With Passover less than a week away, it's time to start talking matzo. (Or matzoh, matza, or matzah.) The
unleavened, cracker-like sheets are fun to munch on the first night of Seder (which falls on
Monday, March 29, this year), but after a few days into the holiday, you need to change things up. Matzagna anyone?
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This tour of the Aviv matzo factory in Bnei-Brak, Israel, has everything you could want in a video about making matzo: an enthusiastic host who converses with his own narration and makes silly jokes, plenty of cartoonlike sound effects, and random pop-up notes with facts about the factory. This is officially my favorite video about matzo. Watch the matzo go from dough to box after the jump....
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I've seen a mobile wood-burning pizza oven in Chicago, but I have to say I've never heard of a school bus turned into a wood-burning oven to make matzo....
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