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“Your Strong Buzz Guide to Rosh Hashanah Eats!”

If you’re celebrating the Jewish New Year (which begins on Sundown on September 29th), you’ve probably already begun thinking about what you’ll be serving for dinner, other than guilt with a side of apples and honey.

If you’re itching to try and cook a homemade feast for your friends and family, I urge you to pick up a copy of Arthur Schwartz’s latest cookbook: Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited ($35, Ten Speed Press). He’s got several recipes that will turn your table into a mouthwatering buffet— plates of pickled lox with pumpernickel slathered with sweet butter, moist pot-roasted brisket, sweet and sour stuffed cabbage, and more traditional old world dishes like shlishkas (Hungarian potato dumplings), and of course, the crown prince of all Jewish meals: chicken soup.

If you’re looking for a great Glatt kosher butcher shop, try Le Marais (150 West 46th Street, (212) 869-0900 www.lemarais.net) where they’ve just started carrying kosher wagyu beef from Strube Ranch in Pittsburg, Texas. Retail prices range from $29/lb hanger steak, $85/lb rib eye, $75/lb bone-in prime rib and $31/lb chuck strip. Next day nationwide delivery is available.

If cooking is not happening, then get on the phone to Hill Country and order up one of their (not kosher, but delicious) pit-smoked beef brisket, offered in moist or lean, whole and untrimmed, (averaging 7-9 pounds) for pick-up and delivery at $20 a pound. The brisket will be available September 28th – October 9th; instructions for how to re-heat and carve the brisket will also be included. Orders and delivery requests must be placed 48 hours in advance and require a $50 deposit. Call 212-255-4544 x21 or visit www.hillcountryny.com.

If you’d rather eat out, head up to Toloache (251 W. 50th Street, 212-581-1818) where chef-owner Julian Medina is serving his yearly Mexican Rosh Hashanah Dinner on Tuesday September 30th and Wednesday October 1st with reservations from 5pm-11pm. His menu includes Pescado Ahumado—housed-smoked whitefish salad Yucatan style and chips ($15), Tacos de Cordero Agridulce—leg of lamb steamed in banana leaf with tamarind and pickled prune jalapeno salsa ($13), Pollo con Granada—chicken breast with kabocha puree, chile de arbol pomegranate salsa ($25), and for dessert, Pastel de Aguacate—honey piloncillo avocado cake with roasted apple salsa and date walnut ice cream ($8).

Wishing you all a happy, healthy and sweet New Year!

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Posted: September 18, 2008

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