My own favorite use for the stuff is matzo brei, a scramble of broken matzo and eggs.
Thanks to a chance encounter years ago, I learned that matzo brei is also a dish of infinite adaptability.
But she says she was aghast when friends laced a fake bug near the matzo standing in for the Biblical locusts.
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The three-story matzo oven once used by Aron Streit and Rabbi Weinberger remains in the house to this day, unused for decades.
We continued walking, and by the time I handed the section to him, we were in front of Streit's Matzo factory his matzo factory.
Useless was definitely there, including a piece of matzo laser-etched with actor Leonard Nimoy's image, a rocket-powered motorcycle built by a Brooklyn, N.
On the surface, "Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream" reads as a story about New York Jews making a movie about New York Jews.
At Passover, millions of Jews forgo leavened grain and eat matzo, tricking out the cracker in various ways to mask its essential, incontrovertible blandness.
He first tried the high-tech version three years ago, and was gratified that guests were actually engaged and not itching to get to the matzo ball soup or the brisket.
It sounds simple, and it is, but what happens when the matzo soaks up some egg and fries in a generous slick of fat is at the same time profound: What was dry and severe becomes plush and custardy.
During filming, a longtime factory hand told Mr. Levine about the townhouse on Pitt Street where Aron Streit and a partner, Rabbi Moshe Weinberger, made matzo from 1916 to 1925, at which point Streit's moved four blocks to its current location and Weinbrger stayed behind, making matzos into the '40s.
But it's also about capturing the characters within the story, not least the factory's employees, some of whom have been making matzo at Streit's for decades like the emigre who boxed for the Soviets in the 1964 Olympics, the Honduran former lawyer, and the Jewish immigrants from Uzbekistan, once forced to make matzo in secret in their native country, now doing so with pride at Streit's.
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