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46 Celebratory Recipes to Make for Rosh Hashanah This Year
Think: fluffy challah, saucy brisket, and ultra-moist apple cake.
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14 Comments
Rosalind P.
September 24, 2022
I was about to write about the baking recipes that include dairy ingredients and suggest that recipes for Jewish holidays please respect the kosher requirements: NO DAIRY WITH MEAT MEALS. Then I saw that others had written expressing the same point -- and very eloquently. Please, Food 52, show you pay attention. I know that some of your principals are Jewish, and are probably familiar with this most basic rule, even if they don't follow it. It is severely disappointing that you continue to perpetuate your mis-step. Nothing wrong with a clever "oops" and a correction. Please?
Marya K.
September 24, 2022
No one at Food 52 cares. Otherwise they’d have responded and changed in the past few years. So disappointing.
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September 24, 2022
It’s pretty upsetting to read the article, see the comments (from as much as 3 years back) explaining why milk braised brisket is an affront to our culture, our religion. The simple note of “this is not kosher by any means” is insulting at the least. A recipe like that shouldn’t be in an article that is specific to the observation and celebration of our highest holy days, period. I love cheeseburgers and I don’t mind having a sip of a milkshake when I do, but I’d never serve it to my family on a holiday…or make the suggestion. For such a wonderful food publication this is such a huge disappointment.
seahorse1340
November 29, 2021
I thought Yon Kippur was the Jewish New Year, not Rosh Hashanah?
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September 24, 2022
The Jewish New Year starts with the observation of Rosh Hashanah. It follows through the observation of Yom Kippur.
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September 2, 2021
A year later, after multiple requests to remove the milk-braised brisket recipe, it’s still here. Excellent job at listening to feedback. It almost seems that someone really wants to be contrary to the very community they’re pretending to serve with this list. Super asshole move.
creamtea
September 8, 2021
Fully agree with you. This is not boundary-pushing as Marya K. suggests below, it's culturally disrespectful. F52 would not commit this sort of aggression with any other community. There is beauty in our traditions. F42 needs to respect that.
Hannah
September 19, 2020
I’ve realized that food 52 doesn’t have a kosher section in their “special considerations” options when looking for recipes. This really should be remediated for any future Jewish Holiday compilations.
Marya K.
September 19, 2020
How could your lovely staff include a milk-braised brisket on a list of Jewish holiday recipes? This isn’t just a cultural boundary-pusher, it’s equivalent to offering a beef recipe for a Hindu holiday, or drinks recipes for Latter Day Saints and Baptists. Others have expressed distress over this recipe. Please take it down from this list. Not every brisket recipe is Jewish. Some may eat cheeseburgers, but to flout the exact wording of the prohibition? On a religious holiday? No. I love your recipes, and your lists for holidays, but this eroded my trust in Food52. Please do the right thing and substitute another recipe.
amyinCT
September 15, 2020
Milk braised Brisket??? Anchovy puffs? You need to do some research on foods that are acceptable in a kosher household. While not everyone is strictly kosher, recommending menu items that are glaringly in violation of the rules smacks of cultural insensitivity.
creamtea
August 12, 2020
While it's nice to have a heads up for R"H ideas, I feel there's no real need to provide a recipe combining milk and meat for this most traditional of holidays, when so many other great options exist, whether meat-based or vegetarian, traditional or adventurous. It just feels off....
Ruth A.
July 16, 2019
It's too early to think about what I'm making for Rosh Hashanah, which starts on September 29. Also too hot.
But I'm hoping to make Samin Nosrat's Russian Honey Cake from the New York Times that I didn't get around to last year.
Or at least the slightly less involved recipe for something similar that I recently saw on Smitten Kitchen.
But I'm hoping to make Samin Nosrat's Russian Honey Cake from the New York Times that I didn't get around to last year.
Or at least the slightly less involved recipe for something similar that I recently saw on Smitten Kitchen.
Nancy
September 28, 2016
Lovely concept (the round things) and article.
Here are 3 dishes in my rotation for these meals:
Rosh Hashanah SEDER (as in this thread):
https://food52.com/blog/8002-the-rosh-hashanah-seder-plate
Pierre Herme Pain d'epices (FRENCH HONEY CAKE that is very edible), using Dorie Greenspan's reprint of his recipe
Gateau de patates douces (SWEET POTATO CAKE with a lovely chocolate topping)...delicious, old, traditional Algerian recipe, now also useful for guests who need or want to eat gluten free.
Here are 3 dishes in my rotation for these meals:
Rosh Hashanah SEDER (as in this thread):
https://food52.com/blog/8002-the-rosh-hashanah-seder-plate
Pierre Herme Pain d'epices (FRENCH HONEY CAKE that is very edible), using Dorie Greenspan's reprint of his recipe
Gateau de patates douces (SWEET POTATO CAKE with a lovely chocolate topping)...delicious, old, traditional Algerian recipe, now also useful for guests who need or want to eat gluten free.
Nancy
September 9, 2021
Thanks for Amy, Christy, Creamtea, Hannah, Marya and Ruth for pointing out the inept recommendation first time around (and callous continued inclusion) of foods combining milk and meat for a major Jewish holiday.
Dear food52 editor (Caroline Lange or whoever handles this article since 2016). Please do a better job Jewish holiday articles...editorial content should be appropriate and timing more useful (neither two-three months in advance, nor merely the day of the holiday). Better timing would be about two weeks in advance.
Dear food52 editor (Caroline Lange or whoever handles this article since 2016). Please do a better job Jewish holiday articles...editorial content should be appropriate and timing more useful (neither two-three months in advance, nor merely the day of the holiday). Better timing would be about two weeks in advance.
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