After my first column appeared last May, in which I asked readers to share their family recipes, the following email from Cynthia Tauber of San Mateo arrived in my inbox: “A ‘boureka’ is my favorite ...

Jake Cohen’s new cookbook “Jew-ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes From a Modern Mensch,” is not just about food, it’s about family, culture and taps into what makes us who we are. During a recent ...

If there’s one thing you can count on with any Jewish holiday, it’s that there will be lots of delicious Jewish foods on the table. That’s probably why my favorite memories of any holiday are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is definitely too early to be talking about picnics, but we have them on our minds. The trees that explode ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Bourekas can be made with many kinds of pastries and fillings. My preference is for a flaky pastry ...

While blintzes and cheesecake are the stars of Ashkenazi celebrations of Shavuot, bourekas (flaky, stuffed pastries) figure prominently in Sephardic traditions. They can feature any number of fillings ...

This article originally appeared on The Nosher. Bourekas were one of the foods I fell in love with hard while in Israel for the first time. I am a sucker for pastry filled with, well, basically ...

I believe that Jewish cooking is a key to bringing and keeping Jews together. I married a Sephardic man and my bridge to becoming Sephardic was through food, and bourekas were one of the first ...