Jewish New Year Meal
Sephardic dishes feature all those plus apricots dates and pumpkins.
Jewish new year meal. Over the centuries it has become associated with many food customs for instance eating sweet food to symbolize our hopes for a sweet new year. In britain this festival normally falls in early autumn and marks the start of a ten day period known as the days of awe initiated by the ritual of blowing a. Ashkenazi dishes feature apples carrots sweet potatoes beets and other foods native to eastern europe.
In addition to dipping the apple in the honey jewish people also frequently eat honey cake pomegranates and round raisin loaves of challah to see in the new year. Rosh hashanah ראש השנה is the jewish new year. Symbolic foods of the jewish new year.
Pomegranate apples and honey. The pomegranate is also a highly symbolic fruit eaten by the jewish people during the new year.