___ fish: Jewish delicacy

Usage examples of gefilte.

Arriving mainly from eastern Europe in the early twentieth century, these immigrants favored rich, fatty foods, such as lox, bagels, and gefilte fish.

Traditionally, housewives prepared chulent (a meat stew) gefilte fish, cakes, cookies and breads.

It he failed to aid Big Patsy, Wallace Gefilte Fish, and The Kerry Pig in making good their escape from the Constabulary, the three would beyond doubt find an occasion to tread and trample him into the consistency of a creole gumbo, even if they had to break stir to do it.

Every Jewish family had to have gefilte fish and chicken for the Sabbath dinner, no matter what they ate the rest of the week.

Alicja Cohen, eating gefilte fish hungrily, waved one of Bloom's forks under her daughter's nose.

He calms them down, talks for a while, eats some gefilte fish and a little bread, shakes them all by the hand - and vanishes.

The man had all the personality and spontaneity of an overaged cake of warm gefilte fish.