What’s so special about matzo? After all, it’s nothing more than flour and water baked to a cracker-like thinness. Not especially digestible either, especially after eating it as the default bread for the entire week of Passover when chametz (leavened or risen bread and leavened products) are forbidden. Related Matzo Brei With Fresh Herbs and…
If you’re like me, you have so much matzo in the house that you’ll be snacking on the stuff for at least two weeks after Passover has ended. This year, I wanted to experiment a little bit and find a different way to enjoy the abundance of leftover unleavened bread. These fried balls of matzo…
Ted Cruz is a passionate evangelical Christian, and seems to sincerely share the evangelical love of Israel and its people. So maybe it wasn’t so surprising that Cruz made a last-minute visit to a Brooklyn matzo factory yesterday, just weeks before Passover begins later this month. The entire experience was awkward and fast-paced, so politics…
Ahead of the presidential primaries in New York, Ted Cruz helped Jewish children make matzo in Brooklyn. At the Chabad-run Model Matzo Bakery in Brighton Beach Thursday evening, the Texas senator and Republican presidential hopeful led some 15 children in making the unleavened Passover bread, singing “roll, roll, roll the matzah dough.” WATCH: @TedCruz makes…
The oldest family-owned matzo company in the United States, Streit’s Matzo, is in contract to sell its Lower East Side factory buildings for a reported $30.5 million. According to New York real estate blog , a deed was filed with the city May 11 confirming the sale of the 90-year-old buildings to Cogswell Realty, a…
Read the interview with Leah. Over the last decade, matzo lasagna has quickly and emphatically entered the Passover mainstream. Its rise has partly to do with the need it fills for a substantive main dish to serve during the holiday’s weeklong bread ban. The other reason for its popularity? It’s delicious, and remarkably so. Softened…
Read the interview with Leah. Breakfast can be tough going during Passover. With toast, bagels, cereal, waffles, muffins, oatmeal and pretty much every other starchy breakfast staple off the menu, the options are seriously limited. Enter this granola. The crumbled matzo that replaces the typical rolled oats gets toasty and crisp in the oven, and…
Workers prepare final batches of matzos at Streit’s matzo factory. Photo by Julie Botnick “This is the bread of affliction,” we say on Passover, holding up the dry, flat matzo that will be ubiquitous in our lives for the next week. Anyone who has eaten it daily for the whole holiday knows that the affliction…
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