Hadassah Jewish Holiday Cookbook [Hardcover]

Joan Michel (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 14, 2003

Should matzo balls be firm or fluffy? Plain or filled? Made with chicken fat, oil, or marrow? These questions and others are addressed in this recipe collection from the celebrated cooks of Hadassah, the Jewish women’s volunteer organization. Over 250 Jewish holiday recipes are offered and include varieties of nostalgic must-haves - from chicken soup to borscht, kreplach to kishka, Grandma's honey cake to Israel's sufganiyot - and twists on the basics - challahs (seeds or honey), latkes (carrot or potato), and harosets (from Surinam to Africa). Reminiscences by top Jewish chefs and 76 enticing color photographs by acclaimed food photographer Louis Wallach accompany the recipes.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Hadassah is a Jewish organization similar to the Junior League and like the latter has periodically published local Hadassah cookbooks. Now for the first time they have produced a national Hadassah cookbook, filling it with time-honored and well-tested favorites, many with a modern twist. Based on the Jewish festival calendar, the book is divided seasonally, starting with the Sabbath and working through the festivals from the New Year to the Shavuot spring festival. Each section includes wonderful topical commentaries by such well-known Jewish food writers as Joan Nathan, Claudia Roden and Steven Raichlen. The recipes are provided by Hadassah members from throughout the U.S. and Israel who impart family heirlooms, traditional favorites and modern variations ranging from the classic Traditional Chicken Soup and Blintzes to the contemporary Pistachio Chicken with Honey-Mustard Sauce. Taking from the full range of Jewish tradition, whether East European Ashkenazi or Middle Eastern Sephardi, all the festival family favorites are provided, whether it's Hamantaschen for Purim, Latkes for Hanukah or the Sephardic Farina Cake used to break the Yom Kippur Fast. With wonderful full-color photos throughout the volume, this beautifully designed book provides the full range of recipes to carry the Jewish cook through the year.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Universe (January 14, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0883636034
• ISBN-13: 978-0883636039
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 8.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,179,651 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than 'Kosher by Design', January 4, 2007

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This review is from: Hadassah Jewish Holiday Cookbook (Hardcover)

I ordered this book with a few other kosher cookbooks and found that this book was the best out of all of them. The recipies are delicious at very straight forward. I found them more stimulating to actually make, as I enjoy complex recipies. Not all the recipies are complex. In fact, most of them are simple. This was definately a good buy!

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Non Cooking Rabbi Gives This 5 Stars, April 16, 2003

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This review is from: Hadassah Jewish Holiday Cookbook (Hardcover)

I am not a cook. I am a rabbi who cannot cook. In fact, it is dangerous to put me in the kitchen. This book though is not just a great cookbook. It is an incredible historical read. If I could cook I probably would give it ten stars. Remarkable, unique, different, poignant, profound are just some of the words that describe this cookbook. Joan Michel came up with a briliant idea. The contributors from Hadassah Magazine's readership tapped into some resovoir of knowledge and history and produced a profound souffle of goodness, down- home historical family recipes filled with the holiness and history of the ages. This one is more than a keeper, it is a gift giver to all your friends.

Rabbi Yehudah Fine
Times Square Rabbi-Finding the Hope in Lost Kids' Lives
Yehudahfine.com

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hadassah Jewish Holiday Cookbook-Edited by Joan Michel, August 8, 2003

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This review is from: Hadassah Jewish Holiday Cookbook (Hardcover)

This is an excellent book for the preparation of fine
Kosher dishes. For instance, the authors explain how to prepare
Yosi's Israeli Salad, Esroq cookies and Biblical Kugel- to mention just a few of the fine preparations. Biblical Kugel is prepared with sugar cinnamon, cloves, oil, ginger, raisins, figs, almonds and brandy (optional). The book depicts the
layout of the dish so that readers have a visual model in order
to prepare the food for family and guests. Lastly, there is
an extensive presentation of Kosher offerings appropriate for
almost every dining experience imaginable.