Solemn and sweet: Festive tables of the high holidays

During the holidays, most people prepare the foods from their culture. Rosh Hashanah brought out the best of Jewish foods. - - Donna Poisl

By Anna Herman, For The Inquirer

Every cuisine exists as part of a story. One part of the story told by Jewish foods is of migration, assimilation, and now-vanished worlds.

Eastern Europe, Spain, Russia, Yemen, Greece, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, and Bukhara in what is now Uzbekistan were all once home to large and vibrant Jewish communities. As these old communities were forced to disband and regroup in the diaspora, the foods of their past became an important link in their new lines.

So the story of modern Jewish food is one of a dynamic, multicultural cuisine.
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