Challah is traditionally baked on Fridays in Jewish households, and it symbolizes the start of the Sabbath, a time of rest. It's enriched with eggs and sweetened just enough to make an ordinary Friday ...

FARGO - Every holiday season, I Google like crazy to get ideas for new dishes to make for Christmas breakfast. I'm not crazy about egg bakes or quiche and making mounds of pancakes and waffles for a ...

Just about every Friday, on the eve of Shabbat, I make challah, the Jewish enriched, braided bread. I make it so often, the process has become a kitchen dance where I’m guided by muscle memory. I know ...

Jill Crimmings smoothly rolls three balls of challah dough into even strands. She lifts them, joining them together with a pinch, before laying them down to braid. But the loaf of challah, the ...

Easter is a time to pull out all the traditional culinary stops and for many that means making braided sweet bread embedded with eggs for the Easter table. In many cultures, eggs are considered a new ...

NEXT ON CHRONICLE. MANDY SILVERMAN BECAME DETERMINED TO MASTER BAKING BRAIDED BREAD OVER A DECADE AGO, SPECIFICALLY A BREAD BOTH DELICIOUS AND MEANINGFUL TO PEOPLE OF THE JEWISH FAITH. IT’S PART OF ...

Three years ago, while in Philadelphia during April vacation, I became fascinated with the Easter breads on display in the bakeries in Reading Terminal Station. There were Eastern European sweet yeast ...