Before Christmas, one is reminded of the smell of "chestnuts roasting on an open fire". Before Passover, one is reminded of the smell of...toast.

Five Are Burned in Pre-Passover Fire Ritual in Brooklyn

Yesterday, as the first evening of Passover was beginning, it was unusually blustery, and in the city's heavily Jewish neighborhoods, sidewalks were ablaze with small fires that were difficult to control. In Borough Park, the air smelled of toast.