How It Got Started

My mother-in-law made chopped eggplant in a wooden bowl, using an old-fashioned chopper.

So what does an observant family eat on Shabbat? Cholent was the main dish for shabbat lunch after men returned from praying.

The recipe is my way to honor my family’s past – a small tribute to my father’s childhood and to Ernestyna Feit, a kind woman I will never k

My Iraqi mother's marak kubbeh was amazing. We loved it and fought over it.

Like everyone else, my friend's family bought Tar-Halwa for breaking the fast on Ramadan.

We are in the midst of a plague, the eleventh plague, and I can't scour grocery stores for pomegranate seeds for my charoset.

My Iranian mother joyfully whipped up all sorts of Iranian dishes in her American Kitchen.

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Dava bakes her famous Mandel bread in her kitchen in Washington, D.C.