Golden-brown, sesame seed-covered braided challah loaves sit on a wooden cutting board - Olga Mazyarkina/Getty Images The idea of baking sweet, eggy challah at home can be daunting. Jewish cooking ...

Beautifully braided, rich, and lightly sweet, freshly baked challah is delicious on its own or smeared with softened butter. After a few days, it's great dunked in custard and made into French toast ...

A soupcon of obsession isn’t a bad thing to have in a Jewish holiday kitchen. It sends cooks in search of briskets that are less cloying and honey cakes that won’t stick to the back of one’s throat.

The Jewish holidays are early this year. Really early. (You know what they say – they’re either early or late, but never on time!) For Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which began last night, ...

Six-strand braid (see photos above): This, incredibly, is easier than it seems. Cut dough for one loaf into 6 pieces and roll into ropes about 12 inches long, thick in center with tapered ends. Line ...

Have you always wanted to braid a loaf of challah? There's an event at the end of this month that will teach you how. Also, find out about organic bulk vegetable sales, a grape-growers workshop, and a ...

In a large bowl using a whisk combine the yeast, sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and 1 cup of the flour. Add the warm milk, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons of olive oil, then the honey. (Add the olive oil first, ...

As the sun sets Monday night, those celebrating the Jewish New Year 5755 turn their thoughts to the year that has passed and the one that awaits. It is the beginning of the Jewish High Holidays, ...

Bernie Friedman came to Olympia via Brooklyn in 1975. At home, Friedman could visit a Jewish bakery every three or four blocks. In Olympia, he couldn't get his hands on a good blintz, bagel or loaf of ...