Joan Nathan is synonymous with Jewish cooking. The award-winning food writer and cookbook author has written for a range of publications, including The New York Times, hosted her own PBS cooking show, ...

The highlight of a Passover seder is undoubtedly matzo ball soup, which consists of round, boiled dumplings made of matzo meal served in a seasoned chicken broth. While some people might prefer matzo ...

Having a Jewish husband, I've made many matzo ball soups, and not always on Passover (which started yesterday and goes till April 2). My son, for one, loves it all year. At the birthday dinner parties ...

It wasn’t until recently that San Francisco cookbook author Micah Siva decided to replace the usual, salty matzo ball mix with fresh herbs and spices, she writes in her new cookbook, “Nosh: ...

1. To make matzo balls, whisk together the eggs and oil in a medium bowl until blended. Mix in matzo meal and salt. Add club soda and blend well. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour. Can be prepared ...

There are a couple of tricks to making matzo balls that are light. Zimand uses one, mixing a little bit of soda water into the matzo meal, egg and fat. I was dubious that this method would work - it ...

Three matzah ball recipes. One, from Joshua Marcus (Chow Down Grill, Josh’s Deli & Appetizing), uses duck schmaltz and ginger beer (“I own an Asian restaurant so the ginger beer and duck schmaltz ...

“If chicken soup is Jewish penicillin, then matzo ball soup is the key to world peace,” writes Jewish author Micah Siva in her debut cookbook, “Nosh: Plant-Forward Recipes Celebrating Modern Jewish ...

No book has informed my Jewish cooking more than Joan Nathan’s “Jewish Holiday Kitchen.” Her recipe inspires my matzoh ball recipe here in “Koshersoul.” I prefer schmaltz to vegetable oil, but if you ...

As a Chinese-Jewish food writer, I can be a bit puritanical about my peoples’ foods. If you were to sit down with me for xiaolongbao, thin-skinned Shanghainese soup dumplings jiggling with molten ...