2025
Rosh Hashanah by our grannies
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is approaching. This year, we’re coming into the holiday in a state of emotional disarray — not at all the way we’d hoped to. You may feel something similar.
So this time, we’re not just putting together a collection of recipes, we’re making the most hopecooking collection ever, to nourish our hope for better days.
And we decided to turn to our grandmothers. Even if they’re no longer with us, they would understand us like no one else. They too lived through strange times — and still, they went into the kitchen: poor, makeshift, rich, their own or borrowed, and started chopping apples and stirring honey.
We remembered our grandmothers, our friends’ grandmothers, and our readers’ grandmothers. Some of their recipes matched, others surprised us. So today, we offer you a grandmother’s table: cosy, warm, steady, and full of hope and the quiet confidence that we will get through this.
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Here are recipes from grandmothers in Morocco, Poland (she later moved to Israel), America, and England.
Shana Tova!
- Pumpkin and sweet potato soup
A soup that’s sweet, delicate, rich, and warm, like a hug from a Moroccan grandmother.
AI Photo - Brisket with warming spices
The cosiest mash and the most tender roasted meat, to warm you from the inside out, like in childhood, when little grandma from Lublin would cook a big Friday meal.
AI Photo - Salad with honey dressing
A sweet and crunchy salad, fresh yet delicate, unusual, the kind all the neighbours ask for the recipe after! Just as unexpected as the Hungarian grandmother who moved to California in 1949 and never lost her accent.
AI Photo - Apple cobbler
Hardly any dough, but so many apples! Grandma used to tell how, every autumn, they’d gather apples from the neighbours’ orchard in Suffolk to bake a cobbler for the whole village.
AI Photo - Circled challah with apples and dates filling
And the round challah with apples, simply a must-have!
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