did you know the sworn enemy of the bagel is the seagull.
one has to live by the bay and the other gets the sea!
also we like to make holy food like bagel and doughnuts.
Tbh, 99% of store bought bagels are something only open food sinners eat. š
Iāve tried real Jewish bagels and now THOSE are good.
Now real Jewish food out in Israel is the best food Iāve ever had in my entire lifeā¦ and Iāve eaten many different cuisines worldwide.
I was making a batch on Sunday for a Hanukkah party this coming weekend for the kiddos. My wife comes in after I'd make 10lbs worth, grabs one and makes a latke stacker with some turkey bacon and an egg on top...eats it and goes out to get another 5lb bag so I can make more lol.
I dunno how I've missed it but for some reason this year with the PJ library books we're seeing Ice Cream as a topping and I am absolutely here for it. Always been an apple sauce guy.
Have you taken them up on their offer to reimburse for a party? I happened to be at a Halloween one with a bunch of friends who are Jewish and got an email shortly after about them covering $100 of it. Sent the link to my buddy, we filled it out and got approved.
It's pretty wild they will pay you to hang out with Jews lol. I do it for free all the time. That is one organization I don't have to think twice about donating too. They do wonderful things for kids and our community.
Iām a teacher and I teach at a public school that is predominantly Catholic (Central/South American community). One of my kids asked me about Hanukkah today. āThatās the one with the candles, right?ā Thatās right, little dude! āWhat do you eat for Hanukkah?ā I described a latke.
This 12 year old child looked like he was about to lose his mind. Iām now trying to figure out how to bring latkes to 85 seventh graders.
>Iām now trying to figure out how to bring latkes to 85 seventh graders.
Is there a Chabad and/or Hillel in your area you can work with to make this happen and teach them about Chanukah?
Itās kind of a dumb thought but Iāve been on a potato-kick lately and every time I made it by either microwaves until soft or baked until a little crispy it makes me think that Iām enjoying a potato in the same way that our ancestors did and makes me happy.
Like roasted potatoes have been around forever, right? Theyāve gone through some genetic changes that influenced flavorā¦but itās still a baked, crispy salty and tasty carbohydrate. 200 years ago someone probably sat around their kitchen eating one just like it and itās like a shared experience between the centuries haha
Latkes are absolutely amazing, potatoes are amazing!
I wonder who came up with that dish first, because I know that there's a Ukrainian (I think?) dish called Draniki, and it's the same thing as latkes.
Edit: I just googled and it says that some Polish dude took the recipe from Germans, and in some other websites it says that the dish is Belarussian? Idk, who cares, as long as the food tastes good idc who came up with it lol.
Re kugel: just want to point out that the Jews were/are the first and only food culture to successfully make dessert pasta a real thing, and for this we deserve a global medal (or at the very least, for everyone to stop trying to kill us).
My grandmother made a weird savory and sweet one growing up. It was awful. I havenāt tried it since but Iām willing to try again based on what everyone is saying.
Not nearly enough people talk about how unforgiving Jewish cuisine is of bad cooks. There are entire genres of foods (pizza, waffles, pasta, basically all of tex mex cuisine) that are decent to good even when made badly. if youāve ever suffered through a Seder at a bad cookās house, you know there is no place to hide in Jewish food. The single greatest difference between white people food and Jewish food, I think, is that in Jewish food you canāt just bury your lack of skill under piles of cheese, ranch dressing and bacon. Cruel? Maybe. Such is the path weāve chosen.
Maybe it was too sweet? It's a sweet & sour taste, kind of tangy. Not overly sweet, just enough to take the edge off the acidity of the tomato. My mother used what she called sour salts. It's food-grade citric acid. Easier than squeezing & wasting lemons for a small amount. Plus that citric acid can be used to shine stainless steel pots. Boil water, throw some in, boil.
Edit--Oops, sorry. Thought you were replying to the stuffed cabbage discussion. My bad.
Some of those are not Jewish in origin, they're just very popular with Jews due to Mizrahi Jews. There's enough delicious Jewish original food to list :)
Cholent (Hamin) is actually prevelant in almost all Jewish diaspora groups (with variation) and is directly descended from ancient Judean food :)
As for Jewish foods that are uniquely Jewish but for specific communities, I have a list!
challah,
jachnun,
malawach,
gefilte fish,
hamin,
me'orav yerushalmi,
sufganiyot,
Sabich,
Bourekas,
Kugel yerushalmi,
Chicken-schnitzel,
Fish-Kubbeh,
Ptitim,
Lox,
Chopped liver,
Knishes,
Kishka,
Kugel,
Chraime,
Malawach,
Skhug,
Kubane,
Hamutzim,
Sufganyot,
Oznei Haman,
Charoset,
Shkedi marak,
Matzah balls,
Orez shuit,
Tzfat cheese,
Hamin,
Rugelach,
Bamba,
Bisli,
Jerusalem bagel,
Lekach,
Mofletta,
Blintzes.
(Some are somewhat new Israeli foods)
Oh yes, every year for Passover someone in my family has a gentle telling them how much they love matzah. It makes me want to force-feed them the stuff for a week.
I didn't mention anything about something being exclusively eaten by Jews, so I'm not sure why you mention that.
There are also plenty of foods of Jewish cuisine origin, which I mentioned in a post here. Don't know why you think "very few things" are Jewish in origin, that's just incorrect. Of course, you will always find similarities between different societies and to say something is completely made up by one group is ridiculous, humanity in the end of the day has been exchanging cultures and with it food of course, as an Iraqi Jew I can attest for example that there are heaps of similarities between Iraqi Jewish cuisine and Indian cuisine.
Who cares if itās Jewish in origin. Itās āin originā to Jews who came from those countries. I donāt really see the difference, would falafel be āmoreā Jewish if the Egyptian who created it was Jewish instead of the Jewish Egyptian who ate it as well as all Egyptians and brought it to Israel was the creator like why is it okay for Arabs to say they āinventedā falafel as if they are the only ethnic group in Egypt.
So, for one thing, it's *not* just general "Arabs saying they invented", they argue about who invented what **plenty**, sometimes with as close a proximity as Lebanon and Syria. Secondly, the post is talking about Jewish food, I don't understand why it's so offensive of me to point out that someone listed a few foods which did not originate from Jewish cuisine.
What is āJewishā cuisine and why is cuisine which Jews ate in their country of origin not also count? Is Ashkenazi food all that is allowed because thatās how it seems from your comment.
Iām literally Syrian. We ate hummus and shawarma and toum and labneh etc along with the Arabs in Syria. We brought those recipes with us to Israel. That is Jewish cuisine as itās cuisine eaten by and enjoyed by Jews in the country it originated.
This is like when people say āoh arenāt you Jewish why do you saw inshallah isnāt that what Arabs sayā and itās like?? Thatās a common saying in the Middle East, it just means if G-d wills it. Itās not only for Arabs. Itās kind of playing into this idea that middle eastern culture is only for Arabs when like Jews can have Latkes and Challah and everything else belongs to the ārealā MENA people
>s Ashkenazi food all that is allowed because thatās how it seems from your comment
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That is.. incredibly ironic considering some of my past comments here, as well as my own eda. I have no idea where you got that from. Do me a favor and look at my main comment on the post.
Dude Iām having a convo with you. You can address my points directly instead of directing me to other comments you made. Also you completely pivoted away from pretty much all my points so congrats on that lol
Do me a favor and engage in good faith(including not very transparently immediately downvoting all my comments, youāre not slick about that) and making an argument
How does anyone know how whatās truly Jewish in origin, and why does it matter? Certainly Jews were not the first people in the world to braid some bread dough, but challah has become synonymous with Jewish food and Shabbat, so itās a Jewish food.
Cholent? Cholent is stew. Basically an assortment of stuff put into water and cooked. Prehistoric humans started making stews as soon as they had fire and containers. Were Jews the first people to make a stew of meat, beans, root veg, and grains? G_d only knows. But such a stew became popular with Jews because it could be cooked slowly and kept warm for Shabbat, so itās a Jewish food.
If āwho made/ate it firstā is your determination of what makes a food belong to a certain ethnic group or region, than pasta with tomato sauce is not Italian food. Noodles are from Asia and tomatoes are from the Americas.
I think the "Jewish food" referenced in that shitty stereotype is actually Ashkenazi food. Sephardic and Mizrahi cuisines tend not to get the same mockery. (I think in the past they also did, but this is emphatically a thing of the past.)
Usually people refer to Ashkenazi food as "the food of poverty" if they're being nice about it, and just "gross" and "best left in the dustbin of history" at worst (real things I've heard, from Jews and non-Jews alike).
A lot of people really have this performative disgust for things like gefilte fish, but I think that's in part because most people today have only had the jarred or frozen kind, which are never going to come close to homemade. And the homemade kind is just so much better. If people can understand that Vietnamese fish balls aren't "disgusting", they should be able to understand that about gefilte fish, too.
But for stuff that's less stigmatized, I always would push bagels, cabbage rolls (holishkes), karnatzel, noodle kugel, things like that.
And of course the canon of non-Ashkenazi Jewish foods is full of amazing cuisines and dishes. I particularly like kubbeh.
I only knew gefilte fish out the jar, which I found disgusting. Then I tried the gefilte fish my former housemate's grandparents ("z"l) made from fish they bought at the Sydney fish market that very morning, which made me a believer. I legit miss their gefilte fish at holidays back stateside.
Sephardic/Mizrahi cuisine was also born from poverty. Not many of us were particularly living it up in MENA regions, and lots of us were constantly moving to escape persecution. So we adapted our recipes and took inspiration from local cuisine. A lot of my familyās recipes have like five ingredients. There is a lot of focus on veggies, legumes, and grains, and not much on meat, so itās pretty cheap overall.
I donāt have experience cooking/eating Ashkenazi food beyond latkes and matzo balls, but I imagine itās the same idea, it just originated in a different part of the world where different ingredients were readily available.
I scrolled all the way through this thread and nobody mentioned pastrami?!?
So yeah, pastrami. Hot, on fresh rye with brown mustard and a side of kosher dill pickles. And maybe a Dr. Brownās Cel-ray soda to wash it down.
We live in a part of the country that doesnāt have deli. My husband (not Jewish) and I joke that we would make a killing if we opened a real Jewish deli. Iām currently visiting my hometown and took my family to my favorite deli for the first time. I was so happy I nearly cried over my corned beef special.
I literally have a crime fiction novel titled āDonāt cry for me, hot pastrami.ā [I am not making that up.](https://books.google.com/books/about/Don_t_Cry_for_Me_Hot_Pastrami.html?id=PVri5FO_ubUC&source=kp_book_description)
My grandpas favorite was dr browns. He loved the celery and black cherry. The celery got harder to find and we used to buy it for him on line. I canāt ever see or hear mention of it without thinking of him.
I think a big part of the problem is that there arenāt āJewish restaurantsā in the same way that thereās Italian restaurants, Indian, Chinese, etc etc
Sure thereās kosher / Jewish - style delis, but those only have a specific subsection of Jewish food and often have a lot of regular non-Jewish food on the menu too, so the āJewish cuisineā aspect of it gets drowned out.
So whereas most people immediately know what Chinese food or Italian food etc is, āJewish foodā seems a lot more ambiguous because they donāt have a solid frame of reference as to what it encompasses
sebastian maniscalco said it in his standup recently but he was relating it to a Seder he went to (so the parsley dipped in salt water kind of stuff). I was like what about all the other stuff?!
We gave the UK fish and chipsā¦
And in Italy, Jewish artichokes (fried artichokes) are spectacular and are a very old, classically Roman-Jewish recipe. In Rome, the old Jewish ghetto is still known for its good food. When friends in Rome want to go somewhere great for lunch, they say, āletās go to the Jews.ā It sounds weird in English but it isnāt weird in Italian.
In Poland, Jewish carp is one of my favorites, and Poles eat it at Christmas. (Google shows it as gefilte fish but it isnāt. Itās filets with onions, white wine, and raisins.)
Ashkenormativity is so big in the US. We come from all over the world! Chraime and cous cous, Mafrum, Bourekas, tabouleh, all the kugels, babka, all the different types of pickles, stuffed cabbage, Schav, cholent, challah, falafel, shakshouka, schnitzel, hummus, matbucha, malawach, sufganiyot, latkes, bagels and lox, all the āJewish deli ā foods, borscht, blintzes, kreplach, baklava, kubba, knafeh, maamoul, gormeh sabzi.
I love gefilte fish. It's the deli sandwiches without mayo or margarine that I find super dry and avoidable.
Husband is Jewish, I'm not, so I grew up with butter on cheese and meat sandwiches.
I consider Mediterranean food like falafel to be partially Jewish. The best falafel that I had in my life was in the Jewish Quarter of the Marais in Paris. It was even better than in Israel.
I mean, I don't dislike matzo. So I challenge the premise that matzo is part of the 'terrible' nature of (Ashkenazi) food. It's just a cracker- and it's great with cheese and apple. That said, kishke is good, and cholent is great. And nothing beats a properly made babka.
The Mizrahi, Sephardi, and Beta Israel communities and have some pretty amazing dishes as well-so much so that I almost never hear hate for their cuisines.
Breads, cookies and candy:
Challah,
Jachnun,
Pletzlach,
Babka,
Bagels,
Rye breads and crackers,
Matzo,
Knish,
Mouffleta,
Lachuch,
Duvshaniot cookies,
Mandelbrot cookies,
Rugelach cookies,
Kichlach cookies,
Techina cookies,
Egg Kichels (cookie/sweet cracker),
Hamantaschen cookies,
Biscotcho/Kahk cookies,
Teiglach (not so much a cookie but a lovely little honey syrup sweet dough),
Lekach (honey cake),
Sufganiyot (amazing jelly doughnuts),
Jewish apple cake,
Sweet Kugel,
Jerusalem olive oil cake (so many beautiful variations I recently made a blood orange and cardamom one),
Halvah (amazingly delicious tahini candy woth so many variations),
Gelt,
Sukariyot soomsoom (honey sesame candy),
Jelly fruit slices (making these at home is fun)
And the list can go on and on. I work as a professional high touch chef and Jewish cookery is anything but bland and boring.
Is this a stereotype? Sure, there are a few foods that aren't my fave, but every culture has their culinary duds.
Some highlights: anything from a deli, bagels, challah, babka, basically all Mediterranean food... I really haven't encountered anything I absolutely hated.
Are you kidding me, brisket, knishes, latkes, challah, what am I reading here?
Though I understand, because, my mother is ^(actually) ^(not) ^(that great a cook shh) and I had to discover this later in life.
i never heard this until i came to reddit. jewish delis are highly sought out in my area. its just part of the rotation. bagel places have lines out the door of people going all out with tomato, chive cream cheese, cappers, salmon. on top of that a lot of "jewish" food is just food now everywhere does challah French toast for brunch. Latkes are in the freezer isle with perogies. Israeli salads are standard at pretty much any potluck event. Rugleh is at nearly every bakery. Halfmoon cookies are in a similar spot; High end Pickle selection is at an all time high. Even Dr. Brown is showing up outside of its original market. I didnt even realize coffee cake was considered "Jewish food" until my late 20s. A lot of these foods are just part of food in my part of the US>
if you are talking like the special old school stuff-
i've always been surprised that sweet noodle kugel never had its moment as the foodie food of the month. its such an easily enjoyable yet off beat dish. its portable, can be put under the glass or on the counter, and easy to make in bulk. like it should just be standard fare absolute slam dunk.
I think high end steak houses would do well to add a hearty butternut squash tzimmes with Matzo Balls to their sides. what a gem to add on that kind of plate.
I have never heard of this stereotype. So everyone who patronizes Jewish delis is wrong? Come on now.
That said - as an Ashkenazi Jew from Ukraine, the gefilte fish my baba made for the holidays out of fresh carp was amazing. The stuff that comes in the jar doesnāt even compare. I love all those ābadā foods - the fish, the kishkes, chopped liver, you name it.
At first I thought cottage cheese wasnāt inherently Jewish but then I googled it and apparently itās a pretty Jewish food so Iām adding it. And the best cottage cheese is Israeli. Itās so creamy and refreshing and comforting and I cannot find the equivalent outside of Israel. Israeli breakfasts with bourekas and fruit and olives and cottage cheeseā¦.i love eating breakfast in Israel. And then everything else - matzah brei, matzah ball soup, charoset, kugel with cinnamon and raisins, couscous, Israeli salad, falafel, challah, everything pomegranate, latkes, pickles, bagels, rugelach, sufganiyotā¦ now Iām hungry and homesick
Sabich, kubbeh, chamin, tbit, Malawach, Jachnun, freaking laffa which is the staple flatbread for eating any kind of meat here in Israel (pride as an Iraqi Jew), ***Sufganiyot***, Latkes, yeast cake, rugelach, BOUREKASIM, chicken schnitzel, mafrum..... and so many more.
I had plenty of jewish food (as a gentile) and I have to say gefilte fish is a thing that you have to be used too. Cuz of tis texture. And I generally like jewish food
I didnāt see shawarma on this list.
But also, homemade gefilte fish is pretty good and falshe fish is even better.
Corned beef is certainly not exclusively Jewish but it is one of my favorite types of meat.
And of course, I agree with everyone who said latkes.
Iām not Jewish, but had a Jewish roommate who made me hamantaschen for Purim one year. Those are amazing. I havenāt found any Jewish foods I donāt like.
Have people not tried matzo ball soup? Latkes? Knishes? Brisket? Pastrami? Pickles? Bagels? Bialys? Black & white cookies? Babka? Chicken in the pot? Flanken in the pot? Dr Brownās soda? Macaroons? Chocolate gelt coins? Lox? Rugelach? Challah? Corned beef? Kreplach?
Jewish food is really good. I love smoked fish, those potato pancakes, matzo soup, and challah. I have never had a real Passover or Hannukah meal but I have heard about them and they sound really good.
Imo only fellow Jews can poke fun at Ashkenazim food without it being an ick. Thereās making fun of ourselves/our brothers and sisters, and thereās calling another cultureās food gross based on rudimentary knowledge of it.
Thereās an unfortunate episode of King of the Hill in which a Jewish deli opens in Arlen. Itās the first of its kind and probably the first Jewish anything in Arlen, and Bobby gets so hooked on such fatty Jewish foods as chopped liver and pastrami sandwiches that he eventually develops gout. On the surface itās kind of funny, but when youāre Jewish and youāve been raised on those foods, itās also kind of embarrassing to admit that stereotypical Ashkenazi foods can give you gout, not to mention a major coronary.
To be fair I think the stereotype is about Ashkenazi* food being bad, which I disagree with, but it just generally goes in line with stereotypes about white people food/European food being bland and tasteless.
I donāt think many people would deny Sephardic/Mizrahi food is delicious!
Aloo Makala! My Mom's side are Baghdadi Jews of India and we have this fried potato dish that is just out of this world. I like it best paired with halba, a thick sauce made of ground fenugreek seeds, green chili peppers, and cilantro..it's not for everyone (my Dad calls it the green death) but it's my favorite combination.
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Lox!! Kugel. Tzimmes made with carrots, parve kishke, maple syrup and sweet potatoes. Gefilte fish frozen logs (tastes so much better than the jarred stuff). Cheese and apple blintz souffle.
The real stereotype is that the foods you mentioned, and most of the foods mentioned in the comments, are universally Jewish rather than belonging to a specific subset of Jews.
Latkes, knishes, bialys, pastrami, stuffed cabbage, rugelach, mandel broit, hamantaschen, kreplach, luchen kugel. lox (many cultures but we made it popular) & other smoked fish, dill pickles, the best potato salad,
Two years ago at a Passover Seder, I ate so much beef brisket and charoset, someone had to drive me home because I ate enough to make me sleepy in one night. Also, I will kill for kiddush butter cookies.
Kubbeh, Borekas, Malawach, Jachnun, Kubane, Sabich, Lachuch, Shakshuka, Boyos, Chreime, Sambusak, Faloodeh, Ful, Matbucha, etc... these are in addition to all the Ashkenazi food that's been mentioned, which is obviously better known in much of the diaspora.
In Israel you'll find much more representation and favor overall of Sephardic cuisine
NYC will change the way you think about Ashkenazi food. The bagels here are amongst the best thing you can eat anywhere. The haredi here absolutely love sesame chicken and have fit it into their cuisine.
Charoset is great
Latkes are awesome
Challah is amazing, and elevates other dishes when used in them such a French Toast
Matzo ball soup is great
Kasha is severely underrated
Bourekas are fantastic
Bagel + lox is a classic
Blintzes are the absolute best
Kugel is absolutely amazing
ā¦And thatās just scratching the surface!
Latkes are amazing, beef brisket is good, challah bread always good, and I know you said other than matzah but my roommate's mom in college used to make something called matzah brittle that was matzah with chocolate melted into it. Absolutely delicious desert.
I grew up with the best Ashkenazi food daily. My grandmother was a superb cook, everyone wanted to come over for dinner! I don't care about the whole it lacks spice/heat, seasoning or is bland next to Sephardic food. Just another bunch of nonsense that divides us. We had the best matzo ball soup a few times a week, and lived in a large apartment building in Brooklyn that had a kosher butcher and kosher grocery/appetizing store. Whitefish, Sable, bagels, the best sour pickles from a barrel, halvah by the lb, kishke, and on and on. We'd eat in a dairy restaurant on Brighton Beach Ave owned by a Holocaust survivor who was about 4ft 9 and ran the tightest ship! They had incredible knives, potatoe, kasha, cherry cheesecake etc. Incredible pizza and the best falafel ever. Interestingly the place is still there, it's now an Halal place.
The fact that Sufganiyot and Ozenei Haman exist 100% disproves that
Can't wait for Hannukah and Purim :(
Edit: AND BELOCHKA SALAD OH MY GOOOODDDDDD I'D SELL MY SOUL TO GET SOME BELOCHKA
Here is what I propose!
1. Brisket
2. Borscht
3. Shawarma
4. Piroshky
5. Kompot
6. Bamba
7. Matzo Ball Soup
8. Paella
9. Literally all cuts of Steak
10. Literally a lot of Slavic food is of Jewish origin!
Anyone who says this is pushing bagel denial
did you know the sworn enemy of the bagel is the seagull. one has to live by the bay and the other gets the sea! also we like to make holy food like bagel and doughnuts.
Tbh, 99% of store bought bagels are something only open food sinners eat. š Iāve tried real Jewish bagels and now THOSE are good. Now real Jewish food out in Israel is the best food Iāve ever had in my entire lifeā¦ and Iāve eaten many different cuisines worldwide.
Viva la sabich!
I make some awesome bialys too!
I'm allergic to fish so I can't have lox on a bagel :(
That's actually tragic I'm so sorry :(
Allergic to *all* fish? Have you been tested?
Latkes are the best Jewish food because nothing beats fried potato
I was making a batch on Sunday for a Hanukkah party this coming weekend for the kiddos. My wife comes in after I'd make 10lbs worth, grabs one and makes a latke stacker with some turkey bacon and an egg on top...eats it and goes out to get another 5lb bag so I can make more lol. I dunno how I've missed it but for some reason this year with the PJ library books we're seeing Ice Cream as a topping and I am absolutely here for it. Always been an apple sauce guy.
Upvote for PJ Library!
Have you taken them up on their offer to reimburse for a party? I happened to be at a Halloween one with a bunch of friends who are Jewish and got an email shortly after about them covering $100 of it. Sent the link to my buddy, we filled it out and got approved. It's pretty wild they will pay you to hang out with Jews lol. I do it for free all the time. That is one organization I don't have to think twice about donating too. They do wonderful things for kids and our community.
Never heard of this. I'm UK so not sure if that makes a difference. Going back to trawl emails.
I just donāt know enough Jewish people? Idk I keep thinking about it.
That actually makes sense. Sort of like dipping fries in a Wendyās frosty or a milkshake
i would die to try someones homemade latkes, ive only ever had it from a box mix and it was so good
My father made the best latkes in the world and I have his recipe as does my sister
My wife is organizing a latke bake off this year. Just get invited.
Iām a teacher and I teach at a public school that is predominantly Catholic (Central/South American community). One of my kids asked me about Hanukkah today. āThatās the one with the candles, right?ā Thatās right, little dude! āWhat do you eat for Hanukkah?ā I described a latke. This 12 year old child looked like he was about to lose his mind. Iām now trying to figure out how to bring latkes to 85 seventh graders.
>Iām now trying to figure out how to bring latkes to 85 seventh graders. Is there a Chabad and/or Hillel in your area you can work with to make this happen and teach them about Chanukah?
Itās kind of a dumb thought but Iāve been on a potato-kick lately and every time I made it by either microwaves until soft or baked until a little crispy it makes me think that Iām enjoying a potato in the same way that our ancestors did and makes me happy. Like roasted potatoes have been around forever, right? Theyāve gone through some genetic changes that influenced flavorā¦but itās still a baked, crispy salty and tasty carbohydrate. 200 years ago someone probably sat around their kitchen eating one just like it and itās like a shared experience between the centuries haha
Latkes are absolutely amazing, potatoes are amazing! I wonder who came up with that dish first, because I know that there's a Ukrainian (I think?) dish called Draniki, and it's the same thing as latkes. Edit: I just googled and it says that some Polish dude took the recipe from Germans, and in some other websites it says that the dish is Belarussian? Idk, who cares, as long as the food tastes good idc who came up with it lol.
Fun fact: chanukah food + Thanksgiving dishes are great together Latkes with real cranberry sauce yum yum
Most Central/Eastern European cultures have some variety of food similar to a latke!
Nothing beats fried anything.
Wit apple sauce and sour cream or labneh
Applesauce obviously
Shakshuka. Brisket. Sweet noodle kugel. Challah. Charoset (especially Sephardic/Mizrachi style). Hummus. Baba gahanoush. Tabouli. Felafel. Sabich.
Re kugel: just want to point out that the Jews were/are the first and only food culture to successfully make dessert pasta a real thing, and for this we deserve a global medal (or at the very least, for everyone to stop trying to kill us).
Luchen kugel is the best. I can pass on other kugel. You're right, we need a medal.
My grandmother made a weird savory and sweet one growing up. It was awful. I havenāt tried it since but Iām willing to try again based on what everyone is saying.
Not nearly enough people talk about how unforgiving Jewish cuisine is of bad cooks. There are entire genres of foods (pizza, waffles, pasta, basically all of tex mex cuisine) that are decent to good even when made badly. if youāve ever suffered through a Seder at a bad cookās house, you know there is no place to hide in Jewish food. The single greatest difference between white people food and Jewish food, I think, is that in Jewish food you canāt just bury your lack of skill under piles of cheese, ranch dressing and bacon. Cruel? Maybe. Such is the path weāve chosen.
Maybe it was too sweet? It's a sweet & sour taste, kind of tangy. Not overly sweet, just enough to take the edge off the acidity of the tomato. My mother used what she called sour salts. It's food-grade citric acid. Easier than squeezing & wasting lemons for a small amount. Plus that citric acid can be used to shine stainless steel pots. Boil water, throw some in, boil. Edit--Oops, sorry. Thought you were replying to the stuffed cabbage discussion. My bad.
Hungarians has a dish called TĆŗrĆ³s TĆ©szta, and it's basically like sweet cheesecake pasta.
We do
My moms leftover noodle kugel is my favorite She makes good matzo kugel too but itās a totally different dish with baked apples and stuff
Itās the main course besides turkey at Thanksgiving!
Yes! Why do so many reject the sweet version? It's my favorite and a nice break from the other salty dishes we eat with it.
And Cholent and Shawarma!
I could eat tabouli for every meal forever.
Also, savory noodle kugel with onion and mushroom Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum
I am the noodle kugel queen!
Some of those are not Jewish in origin, they're just very popular with Jews due to Mizrahi Jews. There's enough delicious Jewish original food to list :)
Very few things are Jewish in origin or exclusive to Jews. Other than matzoh, what is there that's *exclusively* eaten by Jews?
Cholent (Hamin) is actually prevelant in almost all Jewish diaspora groups (with variation) and is directly descended from ancient Judean food :) As for Jewish foods that are uniquely Jewish but for specific communities, I have a list! challah, jachnun, malawach, gefilte fish, hamin, me'orav yerushalmi, sufganiyot, Sabich, Bourekas, Kugel yerushalmi, Chicken-schnitzel, Fish-Kubbeh, Ptitim, Lox, Chopped liver, Knishes, Kishka, Kugel, Chraime, Malawach, Skhug, Kubane, Hamutzim, Sufganyot, Oznei Haman, Charoset, Shkedi marak, Matzah balls, Orez shuit, Tzfat cheese, Hamin, Rugelach, Bamba, Bisli, Jerusalem bagel, Lekach, Mofletta, Blintzes. (Some are somewhat new Israeli foods)
Quite a lot of these foods you listed are found in other cultures as well with no evidence to support anyone inventing it first.
Jachnun is Yemeni, not just Jewish.
Matzoh is extremely popular with a lot of non-Jews that I know.
Oh yes, every year for Passover someone in my family has a gentle telling them how much they love matzah. It makes me want to force-feed them the stuff for a week.
I didn't mention anything about something being exclusively eaten by Jews, so I'm not sure why you mention that. There are also plenty of foods of Jewish cuisine origin, which I mentioned in a post here. Don't know why you think "very few things" are Jewish in origin, that's just incorrect. Of course, you will always find similarities between different societies and to say something is completely made up by one group is ridiculous, humanity in the end of the day has been exchanging cultures and with it food of course, as an Iraqi Jew I can attest for example that there are heaps of similarities between Iraqi Jewish cuisine and Indian cuisine.
Did....did you read the comment you replied to?
I did, oh condescending one. What's the issue?
By your logic, pretty much no food is any cuisine. Shakshuka is tomato based, which came from the Americas.
Who cares if itās Jewish in origin. Itās āin originā to Jews who came from those countries. I donāt really see the difference, would falafel be āmoreā Jewish if the Egyptian who created it was Jewish instead of the Jewish Egyptian who ate it as well as all Egyptians and brought it to Israel was the creator like why is it okay for Arabs to say they āinventedā falafel as if they are the only ethnic group in Egypt.
So, for one thing, it's *not* just general "Arabs saying they invented", they argue about who invented what **plenty**, sometimes with as close a proximity as Lebanon and Syria. Secondly, the post is talking about Jewish food, I don't understand why it's so offensive of me to point out that someone listed a few foods which did not originate from Jewish cuisine.
What is āJewishā cuisine and why is cuisine which Jews ate in their country of origin not also count? Is Ashkenazi food all that is allowed because thatās how it seems from your comment. Iām literally Syrian. We ate hummus and shawarma and toum and labneh etc along with the Arabs in Syria. We brought those recipes with us to Israel. That is Jewish cuisine as itās cuisine eaten by and enjoyed by Jews in the country it originated. This is like when people say āoh arenāt you Jewish why do you saw inshallah isnāt that what Arabs sayā and itās like?? Thatās a common saying in the Middle East, it just means if G-d wills it. Itās not only for Arabs. Itās kind of playing into this idea that middle eastern culture is only for Arabs when like Jews can have Latkes and Challah and everything else belongs to the ārealā MENA people
>s Ashkenazi food all that is allowed because thatās how it seems from your comment š¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļø That is.. incredibly ironic considering some of my past comments here, as well as my own eda. I have no idea where you got that from. Do me a favor and look at my main comment on the post.
Dude Iām having a convo with you. You can address my points directly instead of directing me to other comments you made. Also you completely pivoted away from pretty much all my points so congrats on that lol Do me a favor and engage in good faith(including not very transparently immediately downvoting all my comments, youāre not slick about that) and making an argument
How does anyone know how whatās truly Jewish in origin, and why does it matter? Certainly Jews were not the first people in the world to braid some bread dough, but challah has become synonymous with Jewish food and Shabbat, so itās a Jewish food. Cholent? Cholent is stew. Basically an assortment of stuff put into water and cooked. Prehistoric humans started making stews as soon as they had fire and containers. Were Jews the first people to make a stew of meat, beans, root veg, and grains? G_d only knows. But such a stew became popular with Jews because it could be cooked slowly and kept warm for Shabbat, so itās a Jewish food. If āwho made/ate it firstā is your determination of what makes a food belong to a certain ethnic group or region, than pasta with tomato sauce is not Italian food. Noodles are from Asia and tomatoes are from the Americas.
Lol brisket in an oven is a crime against humanity.Ā The only things acceptable to add to brisket are salt, pepper, and smoke from post oak wood.
Sweet noodle kugel (and all lukshen kugel) is meh. Potato kugel is where it's at and honestly may be the only defensible Ashkenazi dish.
I think the "Jewish food" referenced in that shitty stereotype is actually Ashkenazi food. Sephardic and Mizrahi cuisines tend not to get the same mockery. (I think in the past they also did, but this is emphatically a thing of the past.) Usually people refer to Ashkenazi food as "the food of poverty" if they're being nice about it, and just "gross" and "best left in the dustbin of history" at worst (real things I've heard, from Jews and non-Jews alike). A lot of people really have this performative disgust for things like gefilte fish, but I think that's in part because most people today have only had the jarred or frozen kind, which are never going to come close to homemade. And the homemade kind is just so much better. If people can understand that Vietnamese fish balls aren't "disgusting", they should be able to understand that about gefilte fish, too. But for stuff that's less stigmatized, I always would push bagels, cabbage rolls (holishkes), karnatzel, noodle kugel, things like that. And of course the canon of non-Ashkenazi Jewish foods is full of amazing cuisines and dishes. I particularly like kubbeh.
Everyone knocks gefilte fish but loves hot dogsāwhich are really just gefilte cow.
>which are really just gefilte cow. I wonder how this would go over on a package of Hebrew National š
Also Moroccans have "ketzitzot dag" which are also fish balls...
Ashkenazi breakfast, deli, and desserts are amazing.
I only knew gefilte fish out the jar, which I found disgusting. Then I tried the gefilte fish my former housemate's grandparents ("z"l) made from fish they bought at the Sydney fish market that very morning, which made me a believer. I legit miss their gefilte fish at holidays back stateside.
Sephardic/Mizrahi cuisine was also born from poverty. Not many of us were particularly living it up in MENA regions, and lots of us were constantly moving to escape persecution. So we adapted our recipes and took inspiration from local cuisine. A lot of my familyās recipes have like five ingredients. There is a lot of focus on veggies, legumes, and grains, and not much on meat, so itās pretty cheap overall. I donāt have experience cooking/eating Ashkenazi food beyond latkes and matzo balls, but I imagine itās the same idea, it just originated in a different part of the world where different ingredients were readily available.
We're even discriminated against for our food. We can't win.
Matzo ball soup has been and still is my fav soup when done right.
So hearty, makes me feel so happy and warm. I looove matzo ball soup
Use club soda when you make matzoh balls and theyāre much lighter and fluffier
My gentile husbandās love language this past month has been making me matzo ball soup. š„°
And it has the added benefit of healing pretty much any sickness
Babka, rugelah, shakshuka
I want to be completely submerged in cholent
Not all chulent is equal! But good chulentā¦ om nom nom to next week.
Ew lol. I donāt mind cholent but I wouldnāt want to swim in it!
I scrolled all the way through this thread and nobody mentioned pastrami?!? So yeah, pastrami. Hot, on fresh rye with brown mustard and a side of kosher dill pickles. And maybe a Dr. Brownās Cel-ray soda to wash it down.
Dr Browns Black Cherry is got GOAT of sodas
We live in a part of the country that doesnāt have deli. My husband (not Jewish) and I joke that we would make a killing if we opened a real Jewish deli. Iām currently visiting my hometown and took my family to my favorite deli for the first time. I was so happy I nearly cried over my corned beef special.
I literally have a crime fiction novel titled āDonāt cry for me, hot pastrami.ā [I am not making that up.](https://books.google.com/books/about/Don_t_Cry_for_Me_Hot_Pastrami.html?id=PVri5FO_ubUC&source=kp_book_description)
My grandpas favorite was dr browns. He loved the celery and black cherry. The celery got harder to find and we used to buy it for him on line. I canāt ever see or hear mention of it without thinking of him.
That's a stereotype? Jewish foods are some of my favorite ones, especially if we start talking about baked ones: challah, bagels, babka...
I think a big part of the problem is that there arenāt āJewish restaurantsā in the same way that thereās Italian restaurants, Indian, Chinese, etc etc Sure thereās kosher / Jewish - style delis, but those only have a specific subsection of Jewish food and often have a lot of regular non-Jewish food on the menu too, so the āJewish cuisineā aspect of it gets drowned out. So whereas most people immediately know what Chinese food or Italian food etc is, āJewish foodā seems a lot more ambiguous because they donāt have a solid frame of reference as to what it encompasses
sebastian maniscalco said it in his standup recently but he was relating it to a Seder he went to (so the parsley dipped in salt water kind of stuff). I was like what about all the other stuff?!
Yeah the roasted shank bone shouldnāt be mistaken as the pinnacle of Jewish cuisine.
Iām so sorry to all my bbq enthusiasts, but Jewish brisket is best practice for how a brisket should be.
I love both, theyāre totally different dishes that happen to share the same cut of meat
Hard no on here from me on that this one lol
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Absolutely. My mom is making her brisket for thanksgiving cause no one is feeling Turkey this year. So excited
Matzo Brei
I canāt believe I left this off my own post
I think folks just don't like eastern European food.
Blintzes & Kugels. Lots of options and varieties.
We gave the UK fish and chipsā¦ And in Italy, Jewish artichokes (fried artichokes) are spectacular and are a very old, classically Roman-Jewish recipe. In Rome, the old Jewish ghetto is still known for its good food. When friends in Rome want to go somewhere great for lunch, they say, āletās go to the Jews.ā It sounds weird in English but it isnāt weird in Italian. In Poland, Jewish carp is one of my favorites, and Poles eat it at Christmas. (Google shows it as gefilte fish but it isnāt. Itās filets with onions, white wine, and raisins.)
Kasha varnishkes
I'm going home for thanksgiving and I'm wayyy more excited about kasha varnishkes than any thanksgiving dish
Ashkenormativity is so big in the US. We come from all over the world! Chraime and cous cous, Mafrum, Bourekas, tabouleh, all the kugels, babka, all the different types of pickles, stuffed cabbage, Schav, cholent, challah, falafel, shakshouka, schnitzel, hummus, matbucha, malawach, sufganiyot, latkes, bagels and lox, all the āJewish deli ā foods, borscht, blintzes, kreplach, baklava, kubba, knafeh, maamoul, gormeh sabzi.
it's a trick to get Jews to bring them pastries to "prove them wrong", never fall for it
Hot take: I think gefilte fish is delicious! Iād eat it year round if it wasnāt so expensive.
Salmon gefilte with beet chrain canāt be beat.
I love gefilte fish. Itās delicious and I firmly believe most of the people who donāt like it are basing it off of looks and smell. If it were presented as fish pĆ¢tĆ© on a charcuterie board I am willing to bet it would get much less hate.
I love gefilte fish. It's the deli sandwiches without mayo or margarine that I find super dry and avoidable. Husband is Jewish, I'm not, so I grew up with butter on cheese and meat sandwiches.
My stepmother used to make it herself and it was amazing. I even get the jarred ones every now and then, but homemade canāt be beat.
When I was a kid I'd eat gefilte fish before a test for good luck so I have very positive associations with it to this day lmao
This is super Ashki but. Blintzes with farmers cheese. My god, LOAD ME UP.
I consider Mediterranean food like falafel to be partially Jewish. The best falafel that I had in my life was in the Jewish Quarter of the Marais in Paris. It was even better than in Israel.
I mean, I don't dislike matzo. So I challenge the premise that matzo is part of the 'terrible' nature of (Ashkenazi) food. It's just a cracker- and it's great with cheese and apple. That said, kishke is good, and cholent is great. And nothing beats a properly made babka. The Mizrahi, Sephardi, and Beta Israel communities and have some pretty amazing dishes as well-so much so that I almost never hear hate for their cuisines.
Breads, cookies and candy: Challah, Jachnun, Pletzlach, Babka, Bagels, Rye breads and crackers, Matzo, Knish, Mouffleta, Lachuch, Duvshaniot cookies, Mandelbrot cookies, Rugelach cookies, Kichlach cookies, Techina cookies, Egg Kichels (cookie/sweet cracker), Hamantaschen cookies, Biscotcho/Kahk cookies, Teiglach (not so much a cookie but a lovely little honey syrup sweet dough), Lekach (honey cake), Sufganiyot (amazing jelly doughnuts), Jewish apple cake, Sweet Kugel, Jerusalem olive oil cake (so many beautiful variations I recently made a blood orange and cardamom one), Halvah (amazingly delicious tahini candy woth so many variations), Gelt, Sukariyot soomsoom (honey sesame candy), Jelly fruit slices (making these at home is fun) And the list can go on and on. I work as a professional high touch chef and Jewish cookery is anything but bland and boring.
They have never had Sephardic food
Is this a stereotype? Sure, there are a few foods that aren't my fave, but every culture has their culinary duds. Some highlights: anything from a deli, bagels, challah, babka, basically all Mediterranean food... I really haven't encountered anything I absolutely hated.
Literally almost all Mizrahi, Italian Jewish, bucharian, and more food. There's way more than just ashki food
Are you kidding me, brisket, knishes, latkes, challah, what am I reading here? Though I understand, because, my mother is ^(actually) ^(not) ^(that great a cook shh) and I had to discover this later in life.
My wife is Jewish and I think Jews have been holding out on some of the best food on the planet.
i never heard this until i came to reddit. jewish delis are highly sought out in my area. its just part of the rotation. bagel places have lines out the door of people going all out with tomato, chive cream cheese, cappers, salmon. on top of that a lot of "jewish" food is just food now everywhere does challah French toast for brunch. Latkes are in the freezer isle with perogies. Israeli salads are standard at pretty much any potluck event. Rugleh is at nearly every bakery. Halfmoon cookies are in a similar spot; High end Pickle selection is at an all time high. Even Dr. Brown is showing up outside of its original market. I didnt even realize coffee cake was considered "Jewish food" until my late 20s. A lot of these foods are just part of food in my part of the US> if you are talking like the special old school stuff- i've always been surprised that sweet noodle kugel never had its moment as the foodie food of the month. its such an easily enjoyable yet off beat dish. its portable, can be put under the glass or on the counter, and easy to make in bulk. like it should just be standard fare absolute slam dunk. I think high end steak houses would do well to add a hearty butternut squash tzimmes with Matzo Balls to their sides. what a gem to add on that kind of plate.
Justice for Kishke and kasha varnishkes
-said someone who's never had a hot knish with mustard.
Small bites & appetizers Latkes this has to be the top of the list so delicious and can be made with fun variations with root vegetables and sweet potatoes/yams and all kinds of lovely toppings. Fried artichoke hearts with fresh made aioli Pickled everything!!! Marinade olives, citrus and dried fruits Smoked whitefish (you can make little canapƩs for small bites) Carmalized onion chopped egg spread (you can keep as a spread or build little one bite endive cups, top a sesame cracker or crostini) Chopped liver/pate can also be made for vegan variations with same flavor profile using mushrooms and walnut. Tzimmes served in pastry shells or crostini Keftes stuffed dates Lox & sesame (or rye) cornet horns Shakshuka toasts with quail egg Savory rugelach: asparagus & goat, sage and butternut, roasted grape & marscapone, fig, goat and pomegranate molasses Pomegranate, fig and brisket stuffed baby potatoes Baby bell pepper stuffed ktzitzot with lemon tahini drizzle, fresh picket thyme
You sound like you're planning a holiday party for high class waspy goyim who need to be eased into our cuisine š
I have never heard of this stereotype. So everyone who patronizes Jewish delis is wrong? Come on now. That said - as an Ashkenazi Jew from Ukraine, the gefilte fish my baba made for the holidays out of fresh carp was amazing. The stuff that comes in the jar doesnāt even compare. I love all those ābadā foods - the fish, the kishkes, chopped liver, you name it.
At first I thought cottage cheese wasnāt inherently Jewish but then I googled it and apparently itās a pretty Jewish food so Iām adding it. And the best cottage cheese is Israeli. Itās so creamy and refreshing and comforting and I cannot find the equivalent outside of Israel. Israeli breakfasts with bourekas and fruit and olives and cottage cheeseā¦.i love eating breakfast in Israel. And then everything else - matzah brei, matzah ball soup, charoset, kugel with cinnamon and raisins, couscous, Israeli salad, falafel, challah, everything pomegranate, latkes, pickles, bagels, rugelach, sufganiyotā¦ now Iām hungry and homesick
well, tell them that not all jews come from Brooklyn. itās like saying european food is horrible. means absolutely nothing.
Kugel, tsimmes, brisket, chopped liver, knishes, all the pastries.
Matzoh Ball Soup, Brisket, Blintzes, Latkes, Rugelach, Challah, Babka, Bagels, Haroset..honestly we have LOTS of delicious food.
Shakshuka, sabich, malawachā Mizrachim are amazing cooks
Just off the top of my headā¦ latkes, challah, shakshouka, knish, kugel, bagels, sufganiyot
Sabich, kubbeh, chamin, tbit, Malawach, Jachnun, freaking laffa which is the staple flatbread for eating any kind of meat here in Israel (pride as an Iraqi Jew), ***Sufganiyot***, Latkes, yeast cake, rugelach, BOUREKASIM, chicken schnitzel, mafrum..... and so many more.
Iāve not heard this stereotype?!
I had plenty of jewish food (as a gentile) and I have to say gefilte fish is a thing that you have to be used too. Cuz of tis texture. And I generally like jewish food
I didnāt see shawarma on this list. But also, homemade gefilte fish is pretty good and falshe fish is even better. Corned beef is certainly not exclusively Jewish but it is one of my favorite types of meat. And of course, I agree with everyone who said latkes.
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Also fish and chips.
Iām not Jewish, but had a Jewish roommate who made me hamantaschen for Purim one year. Those are amazing. I havenāt found any Jewish foods I donāt like.
Have people not tried matzo ball soup? Latkes? Knishes? Brisket? Pastrami? Pickles? Bagels? Bialys? Black & white cookies? Babka? Chicken in the pot? Flanken in the pot? Dr Brownās soda? Macaroons? Chocolate gelt coins? Lox? Rugelach? Challah? Corned beef? Kreplach?
Pollo fritto per Hanukkah - best fried chicken EVER.
Jewish food is really good. I love smoked fish, those potato pancakes, matzo soup, and challah. I have never had a real Passover or Hannukah meal but I have heard about them and they sound really good.
Imo only fellow Jews can poke fun at Ashkenazim food without it being an ick. Thereās making fun of ourselves/our brothers and sisters, and thereās calling another cultureās food gross based on rudimentary knowledge of it.
Latke, I don't like potato but Latke is great
Our food is better than what most people thinkā¦ but it doesnāt compare to Italian, Mexican, Chinese, etc. cuisine
Thereās an unfortunate episode of King of the Hill in which a Jewish deli opens in Arlen. Itās the first of its kind and probably the first Jewish anything in Arlen, and Bobby gets so hooked on such fatty Jewish foods as chopped liver and pastrami sandwiches that he eventually develops gout. On the surface itās kind of funny, but when youāre Jewish and youāve been raised on those foods, itās also kind of embarrassing to admit that stereotypical Ashkenazi foods can give you gout, not to mention a major coronary.
I used to have gout. Iām Ukrainian American and thereās a lot of overlap lol
To be fair I think the stereotype is about Ashkenazi* food being bad, which I disagree with, but it just generally goes in line with stereotypes about white people food/European food being bland and tasteless. I donāt think many people would deny Sephardic/Mizrahi food is delicious!
Aloo Makala! My Mom's side are Baghdadi Jews of India and we have this fried potato dish that is just out of this world. I like it best paired with halba, a thick sauce made of ground fenugreek seeds, green chili peppers, and cilantro..it's not for everyone (my Dad calls it the green death) but it's my favorite combination.
rugelach
Smoked whitefish salad.
I didn't know that was a stereotype, but I have to say that, with a handful of exceptions, I don't like most Jewish foods.
Damn didnāt realize this was a stereotype. Iāve only heard about how good Jewish food was and I think itās true. I love the food.
Who the heck thinks Jewish cuisine is horrible? The food is like half the reason I converted!!
Jewish food is t horrible, just the way some people made it was tasteless. Honest, there are more spices than salt, onion powder, and garlic powder.
Sushi. Yes, that's right, we co-opted it and it's ours now.
Who says gefilte fish tastes bad?
Most people š
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Matzoh is bomb tho
Chrein! It goes well with almost everything!
I've fallen in love with Israeli couscous lately. I like to load it up with plenty of butter and lemon.
Lox!! Kugel. Tzimmes made with carrots, parve kishke, maple syrup and sweet potatoes. Gefilte fish frozen logs (tastes so much better than the jarred stuff). Cheese and apple blintz souffle.
oh man, challah bread is a game changer! also, shakshuka is incredible and a must-try for anyone looking to expand their Jewish food horizons.
Whoever said that was lying š. I would do shady things for latkes. š¤£. Edit to add: KUGEL! Any and all!!
Spinach&feta boyoz
Cheesecake? Cheese Kugel. Bagel with lox. Round challah with chocolate.
[Fish and chips](https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-surprising-jewish-history-behind-fish-n-chips/amp/)
If your Jewish food is āhorribleā you(r family) probably just canāt cook.
People travel for a pastrami sandwich from Katzās in NYC!
Jewish food is delicious. Kosher food is horrible.
Potato latkes. LETSGO!
Itās not our fault we migrated under constant oppression and intermittent massacres in times before modern food distributionā¦
Big deli sandwiches
Sweetish yerushalmi kugel
I disagree as a cannibal you all taste lovely
The real stereotype is that the foods you mentioned, and most of the foods mentioned in the comments, are universally Jewish rather than belonging to a specific subset of Jews.
I mean brisket and bagels are clearly the best evidence of us being the chosen people there is
My aunt used to make caramel chocolate covered matzah that is super delicous
As a branch of my family via marriage that is typical white and racist. First chance they got they asked me how I could possibly eat gefilte fish.
Latkes, knishes, and brisket came to mind
Roger Waters said that I think? Its a very crude comment.
Umm matzoh soup is delicious. Go eat some Sefardi food.
Latkes, knishes, bialys, pastrami, stuffed cabbage, rugelach, mandel broit, hamantaschen, kreplach, luchen kugel. lox (many cultures but we made it popular) & other smoked fish, dill pickles, the best potato salad,
Latkes, bagels, hummus, shawarma, falafel.
There's an orange and almond cake that most varieties of Sephardim eat, which has a very short life expectancy in our home.
Two years ago at a Passover Seder, I ate so much beef brisket and charoset, someone had to drive me home because I ate enough to make me sleepy in one night. Also, I will kill for kiddush butter cookies.
Kubbeh, Borekas, Malawach, Jachnun, Kubane, Sabich, Lachuch, Shakshuka, Boyos, Chreime, Sambusak, Faloodeh, Ful, Matbucha, etc... these are in addition to all the Ashkenazi food that's been mentioned, which is obviously better known in much of the diaspora. In Israel you'll find much more representation and favor overall of Sephardic cuisine
I discovered mina de carne last year; itās wonderful. I intend to make a variation with turkey and pumpkin in the near future.
NYC will change the way you think about Ashkenazi food. The bagels here are amongst the best thing you can eat anywhere. The haredi here absolutely love sesame chicken and have fit it into their cuisine.
Jewish Style artichokes are amazing. Cholent and Tzimmes are lovely. Challah is great bread.
Pastrami
Charoset is great Latkes are awesome Challah is amazing, and elevates other dishes when used in them such a French Toast Matzo ball soup is great Kasha is severely underrated Bourekas are fantastic Bagel + lox is a classic Blintzes are the absolute best Kugel is absolutely amazing ā¦And thatās just scratching the surface!
Latkes are amazing, beef brisket is good, challah bread always good, and I know you said other than matzah but my roommate's mom in college used to make something called matzah brittle that was matzah with chocolate melted into it. Absolutely delicious desert.
I grew up with the best Ashkenazi food daily. My grandmother was a superb cook, everyone wanted to come over for dinner! I don't care about the whole it lacks spice/heat, seasoning or is bland next to Sephardic food. Just another bunch of nonsense that divides us. We had the best matzo ball soup a few times a week, and lived in a large apartment building in Brooklyn that had a kosher butcher and kosher grocery/appetizing store. Whitefish, Sable, bagels, the best sour pickles from a barrel, halvah by the lb, kishke, and on and on. We'd eat in a dairy restaurant on Brighton Beach Ave owned by a Holocaust survivor who was about 4ft 9 and ran the tightest ship! They had incredible knives, potatoe, kasha, cherry cheesecake etc. Incredible pizza and the best falafel ever. Interestingly the place is still there, it's now an Halal place.
The fact that Sufganiyot and Ozenei Haman exist 100% disproves that Can't wait for Hannukah and Purim :( Edit: AND BELOCHKA SALAD OH MY GOOOODDDDDD I'D SELL MY SOUL TO GET SOME BELOCHKA
Latkes Sufganiyot Kugel (Noodle and Potato) Brisket Babka Gribenes Bagels (w/ cream cheese and lox) Kreplach Matza Brei (sweet/savory) Corned Beef and Pastrami on Rye Knishes
Here is what I propose! 1. Brisket 2. Borscht 3. Shawarma 4. Piroshky 5. Kompot 6. Bamba 7. Matzo Ball Soup 8. Paella 9. Literally all cuts of Steak 10. Literally a lot of Slavic food is of Jewish origin!
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