Tzimmes

Word TZIMMES
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A stew of fruit or vegetables traditionally served on Rosh Hashana noun

A stew of fruit or vegetables traditionally served on Rosh Hashanah.

1. A Jewish stew of sweetened vegetables or vegetables and fruit, sometimes with meat. 2. A fuss or muddle Urban Dictionary

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The word "tzimmes" in example sentences

So often did Jews go ‘to the eating’ and find a sweet vegetable or fruit stew on the table that the stew itself took on the name tzimmes and so did any mixed-up, troublesome, or messy situation. ❋ Laurie Burrows Grad (1987)

According to Patti Shosteck in A Lexicon of Jewish Cooking Contemporary Books, 1979: The Yiddish word tzimmes comes from two German words, zum and essen, meaning ‘to the eating.’ ❋ Laurie Burrows Grad (1987)

On Medjool’s menu, medjool dates lurk in several spots — with couscous, of course, but most intriguingly as the catalytic converter of braised short ribs into what my grandmother would have called a tzimmes, ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our private chef for the Seder has created a fabulous menu which showcases a variety of local flavors while recreating some of the traditional tastes of Passover like matzo balls and tzimmes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If there was one thing better than watching her bake, it was eating the results afterward: challah loaf, bagels, blintzes, honey cake, rugelach, kugel, and tzimmes. ❋ Tara Heavey (2010)

My father-in-law would have said they were always making a tzimmes. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

Holocaust survivors and other immigrant women pass on their memories of the food — and life — they once knew by preparing lokshen kugel (noodle pudding), tzimmes (stewed carrots), mandelbrot (a strudel-like butter cookie) and kreplach (dumplings), providing their children and grandchildren with a “taste of the past” that reflects their cultural and geographic origins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The meal was full of wonderful foods and full of memories: David's grandmother's pot roast, tzimmes (sweet potatoes, carrots, and prunes), mandelbrot (Jewish biscotti kosher for Passover). ❋ The Raven (2007)

Mr. Kaplan quips that “not since the Middle Ages, when rival popes at Rome and Avignon divided the Roman Catholic Church, had an issue of legitimacy stirred up such a tzimmes.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

He makes a tzimmes out of [everything], he [needs] to [calm] himself. ❋ Nerd._. (2019)

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