A case for a more colorful, inclusive, and efficient holiday dinner.
Passover is a Jewish holiday that’s been celebrated for thousands of years. Needless to say, the traditions we observe for it are… also old. To celebrate, Jewish families like mine have a big feast called a Seder on the first two nights of the 8-day holiday. It’s a ceremony that has carefully prescribed rituals, including several special dishes and foods that need to be placed on the table in order to properly perform the Passover Seder.
When I was a kid, my mother held my siblings and I hostage for three days before we hosted the Passover seder. We’d have to polish the silverware, press the linens, set the table, help prep vegetables, and lay out our clothes. My mother’s stress was palpable and for good reason: We’d usually have at least 20 people over for dinner, and she wanted everything to be perfect.
Without abandoning the sentimental traditions everyone loves about Passover, myself included, I’m here to give some tips and tricks on how to modernize the event. Despite the Seder being a formal holiday, modern hosting can look a bit different. Gone are the days of sterile entertaining where the goal is Emily Post’s idea of perfection—instead, we welcome a more casual approach to hosting that puts emphasis on spending intimate time with family over being isolated in the kitchen.
every year. To me, modernizing means being more efficient, more inclusive, adding more color, spending more time with family all whilst respecting the Passover traditions.The Seder ceremony revolves around the Seder plate, displaying the foods that are symbolic to the Passover story. There are six traditional ingredients—beitzah , maror , charoset , karpas , chazeret , and zeroah —but many families have begun including other items to represent modern social justice issues.
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