’s challah, kugel, or cake and I am instantly back in Brooklyn, sitting in my mom’s kitchen watching her prep for Shabbat. Growing up, my ...

Personally, after a month of holidays, I feel the need to lighten up the meals and drop off some of that extra weight. One statistic claims that the average Israeli manages to gain 2.5 kilo (5 lbs.) ...

Tel Aviv cook Adeena Sussman offers this very appealing chicken thigh dish, baked with figs and grapes, in her book, "Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from my Table to Yours." She leaves fresh figs whole ...

Though it has a Yiddish origin, "nosh" is used enough in English slang that most tend to understand the implications. It's a snack, but it's more than that: It's food served with love. "Noshing is a ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — It's Friday morning, and Jewish culinary guru Adeena Sussman is wheeling home a cart of vegetables from the Carmel Market for a weekend cooking ritual she recommends to everyone.