Working Class Foodies Present Five Fresh Recipes for the High Holidays
 
Shana Tova, Hungry Nation. It’s the eve of the Jewish New Year and Working Class Foodies is back with a Fresh Five to help you cook for the celebrations. The New Year, also known as Rosh Hashanah, is the first day of the high holidays in the Jewish faith. It leads up to Yom Kippur, the day when you must atone for a year’s worth of sins so that your name may be written into the Book of Life for one year more. No big deal, right?
 
The New Year begins at sundown tonight and lasts through Friday, September 30th and Yom Kippur falls on October 8th, 2011, ten days later. The first High Holiday is all about celebrating, the second is a day full of fasting and self-reflection. But, you better believe food plays a major role in both! After all, what better way to end a day full of not eating than feasting after sundown?

Rebecca of Working Class Foodies covers all the basics one would need to cook up an ample High Holiday spread. If you ask us, any respectable dinner has a bread component, whether an aperitif, snack or entrée complement- and it’s only fitting to have Challah for the high holidays. Rebecca explains that the egg-based bread is traditionally baked in a circle for Rosh Hashanah to represent the circle of life and time. Thus, her first Fresh Five recommendation is a link to a lesson on how to braid Challah. And really, New Year or not, everyone wants to learn how to braid bread.  
 
For Rosh Hashanah, it is also custom to dip apples in honey for a sweet and fruitful new year. If you want to up the ante, try another one of Rebecca’s Fresh Five recs: a simple apple cake, with a honey drizzle. Feel free to use the High Holidays as an excuse to make this delicious dessert, but honestly watching the video may be all the motivation you need.   
And it’s not all carbs, we promise. We just happened to focus on them in this post because they are so dang tasty. Rebecca also has two savory entrees and a Matzo Ball recipe to round out the five, but we guess you’ll just have to watch to learn more.
 
So happy cooking, Hungry Nation! We’ll see you at sundown.