Some dishes just drip with family memories and Jewish history. That’s the case for Ruth Zimbler, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor when it comes to kasha varnishkes, a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish dish ...

Jeffrey Eisner ‘s love of cooking took his career in a direction he never could have imagined. The founder of Pressure Luck Cooking, Eisner is the bestselling author of the “Step-by-Step Instant Pot” ...

Kasha Varnishkes is a traditional Jewish dish that combines the nutty flavor of kasha (roasted buckwheat groats) with bowtie pasta. This classic recipe has been passed down through generations, and it ...

What would you do with a one-pound bag of toasted buckwheat groats, a.k.a. kasha? If you’re like most Ashkenazi Jews, you’d probably cook up kasha varnishkes, the Jewish “soul food” side dish made of ...

Kasha is not the main ingredient here, so I wouldn’t call this a grain salad, but rather a substantial leafy green salad with grain. I love pairing this nutty grain with both cooked and raw spinach, ...

I grew up eating kasha varnishkes, a mix of kasha, onions, mushrooms and noodles. I liked it then, but now it seems a world away from how we cook and eat. What still works is the winning combination ...

The recipe for this classic Eastern European Jewish dish of caramelized onions tossed with bow tie egg noodles and buckwheat groats comes from author and essayist Phillip Lopate. When this dish ...

When Alexandra Shytsman was a little girl in Odessa, Ukraine, she was often at her mother’s side in the kitchen. At age 9, she moved to Brooklyn, adapting many American ways of life. But she held on ...

I like adding cooked grains to a frittata, but you have to choose just the right one; it should be soft, not too chewy. Rice works, and so does bulgur. But if you want to add a grain that will ...

For many people in the U.S., the phrase “Jewish cooking” calls to mind a specific kind of dish: “heavy, old-fashioned, and maybe not very good for one’s health,” says Kim Lim, assistant editor at ...