This Sephardic Rosh Hashanah soup is steeped in symbolism

This story originally appeared on The Nosher.

Every Rosh Hashanah, my mother Rica made a special and delicious simanim soup, which contained all the "simanim" (signs), symbolic vegetables that are used in the Sephardic Rosh Hashanah seder. Rooted in Kabbalah and with a clever play on the Aramaic names of the vegetables, at the seder, Sephardim say blessings over these vegetables, which include butternut squash, zucchini and Swiss chard.

My mother and father were born in Larache, an ancient port city founded by the Phoenicians on the northwestern coast of Morocco. Providentially located where t...