Tzimmes or tsimmes (Yiddish, Hebrew: צימעס) is a traditional Jewish casserole. It is a sweet dish, a combination of fruit, meat, and vegetables cooked slowly over very low heat, flavored with honey and sometimes cinnamon. There are endless variations on the theme. Yiddish (Yid. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית or עברית, ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... In cooking, a casserole (from the French for stew pan) is a dish consisting of tough cuts of meat, poultry or game stewed in liquid with vegetables and flavourings. ... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Catalonia. ... Various meats Cold Meat Salad Meat, in its broadest definition, is animal tissue used as food. ... Vegetables on a market Vegetable is a nutritional and culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary fruit, nut, herb, spice, or grain. ... A jar of honey, shown with a wooden honey server and scones. ... Binomial name Cinnamomum verum J.Presl Cassia (Indonesian cinnamon) is also commonly called (and sometimes sold as) cinnamon. ...

A tzimmes can be found in every good New Year's meal (see Rosh Hashanah). According to Leo Rosten, its name probably comes from the German words zum (to the) and essen (eating). This article is about the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. ... Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908–February 19, 1997) was an American teacher, academic and humorist best remembered for his stories about the night-school prodigy Hyman Kaplan (first published in The New Yorker in the 1930s, and later reprinted in two volumes—The Education of H*Y*M*A...