Arthur Schwartz's Matzoh Balls For Starchefs Arthur Schwartz is a cookbook author, cooking teacher and host of Arthur Schwartz with Food Talk, a daily program heard on WOR radio. On Sundays, his program is heard in 50 markets across the U.S. and Canada. Matzoh balls are one of the culinary mysteries of the universe. I can list the answers, specify the ingredients, outline the procedures, and reveal all the tricks, and you may still not get the result you desire, whatever that desired result may be.
Every family has a different idea about the perfect matzoh ball.
In any case, it is just one of those things for which you have to have a hand, either innate or learned, and perhaps the right spiritual and emotional vibrations. I say this as one Jewish cook who does not have the hand. Then there was this situation just a few years ago when I made Someone Else's Revolutionary Matzoh Ball Recipe. Out of duty to my listeners, I felt I had to test this bizarre recipe from a Long Island restaurateur who is famous for his matzoh balls. The man doesn't as much as scramble an egg for himself the rest of the year, but on Passover he makes hundreds of matzoh balls for his restaurant customers.