Matza meal is matza that has been ground to the consistency of coarse bread crumbs. Matza meal is used in some cooking. On Passover especially, many people bake and cook with matza meal because it is not feasible to bake a cake in 18 minutes. Matza balls have a lot of matza meal in them, as you can imagine. Not all Jews will use matza meal on passover, however. Some Jews do not eat Gebrukts, matza with liquids on it. They are afraid that maybe there is still some flour that didn't get mixed with water and therefor has not been cooked and can still rise, which is forbidden on Passover. For that reason, some Orthodox Jews will not eat matza with spreads on it, and for the same reason will not eat anything baked with matza meal or any other matza by-product.
Joshua Matza was born on 1931-08-08.
Matza isn't eaten during Purim. There is no tradition that addresses eating matza on Purim. It is treated as any other food.
Rosita Matza has written: 'Autre temps, autres moeurs'
Matza restaurant suicide bombing happened on 2002-03-31.
There is no record of when Matza balls were first used. The patriarch Abraham already used Matza in 2000 BCE - so maybe his wife Sara made him Matza balls.
Matza goes great with many things. My personal favorites are Matza with cream cheese, cream cheese and jellie, and Matza with cheese cooked onto it. Be aware, however, that on Passover some don't put spreads on their matza - called gebrukts, because there might be some flour that didn't get mixed with water, and the spread will make it become chametz.
Exodus ch.12.
Matza meal is not like cake meal - for making a cake. Matza meal is ground up matza so that you can bake with it. It can sometimes be used in the place of flour to make cakes, cookies etc but you can not always substitute for flour as the properties are very different. Flour is used to make matza, it is mixed with water and baked quickly. I wouldn't make your own Matza, as the laws of rising can be complicated.
3 pieces, one in each slit of the matzo cover
One of the 3 pieces of Matza - usually the middle one is used for Yachatz - the 4th part of the Seder - where the middle Matza is broken into 2 uneven pieces. The larger piece is kept for the Afikomen-dessert and the smaller piece - symbolizing Matza as the bread of affliction is kept on the Seder plate. Every meal on a Shabbat and Jewish festival requires 2 whole loaves of bread to be used during HaMotzi - the blessing over bread. Since on Passover bread is substituted with Matza, so we need 2 whole Matzot on the Seder plate. So we need 3 Matzot on the Seder plate: 2 for the HaMotzi, and one to be broken.
We call it matza, which is its name in the Torah (Exodus ch.12).