Food

The latest news about Jewish food, food trends, kosher food, and more from around the Jewish world.

Matzahs travel on the production line of the Tiferet HaMatzot factory in Dnepro, Ukraine on Dec. 8, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Jews in the former Soviet Union eat pounds of matzah per person — the most in the world — every year. Here’s why.

The Passover food, which used to be unavailable under communism, was for many the only link to their people’s faith and culture.

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 26, 2021 12:46 pm

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A Brexit Passover food shortage is forcing the Jews of Ireland and Northern Ireland to work together

“Before, we very seldom cooperated on much — if anything at all,” said the head of Ireland’s Jewish Representative Council.

March 24, 2021 3:34 pm

The average age of volunteers at this food pantry was 89. Then the pandemic arrived.

More New Yorkers than ever were struggling to pay for food — and the volunteers had to stay home.

March 22, 2021 3:26 pm

These restaurants around the US offer Passover meal delivery

By Rachel Ringler March 19, 2021 2:54 pm

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Soup Nazi Kitchen restaurant name provokes anger — and vandalism — in Washington state city

By Gabe Friedman March 18, 2021 12:53 pm

Doug Emhoff wanted to tout the benefits of the stimulus package for small businesses. He chose a Jewish bagel joint.

By Ron Kampeas March 17, 2021 2:39 pm

From matzah tortillas to spicy gefilte fish, Passover food in Mexico is a mashup of cultures

By Sybil Sanchez Kessler March 15, 2021 10:07 am

Fusing African and Jewish cuisines, Richmond’s JewFro restaurant was inspired by the George Floyd protest movement

By Sean Durns March 15, 2021 10:00 am

Eisenberg’s deli, NYC institution since 1929, closes indefinitely

By Gabe Friedman March 12, 2021 10:17 am

Rabbi Mordechai Willig, left, executes the 2015 sale of hametz to John Brown, right. Brown died this year after decades of buying hametz from thousands of American Jews each year before Passover. (Josh Weinberg/screen shot from YouTube)

For over 40 years, this man bought millions of dollars of New York’s leavened bread products before Passover

By Ben Sales March 11, 2021 4:31 pm

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