A s a Jewish New Yorker, food is always top of mind—at home, it revolves around cooking and preparing for the next Shabbat or holiday meal, and on the streets of New York City, ...

As such, extended family members and friends typically provide tons of food for the mourners, oftentimes enough to last the entire seven days of shiva. The most commonplace Jewish foods at a ...

These recipes have shaped the foods that American Jews have eaten, guiding what scholars call "vernacular religion," or religion as it is lived. Jewish American cookbooks across the 20th century ...