Passover Food Restrictions

Keeping kosher with recipes for Passover and other kosher recipes is a great way to stay connected to your Jewish heritage while instilling religious values in your children. But if you're looking to feel even closer to the old country, chances are it will involve some yiddish. Read on for some classic Yiddish words and phrases relating to food, including words that have become commonplace among Anglophones.

Bagel: A native of Krakow, Poland, the bagel has appeared to compete with bublik - denser, drier dough circle. It has become a tradition for observant Jews to bake the bagels after the Sabbath on Saturday evening, bagels take less time to make bread that most other products.

Blinis: Crepe-like pastry with sweet filling, typically cheese. Unlike pancakes, blini pancakes are made with yeast. Blini are often served during Chanukah and Shavuot.

Challa: common bread on Shabbat dinners, although forbidden in recipes for Passover.

Chazz: This article describes a pig - or, more often, someone who eats like a pig. There is also chazzerei (feeding pigs, or junk food) and the expression bleibt Chaze a chaser ("a pig is a pig").

ET Er vi noch a Krenke: "He eats like he just got over a sickness."

vi er a Frest Ferd: "He eats like a horse."

Essen: part of a large number of other expressions, Essen means "eat". We also see in gezunterhait SST ("eat healthy") and Essen mitik (to eat at noon).

Fleishig: A product containing meat.

Fressen / fress: Fressen describes a more intense form of eating - about Pigging. There is also the fressing American origin (gluttony) and fresser umzitztiger (a freeloader who wants to eat your food).

flaysh Gedempte: A stranger - or "mystery" - meat.

Gelt: Although this can mean real money, gelt is usually used to describe the chocolate pieces popular during Hanukkah.

Hak flaish: ground meat.

Kasheh: The cuisine is fresh kasheh cereal or porridge, but it can also be used to describe a confused mess.

Kreplach: meatballs filled ravioli recalls. In other contexts, kreplach can be used to mean something worthless.

Latka: Even popular among the heathen, potato pancakes are pancakes usually served during Chanukah. The pancakes are cooked in oil, which for some represents the oil flame durable that inspired the holiday.

Lox: A friend historic bagel, lox is a salmon fillet covered with a brine solution. Lox was popularized in the United States by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.

Milchig: a dairy product.

Nosh: A word widely used to describe the snacking. Usually you food on a nosherie (snacks).

Parveh: food that is not milchig (milk) or fleishig (meat). It is also considered neutral.

Passover: It's easy - Pesach is the Yiddish word for Passover. Due to special dietary restrictions, there are many recipes created specifically for Passover holiday.

Schmaltz: Describes a type of fat or grease, usually melted fat from a chicken. In modern usage, Schmaltz can also describe the more sentimental over-.

Schmeer (or schmear): A gap on a bagel, such as cheese and cream.

Shtark gehert: Literally "completely understood, this expression is used to rank foods smelly.

Traif: non-kosher food. A traifnyak is a person who eats traif, or who is generally hated.

ESS Wen ich, ich alles ch'ob in fear: Literally, this phrase means "When I eat, I have everything in the ground, but you can substitute" I do not care about anyone else "for This last part.

VEE EST Zee a Feigel "She eats like a bird." Probably because she knows no good kosher recipes!