Last Updated on November 18, 2021

Food corner: traditional festival recipes, popular Israeli food and fun facts.

The Easter European (Ashkenazi) kitchen and the Middle Eastern and North African (Sephardi) kitchens offer a taste sensation that ranges from sweet to savory, spicy and sometimes even a little bland.  Some festival foods have no borders and they are eaten by all Jews around the world.  Here are some of out favorites.

Rosh Hashanah Recipes

• Apples and honey and everything sweet
• Apple Challah recipe

Sukkot

Jews would bring baskets of fruit and other delicacies to the Temple in Jerusalem during Sukkot. We commemorate this by eating similar kinds of food.

Hannukah

It is traditional to eat foods that have been deep fried; latkes, fritters and jam donuts.

Tu B’Shevat

• We mark the festival of Tu B’Shevat with a special Seder meal.  We eat fruits particularly those mentioned in the Torah; grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates

Purim

It is traditional to eat Oznei Haman (English: Haman’s Eears) on Purim filled with poppy seed, nuts, dates, halva and anything else you can think of.

Pesach

Pesach recipes – forbidden foods and no leavening agents

Yom Ha’Atzmaut

• Recipes for special moments around the family barbecue
• How to tell when your steak is ready and has been cooked to perfection

Shavuot

• Traditionally dairy foods are eaten on Shavuot; soups, dips, pasta, quiche, cheesecakes and blintzes 
• Popular varieties of local Israeli cheeses
• Cheese cake recipes
• Famous chefs
• Super soups
• Delicious dessert

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• Is there a national food? Some popular foods and drink.
• Herbs and spices of the Israeli and Mediterranean kitchen.
• Know local beef cuts
• Fabulous fish
• Perfect couscous
• Shakshuka – the Israeli way

End your meal with black coffee – ‘Botz’, ‘Kafe Shachor’,  ‘Kafe Turki’, with or without cardamom – brewed coffee