Articles by Phil Bova

What's The Difference?

The Jewish holidays were always special when I was growing up. I always went to my Aunt Lilly's house. What a cook! My tongue was in ecstasy days later. One thing Aunt Lilly made that almost wafted me to paradise were "kneidlach," or—as they're mundanely called—matzo balls. "What's the difference?" you say. The difference is—you really have to be Jewish with Yiddish as your main language—the texture. Most matzo balls are simply "fluff," with exceptions, of course. Kneidlach don't float to the top but sink to the bottom of the bowl. Kneidlach can sometime double as hockey pucks. That's the big difference!

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