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The New Jewish Holiday Cookbook:
(Hardcover) by Gloria Kaufer Greene (Author) "SHABBAT,
OR "SABBATH" IN ENGLISH, IS THE MOST IMPORTANT holiday
of the Jewish calendar..." (more) Key Phrases: matzah
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From Library Journal
Jewish cookbooks have become a
rapidly burgeoning category. Appearing at the
beginning of the annual cycle that starts with
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, three of these four
new titles focus on Jewish holidays and holy days,
while Friedland's concentrates just on the
Sabbath. Greene's book, a revision of her 1985
title, is by far the most ambitious of the group,
with more than 250 recipes (80 or so entirely new,
the others thoroughly revised) for all the major
holidays and some minor ones, and including
Israel's Independence Day as well as religious
celebrations. A cooking teacher and the longtime
food editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times, Greene
also offers extensive background on each holiday,
and her diverse recipes are from all around the
globe. Highly recommended. |
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Recently, a growing number of Jews have
found themselves returning to their religious roots
and observances they have let lapse, making
Friedland's book on celebrating the Sabbath
particularly timely. A cookbook editor and author of
The Passover Cookbook, Friedland presents 175 recipes
for the three meals of Shabbat (Friday dinner,
Saturday lunch, and the "third meal," marking the end
of the Sabbath later on Saturday). Like Greene's, her
recipes are international in scope, reflecting both
the Ashkenazic and Sephardic heritages, and her text
is readable and informative. Recommended for most
collections. Brownstein, the former art director of
Good Housekeeping and House Beautiful, offers a
lavishly illustrated crafts book with recipes and
ideas for the holidays. For each holiday, there is a
menu, several crafts projects, and decorating
suggestions. Brownstein's approach will not be to
everyone's taste (the three sukkahs for Sukkot, for
example, include a "fantasy" Penthouse Sukkah,
"high-tech and sleek," but the minimatzo vases for the
Passover seder are pretty cute). For larger
collections. Rubin seems like a nice woman, but would
her cookbooks have been published if she weren't
actor/singer Mandy Patinkin's mother? Her second book,
which opens with "testimonials" from grandchildren and
other family members, includes recipes for
Thanksgiving, a bridal luncheon, and a barbecue as
well as for four major Jewish holidays. The recipes
are simple, and many of them rely on convenience
foods; some have little to do with traditional Jewish
holiday cooking (the buffet menu includes Mexicali
Layered Dip and two shellfish dishes). Only for
collections where Rubin's Grandma Doralee Patinkin's
Jewish Family Cookbook is popular. Copyright
1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From BooklistHolidays are the
anchor points for Jewish life. They illustrate the
ancient Hebrew stories, offering specific lessons
about Jewish history, new learning for the young, and
recollection for the old. Greene has expanded her
earlier cookbook for Jewish holidays, adding new
recipes that reflect even more holiday traditions.
Starting with the chief and weekly holiday, Sabbath,
Greene offers tasty recipes that occasionally draw on
ingredients outside traditional ones. Her cornbread
uses both cornmeal and canned creamed corn, thus
employing two forms of a grain not usually associated
with historic Jewish cuisine. Other recipes, such as
an Israeli potato-and-ground-beef casserole, seem
ordinary and unthreatening even to non-Jewish cooks.
Greene labels each recipe as "meat," "dairy," or "pareve"
so that readers may determine instantly how the recipe
correlates with dietary laws. Recommended for public
libraries serving Jewish populations. Mark Knoblauch
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Product Details
Hardcover: 560 pages
Publisher: Crown; Revised edition (September 7, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812929772
ISBN-13: 978-0812929775 |
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