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The Art of Jewish Cooking

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How happy I am to see "The Art of Jewish Cooking" still available to buy, although used, as my aged copy is well overdue for a replacement. The faded brown pages, now coverless and missing an index, still sport a spine, which notes the quaint price of 60¢. The dishes taste the same as those that my respective Romanian and Ukrainian grandmothers carried across the ocean in the early 1900s. I feel as if my grandmothers are in the kitchen with me as Jennie Grossinger has compiled their easy-to-follow delicious recipes augmented by typical menus and informative descriptions of the Jewish holidays. This modest book competes favorably with its glossy, richly photographed, modern cousins for it preserves the nostalgic flavors that are the essence of the European Jewish cuisine.

I have been using this cookbook for close to 30 years, and have worn out several paperback editions, so I finally got a hardcover!!!!!!!!!!I use this cook book the most of all my Jewish cookbooks because it's just like my grandmother's and my mother's cooking. The recipes are easy and very traditional, and can be adapted to low fat methods. I recommend this cookbook very highly, and I think it should be reprinted and made more widely available.

When I was away at college, I continually called my grandmother about recipes. One day, a large envelope came from her and this book dropped out.

I have many Jewish cookbooks and all are pretty good but I always go back to this book for food like my great-grandmother and my grandma made. Jennie Grossinger was the brains behind the kitchen at Grossinger's in The Catskill Mountains of New York.

The recipes are well-written, easy to understand and delicious everyone.

This is the cookbook that started it all and the book by which all other Jewish cookbooks aspire. It is homey and the recipes contained in its pages are sure to please your old-world longings or handed-down memories. Be forewarned that none of the original recipes are low-cal, low-fat anything and if you indulge, you can almost hear your arteries slamming shut. But just one taste of a light, fluffy matzo-ball . . . let me tell you, it's a machiah!

It was just what I was looking for. It was a gift for my 83 year old mother in law. She had this book for years and lost it. She loved it.

My wife has used this cookbook for years. Somhow her well worn copy was misplaced. I was fortunate to find one on Amazon