Author: Lisa Goldberg

Lisa embraces the part of Jewish culture which embodies the saying ‘it’s always about the food’. She is a fresser with an unbridled passion for eating, cooking and nurturing those around her with food. Her legal background has given her a great foundation to help guide – and work side by side with – this truly amazing bunch of kind, funny and enlightening women to produce and publish four extraordinary cookbooks. She feels incredibly grateful to have had (and still has) the opportunity – since 2006 – to spend so much of her time dedicated to, and fully immersed in, such a delicious, inspiring and worthwhile project.

Smoked Trout Fish Cakes

By Lisa GoldbergIn RecipesPosted April 26, 2026

I want to call these ‘Jewish Fried Fish Cakes’. They have so many elements that feel like Jewish home cooking. My Polish grandfathers both adored fried fish. Crumbed and fried patties, or cocletten, a Yiddish word I got from my mum, also feel Jewish. To top it off, the smoked...