It’s an exciting and delicious time for those of us celebrating Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) this week. This festival has great religious and cultural significance to many, but we – the Monday Morning Cooking Club girls – as always, focus on the other important aspect of Jewish festivals – the food. The two questions on everyone’s lips are ”What are you cooking this year?” and ”How moist is your honey cake?” As the title of our new book proclaims, it is always about the food. And it’s especially about the honey cake.
We celebrate for two days, which translates into (at least) two feasts, tables groaning with food, surrounded by family and friends. Some gather for a dinner on ”new year’s eve” and a lunch the next day, others do two dinners but skip the lunches, and some even do two dinners, two lunches plus honey cake breaks during the daylight hours. Whatever we do, however we celebrate, the food lures us to the table to sit together and have time to talk, to laugh, to argue and to celebrate another year.
Read the full article at Good Food.