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“The Torah contains rules about Seder and what you must eat. It talks about the Paschal lamb, maror and matzah but it doesn’t include charoset.”
Weingarten explains charoset doesn’t get a mention for several hundred years, when it appears in the Mishnah’s list of traditions many years later — in the third century CE.
Weingarten has pored over religious texts, archive materials and the only surviving Greco-Roman cookery book to discover the when, what and how of this tasty dip