Rosh Hashanah -- On Rosh Hashanah it is customary to eat foods that are sweet with flavor. This symbolizes the "sweetness and good fortune" of the New Year ahead. Foods flavored with honey, apples and carrots are commonly served. The Rosh Hashanah meal begins with apple and challah dipped in honey.

Challah -- the bread usually eaten on the Sabbath, is also specially prepared for the holiday. Instead of the traditional braided loaf, the Rosh Hashanah challah is round - symbolizing the cycle of the new year. The design of ladders or birds are added to the holiday challah by some families to commemorate the prayers rising to Heaven.

Matzah/Matzot -- a flat bread made without adding leavening which would be yeast or baking powder... any substance that makes the bread rise. It is eaten during Hag HaMatzot, The Feast of Unleavened Bread. The reason for the flat bread is that during the Exodus, the Israelites left Mitzrayim/Egypt in haste with their kneading troughs on their backs. Due to the haste of their departure their unbaked bread would not have had time to rise.